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.
Not so. Pandemics travelled around the world before globalization. The black death, smallpox in the americas, syphllis.
This just increases the speed.
Under a less intertwined system, this likely would have spread heavily within each area, and that area would have little info form outside on what to do. Every place a potential Wuhan.
i hope many travel restrictions become permanent. ban cruises, make tourism difficult and expensive, cut off travel totally between the hemispheres. nature is being completely destroyed by human activity, this is an opportunity to reverse it.
Banning travel between large areas is ridiculous and wouldn't happen. Especially when a policy of quarantine during outbreaks would be equally effective with a vastly smaller cost.
PS: China’s case fatality rate broke 4%, though they likely undercounted cases by ~50% if not more.
I might have been unclear, but I was suggesting quarantine for everyone coming in, as an alternative to banning travel forever.
Quarantine set up once you already have an outbreak is uh, a different matter.
Saying they waited to long is true, but simply means it fails due to politics.
Edit: NM, misunderstood what you where referring to.
A total travel ban would also fail due to politics, so that's not a really helpful criteria.
Also, there's a lot more to environmental destruction than excess carbon.
Starting from the point of the great leap forward, yes there has been an improvement.