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Science, medicine, the bureaucracy, and the politicians of the Western world are overwhelmed. In the end, paradoxically, the big winner will be the country from which the pandemic started: China, a dictatorial surveillance state that is ruthless towards its citizens and strategically plans its growth. Even the outcome of next week’s US elections, from an international point of view, is not really “decisive.” Corona changes the power blocks. The economic impact of the pandemic will hit the United States less strongly than Europe. There is a threat of social unrest around the world.
Another blockade, which makes many politicians and administrators in a bad mood. Shouldn’t the summer have been used for better preparations? Yes, sure! But, curiously, the development is the same in almost all countries. The local government is doing (this time even coordinated with Germany) what everyone else is doing: using brute force methods to curb the rapidly increasing number of infections and not overload hospitals; it’s threateningly close. We are now in the middle of the predicted “hammer and dance” pattern and will temporarily have the infection process under control (like Israel) until the third wave arrives, which is probably weaker. At least that’s how it was with the Spanish flu.
Even if one rightly considers the individual measures to be completely excessive (all restaurants close during the day too!) Or too mild (why not extend the fall school break by four days?): Unfortunately, there is no model for better practices. In a democracy, entire cities cannot be cordoned off when 20 cases emerge, as has been successfully practiced in China. New Zealand? We are not a remote island. Even people who securely deposit their data to Facebook & Co. have faced the storm against digital contact tracking (Stop Corona App). If it were to risk mass deaths (as was initially done in Sweden and England), our government can abdicate immediately. Disconnecting from the international trend also means that you are branded as an outsider like Sweden with travel advisories (which Austria cannot afford). Therefore, in the end, only the “medieval” measurements remain. The so-called “homo deus” has to make sacrifices to a virus. Our world is much more unstable than we thought it was until recently, probably with other threats as well.
