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The Crumbling Global Tower
[PJ Media] Although COVID deaths in Europe and North America are down, thanks to the availability of vaccines and growing herd immunity, the long shadow of the pandemic still hangs over the international order. The "fragile states" are reeling not only from the disease but from the lockdowns and fall in economic activity.North Korea, the world’s only self-proclaimed coronavirus-free nation, said it was facing a "grave" viral incident and a "tense" food situation. This was seen by the BBC as an admission it is in real trouble. Meanwhile, "Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere, has earned another grim distinction: it’s the only one that hasn’t vaccinated a single resident against Covid-19," writes Bloomberg. "Haiti was among the 92 poor and middle-income countries offered doses under the Covax Facility. But the government initially declined AstraZeneca PLC shots, citing side effects and widespread fears in the population." ...The "international community," already hard-pressed by its own domestic concerns, is in no mood to donate more aid, send troops, or accept more refugees from the Caribbean, the Middle East, North Africa, or Afghanistan. The well is running dry. Even before the latest trouble, the left-wing Nation wrote: "Haiti Has Been Abandoned—by the Media, the US, and the World." It underscores how deep the fatigue is: when the media gives up, who’s left? Hanging like a cloud over the future of the "global world" is the question of the pandemic’s origin and whether — or when — a similar crisis might be due. The BBC’s preview of the intelligence community’s 90-day report to Joe Biden on the disease’s origins suggests it may be inconclusive. "There is no definitive piece of evidence — no Covid-positive bat or a confirmed first human case — to show conclusively how it started." We know how it started - the Wonderful Wizards of Wuhan institute begrudged the necessary funds for bio-security for their bio-weapons lab. And then the super-humanitarian wizards of China's ruling clique went out of their way to spread it to the rest of the World. ...We don’t know anything definite, but Dr. Zeynep Tufekci, writing in the New York Times, noted that a Chinese lab accident started a pandemic once before—the 1977 H1N1 "Russian flu," which, fortunately, killed only 700,000 people worldwide. ...With this question unlikely to be resolved publicly, at least for years if not decades, a new era of uncertainty dawns over the West. Even the Washington Post has stopped pretending we’re going back to "normal." "The economy isn’t going back to February 2020. Fundamental shifts have occurred," and not in a good way. ...More likely this could be the end of the old global world, the vanished landscape of old norms that Joe Biden was supposed to restore. Neither social media nor Hollywood could save it. It died under the rise of China, the corruption of Washington, the stasis of Europe, and the madness of Woke culture. COVID, when it came, was simply the coup de grace for the whole teetering edifice. We are emerging from the pandemic, not by the door through which we entered, but into an unfamiliar landscape. The only good news is that Chinese failed to produce a domestic vaccine - which (IMO) is the only thing that can keep them for doing something like this again, only this time deliberately. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-07-14 |
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