[Devongone]

If the virus hadn't first surfaced in China and if China, due to it's economic influence in Africa, did not dominate the World Health Organisation, would the response have been to lock down the world? A totalitarian command economy can survive a lockdown because it is an integral part of the state. Free market economies, even under democratic socialists, have given you the clue on the tin. Their freedom is not only the freedom to generate huge profits, it is also the freedom to crash and burn. Treated as if they were part of a command economy free markets are ill-equipped to survive. Yet the whole world is trying to be China, because the death of either ourselves or a loved one is deemed more important than our whole way of life.

We think the world is dying of the virus. But we are killing it out of love and a fear of dying.