Common Enemies
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Common Enemies
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#2I don't buy it. A crisis that causes the world's countries to isolate themselves from each other does not stimulate cooperation. In fact I'd argue the opposite - it highlights the downsides of a cooperative world with open borders and open markets. I'm not making a value judgement here, just that this will probably result in the opposite of what the article implies.
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#3In the meantime, countries are closing their borders and isolating more than even the most regressive and backwards-looking people could have dreamed of a year ago. Almost no country has a response plan that has anything to do with any other country at all. As an American abroad, it honestly feels like I'm trapped between waiting on uncertain visa extensions and being forced headfirst into the pandemic by returning home.
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#4In the meantime, countries are closing their borders and isolating more than even the most regressive and backwards-looking people could have dreamed of a year ago. Almost no country has a response plan that has anything to do with any other country at all. As an American abroad, it honestly feels like I'm trapped between waiting on uncertain visa extensions and being forced headfirst into the pandemic by returning h…
> anything to do with any other country at all
Virus spread is inherently a local problem. Are you imaging Xi should order American restaurants closed? The best China can do is watch out for themselves, warn others, and send masks once supply allows.
Closed borders is more about ensuring people do not flee with the virus in-tow.
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#5"field of race relations"....
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#6"field of race relations"....
"Racial equality – though far from perfect – surged"...
very far from perfect.
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#7I don't buy it. A crisis that causes the world's countries to isolate themselves from each other does not stimulate cooperation. In fact I'd argue the opposite - it highlights the downsides of a cooperative world with open borders and open markets. I'm not making a value judgement here, just that this will probably result in the opposite of what the article implies.
It's not just the countries. Even individuals are isolating more than ever. That's probably the best defense we have against the proliferation of the virus. If done in tandem by everyone, it might be the best ever co-ordinated exercise ever carried out by humankind.
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#8This is a beautiful analysis, no less so because it overlooks that, in World War II, the enemy was tangible and knowable in ways that a virus is not.
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#9Did he invent that Voltaire quote? I can't find a source for it anywhere.
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#10In the meantime, countries are closing their borders and isolating more than even the most regressive and backwards-looking people could have dreamed of a year ago. Almost no country has a response plan that has anything to do with any other country at all. As an American abroad, it honestly feels like I'm trapped between waiting on uncertain visa extensions and being forced headfirst into the pandemic by returning h…
> anything to do with any other country at all Virus spread is inherently a local problem. Are you imaging Xi should order American restaurants closed? The best China can do is watch out for themselves, warn others, and send masks once supply allows. Closed borders is more about ensuring people do not flee with the virus in-tow.
Wow, we have come so far from the Ebola response that it has literally become inconceivable there would be more active international cooperation. This doesn't bode well.