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That in 2020, at the height of human civilization, with sophisticated tracking technologies, accessible healthcare like never before in history, and a global information network capable of traveling around the world ten times in the blink of an eye, one million people could die in less than a year from a flu-like virus It was a perspective that only existed in dystopian novels, at least until a few months ago. That this virus did not distinguish between rich and poor and reached the heart of the richest metropolises on the planet, causing the total closure of cities such as New York, London or Madrid, which forced billions of children around the world to give up education for at least a quarter, plunging the world into an economic crisis never before seen, which even threatened to change forever some of our long-established habits , perhaps not even in the pen of the most visionary writers.
But that’s where we are now. With the weight of a million deaths that we have not been able to avoid. With a vaccine we wait like the Messiah. With the threat of an autumn in which the lethal mix between the seasonal flu and the plague of the third millennium brings with it new blockades, new economic collapses, new work emergencies, to avoid the collapse of all health systems. With geopolitical and economic assets victims of a reorganization and destabilization whose effects will last for years, if not decades. With a new normal composed of social distances, zero privacy, control of behavior in the public sphere that is here to stay.
The world has lost the battle against Covid-19 because it has let a small virus define its futureNot even the Spanish flu and AIDS, which also have 50 and an estimated 32 million deaths on the bulletin board. He lost, because he found himself fragile, unable to predict the effects of the war that this little enemy would unleash on him. He lost, because like an outdated operating system with a computer virus, he let himself be used by that enemy, allow globalization to spread throughout the world, allow the interconnection of the media to spread fear, and allow economic sectors to infect each other as if a gigantic domino were woven.
We don’t know what will happen tomorrow. If what we will attend is a process of progressive deglobalization, with the overwhelming return of borders and nations to define the future of the world. If the new balances between the superpowers will be decided by who first reaches the vaccine and can distribute it to the world, and if democracy proves to be a limit to achieve this goal. We do not know if this pandemic will have been only the foretaste of a world from now on dominated by microbiological and bacteriological wars, whether the research will focus from now on the production of new lethal viruses or their vaccines, whether the pandemic risk will be the great global deterrent to a new cold war of the 21st century, as was the nuclear one of the 20th century.
We don’t know, but we should print one thing on our heads. That the only way to avoid the most dangerous of the ridges, in which we find ourselves now, is part of the collective assumption of a new consciousness: that this pandemic has been nothing more than a great exercise in how we will face the next great global crisis that will fall on us, that of global warming and climate change, of the management of its devastating effects, of the necessary and radical changes in our way of living and producing.
We will win, only if we learn the only lesson we need to learn from this pandemic, that Only with interdependence and collaboration among nations around the world can a global battle be won., and that the collective effort to change one’s development model is only possible if it starts earlier, if the Apocalypse is not expected to manifest. If, on the contrary, we try to preserve as much as possible what exists and to benefit from the misfortunes of others, if not above all we will understand that these million deaths are more the result of our inertia than of a small and devastating virus, then let’s get ready. It will get much worse before it gets better.
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