B. Zand calls for Global response (in Spiegel International), but without even mentioning the WHO (World Health Organization), which would be a key-player for a global response. Looking on the WHO-pages of the European Countries (by B. Zand called the "European Union Club"), which also show an European Health Information Initiative (EHII). But this EHII seems to be not active at all in the Covid-19 crisis in Western Europe, because there are no recent entries. This means that even in Europe the response to the Covid-19 disease is a national procedure. But although the Virus started in China, the Virus is a product of the modern world, the Coronoa-Culture is global and therefore B. Zand is correct: the response should be global. But the global society has yet not a global awareness and it has no sufficient global institutions. Both problems are related, but not the same.
Friday, March 20, 2020
Corona-Culture, the crisis of what society?
Is this Blog now about the new Corona-Virus? (Wikipedia has the "official" name and more background) No not really, it is still about Linguistics (Language) and Policy, but the discussion about the Corona-Virus is of eminant importance for mankind and it not only a medical discussion, but also and even foremost a discussion about the Communication of the Society. While "Communication" deserves (even more than) a post on its own, it is here Society, which calls attention, because of the Corona-Culture. While the new Virus originated in China, the roots of it and its rapid spreading are part of the global Corona-Culture, therefore simple China bashing as Trump (in Atlantic, by D. Frum) and S. Hamid (also an Atlantic-article) are doing it, is not showing responsible behaviour in times of the Corona-Culture. A. Applebaum (also Atlantic) calls the Virus 'America's bluff', which is likely is. But she is only comparing the US to Asian countries, it is not only a problem of the American society, it is a problem of Western societies in general. UK tried to react, by partly mitigating the Virus and then waiting for a Herd-immunity (Wp has more) to prevent spreading the virus long term, a strategy, called risky by specialists and various other stakeholders (2x Guardian). While also the government of the Netherlands seemed to consider Herds immunity as a part of measures against Covid-19 (Spiegel, in German), the German government never considered this. But Germany is also among the nations, which is hit hard by Covid-19, all Western European countries are seiously affected. But a display of the European situation is not possible, only a country by country situation is displayed by Covid 19 display of the Johns Hopkins University (picture below shows the situation 20/3/2020:
B. Zand calls for Global response (in Spiegel International), but without even mentioning the WHO (World Health Organization), which would be a key-player for a global response. Looking on the WHO-pages of the European Countries (by B. Zand called the "European Union Club"), which also show an European Health Information Initiative (EHII). But this EHII seems to be not active at all in the Covid-19 crisis in Western Europe, because there are no recent entries. This means that even in Europe the response to the Covid-19 disease is a national procedure. But although the Virus started in China, the Virus is a product of the modern world, the Coronoa-Culture is global and therefore B. Zand is correct: the response should be global. But the global society has yet not a global awareness and it has no sufficient global institutions. Both problems are related, but not the same.
B. Zand calls for Global response (in Spiegel International), but without even mentioning the WHO (World Health Organization), which would be a key-player for a global response. Looking on the WHO-pages of the European Countries (by B. Zand called the "European Union Club"), which also show an European Health Information Initiative (EHII). But this EHII seems to be not active at all in the Covid-19 crisis in Western Europe, because there are no recent entries. This means that even in Europe the response to the Covid-19 disease is a national procedure. But although the Virus started in China, the Virus is a product of the modern world, the Coronoa-Culture is global and therefore B. Zand is correct: the response should be global. But the global society has yet not a global awareness and it has no sufficient global institutions. Both problems are related, but not the same.
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