Globalism changes this equation. Two hundred years ago, a virus that quickly kills its hosts would burn out before it could be transmitted to the next town. Now that virus can be halfway across the world in less than a day.
For the citizens of Western nations, there is almost nothing good about globalism.
Not really. Highly contagious viruses like smallpox could still travel on the entire Earth pretty easily, I mean yeah ok it takes weeks instead of days, but in the end it doesn't change anything once it's there, you're just delaying the inevitable. I believe almost all civilizations had the flu or similar virus, as long as they did any commerce with any other society.
Our hygiene and quality of life is magnitudes higher than any other point in human history, that alone has been the real savior.
While globalism may make the virus more dangerous while it evolves to ultimately not be deadly, it doesn't prevent it from evolving to that inevitability. Everyone in the world may have the virus, but the virus will still evolve to not be deadly.
Globalism changes this equation. Two hundred years ago, a virus that quickly kills its hosts would burn out before it could be transmitted to the next town. Now that virus can be halfway across the world in less than a day.
For the citizens of Western nations, there is almost nothing good about globalism.
Not really. Highly contagious viruses like smallpox could still travel on the entire Earth pretty easily, I mean yeah ok it takes weeks instead of days, but in the end it doesn't change anything once it's there, you're just delaying the inevitable. I believe almost all civilizations had the flu or similar virus, as long as they did any commerce with any other society. Our hygiene and quality of life is magnitudes higher than any other point in human history, that alone has been the real savior.
While globalism may make the virus more dangerous while it evolves to ultimately not be deadly, it doesn't prevent it from evolving to that inevitability. Everyone in the world may have the virus, but the virus will still evolve to not be deadly.