How can an object with the smallest virus topple the global economy, paralyze sprawling cities and affect the details of the lives of billions of people? Geographer Michel Lusso confirms that the new superconducting Corona virus is caused by globalization, according to Agence France-Presse.
Why didn't epidemics close to us in time such as the 1957 and 1968 flu (more than a million deaths each) lead to the same paralysis in the world?
Simply because the world has changed in the last 60 years. We are already aware that what we call the world is one interconnected space through which there are dense connections and connections.
A small order afflicting a first patient in China at the end of 2019 caused the largest global paralysis in human history. There is a disparity between the size of the virus and the extent of its effect, and between the panic and paralysis that dominated the world.
Why this difference?
The main explanation is due to the fact that globalization has changed the planet Earth in the last sixty years. The reason for the development of this small infection and its transformation into a global crisis is the links between all matters and individuals.
With a mobile phone, I am able to be in contact with anyone else who owns a mobile phone, that is, five to six billion people. The commodity is connected to all other merchandise via communication systems.
What is remarkable is the speed of the pandemic. In less than three months she paralyzed the world. This is due to the generalization of ties and communication between all the factors that make up the world: the movement of the Chinese, Europeans and Americans for economic and tourism reasons. The virus reflects the map of transfers and the map of economic and tourism ties. Today, a carrier of the virus can travel thousands of kilometers and transmit the disease to dozens of people.
With around-the-clock news provisioning systems and social media, any little news quickly envelops the entire world.
There is no doubt that the real-time follow-up to the pandemic has greatly amplified its impact.
People who have an emerging risk from the emerging coronavirus have an unresolved immune response called a "cytokine storm." And if we want to use a metaphor, we can say that through continuous reading of news and social networks, the world knows an unbridled immune response. The cytokine storm globally is the abundance of information. Information and news pour on us, and the world exaggerates its reaction compared to what it is actually affecting.
How do you explain that the virus is able to affect different fields?
When an individual becomes ill, he is limited to the local and home dimension. As for his city, it is also quarantined. And Europe as well. There is also a change in international relations. More than four billion people find themselves blocked, and this includes the entire world.
The epidemic encompasses everything from the wider space represented by the entire earth to the narrow space of facing the individual's body of the virus. This synchronization is remarkable. Here, too, news and social media play a role.
The only solution can be to stop following the news networks and enter into a double stone by staying at home while severing any relationship with the outside.