pandemic 2

PANDEMIC!
that recognizes interdependence and the primacy
of evidence-based collective action is being born.
What now still predominates is the stance of “every country
for itself”:
there are national bans on exports of key products
such as medical supplies, with countries
falling back on their own analysis of the crisis
amid localized shortages and haphazard, primitive
approaches to containment. 3
The coronavirus epidemic does not signal just the limit
of the market globalization, it also signals the even more
fatal limit of nationalist populism which insists on full
state sovereignty: it’s over with “America (or whoever)
first!” since America can be saved only through global
coordination and collaboration. I am not a utopian here,
I don’t appeal to an idealized solidarity between people—
on the contrary, the present crisis demonstrates clearly
how global solidarity and cooperation is in the interest
of the survival of all and each of us, how it is the only
rational egotist thing to do. And it’s not just coronavirus:
3. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/08/
the-coronavirus-outbreak-shows-us-that-no-one-can-take-onthis-enemy-alone.
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