The coronavirus’s flight throughout the world at lightning speed, has exposed the overall void in collective management at the global level. Three months into the disastrous war stated by an undetectable, nearly invincible infection, that is rapidly demolishing human lives, despite citizenship and race, and contemptuously damaging economies across continents, there is yet no extensive, collective strategy, managed by global leaders, to fight this horror.
The G20 has simply had a virtual conference, we understand, at the prodding of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It is motivating to discover that the G20 leaders have accepted inject $5-trillion into the world economy to partially counter the terrible financial effect of the pandemic. This is certainly great news. Taking collective ownership to fight a global war against the infection will need a lot more than composing cheques.
Great war, bad enemy
World leaders are obviously overwhelmed with their own nationwide challenges and do not appear inclined to view the pandemic as a typical enemy versus mankind, which it is. China postponed reporting the infection to the World Health Organisation (WHO), and maybe, while doing so, contributed to the worsening of the spread of the virus across the globe. It was reported that the Trump administration did not even inform the European Union before it turned off flights from Europe. It should be acknowledged that the effort taken by Mr. Modi in the early days to convene a meeting of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation nations stands out in contrast to the pusillanimous management worldwide.
There is no evidence that, at the international level, the pandemic has actually abated yet and would be brought under control quickly. To envision that nations would be able to tame the virus soon with huge shutdowns might be simply wishful thinking. National shutdowns and physical distancing have been a challenge not just in the Unied States and some European countries, it would be more so in populated nations such as India. At any rate, such lockouts come at massive economic and social expenses. As long as the infection is alive in some corner of the world, it would resume its travel throughout the world the moment worldwide travel limitations are relaxed. Is it sensible to think of that international travel will stay suspended till the last virus alive on this world is snuffed out? Epidemiologists mention that unless herd immunity establishes– which will take long and come at the expense of a minimum of half the population being contaminated– the virus will remain alive and strike whenever there is a lowering of guard.
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