Noam Chomsky: Coronavirus – What is at stake?

- corona virus was easily solvable as demonstrated by south korea, taiwan and china, but market failures cause by emasculated public institutions and companies more interested in selling consumer products exacerbated the crisis

- we are very dangerously closer to midnight on the doomsday clock (90 sec away) and seems the implication is because of the volatile situation in south asia (it seems he was implying india and pakistan?) caused by many things including climate change, and strongman leaders who also have no idea what they are doing (trump/boris) in the uk and us

- south asia is on its way to becoming unlivable, as certain areas last year reached upwards of 50 degrees centigrade; with continuously rising temps and increasing droughts this will only exacerbate tensions as time goes on

- we will get through the corona virus, but if sometching isn’t done about global inequality, the slow collapse of democracy around the world, and finally climate/environmental crisis, we will not “get though” it

- we are stuck in the ideology of markets and markets only, where private profit, not not societal needs are considered, and we need to break out of this ideology if we want to survive the coming crisis post-corona

- if there is anything positive to come out of this corona virus, it’s that people take the time to think about and act on what type of world do they want to live in, do we want to continue the same path towards destruction, or will we de-atomize ourselves and start to come together to face the looming problems (which are surmountable if we work together and pool our resources as people and countries)

.... that’s not verbatim of course, but my interpretation of what noam was saying