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Very one-sided take on globalization. Unless every country would completely close their borders the virus would have eventually spread everywhere anyway. While
by jcfrei 7y ago
Very one-sided take on globalization. Unless every country would completely close their borders the virus would have eventually spread everywhere anyway. While medical equipment is temporarily out of stock in some countries, globalization also guarantees that eventually each country will have access to the necessary equipment. Imagine living without global trade and expecting Afghanistan to create an industry for ventilators in a couple of months.
- malandrew 7y agoYou're taking the other extreme and doing what you accuse the other person of doing: a one sided take. Backpedaling on globalization doesn't necessarily have to mean going back to no globalization. It just means now being away for the drawbacks and accounting for them. No every country doesn't need to produce their own medical equipment, but enough will that consider it important to do so and have the internal demand to support it and that will create supply-chain optionality for those that don't produce their own supplies. Every country that doesn't manufacturer their own equipment and supplies will be far better off when they have several countries they can source from.