Whenever a conversation turns to the coronavirus, someone always says that the spread of the pretty infectious pellet was primarily driven by globalization. Of course, the world existed long before people globalized it, which means that companies from Bavaria, for example, have production facilities in India or Bangladesh, or citizens from North Rhine-Westphalia go on vacation to South America and people around the world eat or drink the same thing - pizza or cola. Globalization means that you can fly anywhere and move everything there. Money and culture as well as viruses or other pathogens. It is therefore reasonable to suspect that the global flight connections have lured the virus out of the reserve. However, the opposite is probably the case: globalization is helping people to contain coronavirus.
To understand this, you only have to think of pandemics from the past. They already existed in the form of the plague in the Middle Ages, when there were no airplanes with passengers that could spread the pathogen, a bacterium at the time, and infect people. According to historians, the only time when people were not plagued by an epidemic is known as the Stone Age. But nobody in the whole world wants to go back there. Since people have been living in a globalized world, epidemics have not increased; on the contrary, they have decreased. And when they do occur, they have less destructive potential because there is an international scientific community whose representatives exchange information with each other worldwide and can therefore deliver results surprisingly quickly - even if they are not always the ones people expect. Most people don't want to know what the virus looks like. They want to know how to kill it and bring it down in infected people. Of course, it may be that a vaccine will save the day. But it is also possible that the real danger to the world will only become apparent when people start to greedily and ruthlessly grab the cure and let others die. Globalization has nothing to do with this.
