> The irony, it's the very definition of economic liberalism and what led to the current paradigm, globalism.
It doesn't mean it's the only path to a global economy.
> The pandemic is only global because trade is global and people can easily travel between countries.
The pandemic wouldn't be anywhere near as severe if there was a coordinated global response.
> the solution is to take back western industrial force from China
For that, you'll have to shut down economic liberalism, because otherwise the forces that caused the move of western industrial force into China will still be present, and will cause it again once the public forgets about the pandemic (i.e. in a year), and beancounters everywhere will be free to optimize the corporate balance sheets once again.
Even with China lying at the beginning of the pandemic, there were then whole two months when the rest of the world watched it spread and didn't do anything to protect themselves. The severity of the pandemic is not China's fault.
The rest of the world was acting with the (false) information that China, and the WHO, were putting out there - including that there was "no evidence of human-to-human" transmission. So perhaps when you say it's "not China's fault", this is technically true in the sense that it's the fault of the rest of us for taking what were obvious lies at face value.
At the end of January, it was obvious that it's a severely infectious disease. On 22th of January WHO agreed that there is evidence of human-to-human transmission[0]. By the end of January, the virus was in Italy. By mid-February, it was clear it's going to be a problem for the West. By the end of February, it was obvious to anyone with half a brain and access to a spreadsheet that this is going to be a devastating global pandemic unless swift and extreme actions are taken.
>At the end of January, it was obvious that it's a severely infectious disease.
>By mid-February, it was clear it's going to be a problem for the West.
Which I'm sure is why it took the WHO until March 11th to declare it a Pandemic. This entire timeline reads like a corporate CYA exercise. Which tracks, since it was created yesterday.
WHO claimed throughout that border restrictions were useless yet 80% of coronavirus cases in Canada on March 14th were directly connected to international travel. That's a whole incubation period after you say it was obviously going to be a problem.
Every time the Canadian government was asked why they weren't doing anything more, they would reply that they were following all WHO recommendations and WHO says no border closures.
Of course, it's impossible to tell what would have happened if WHO had recommended border closures but since they didn't, it's all on them.
It doesn't mean it's the only path to a global economy.
> The pandemic is only global because trade is global and people can easily travel between countries.
The pandemic wouldn't be anywhere near as severe if there was a coordinated global response.
> the solution is to take back western industrial force from China
For that, you'll have to shut down economic liberalism, because otherwise the forces that caused the move of western industrial force into China will still be present, and will cause it again once the public forgets about the pandemic (i.e. in a year), and beancounters everywhere will be free to optimize the corporate balance sheets once again.