Many of us, myself included, freely admit to benefits of an interconnected world with a productive China central to its success.
This virus and it’s spread, represent a HUGE cost. It thus seems entirely appropriate that we might name the virus after its first epicenter in Wuhan.
This virus and it’s spread, represent a HUGE cost. It thus seems entirely appropriate that we might name the virus after its first epicenter in Wuhan.
“Efficiency” has costs. Just-in-time inventory has costs. International trade has HUGE externalities as we’re seeing. Long supply chains have fragility as massive hidden risk.
We‘ve been led here by experts who must now realize they weren’t smarter than all those who dissented.
We‘ve been led here by experts who must now realize they weren’t smarter than all those who dissented.
I will not object if one day there is a Seattle virus. Or a New York Flu if that is appropriate. But we need to admit that geopolitical and economic interdependence is a mixed bag. This has to be a normal part of national dialog about costs & benefits of forgoing postnationalism.
