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Coronavirus
Is More Than a Health Disaster – It’s a Human
Calamity
By Peter
Koenig
April 03,
2020 "Information
Clearing House"
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The New York Times of March 20, asks
rhetorically –
“Is
Our Fight Against Coronavirus Worse Than the
Disease?”
A Public
Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)
in relation to China’s novel
coronavirus (2019-nCoV) categorized as a
viral pneumonia.
was declared by
WHO’s Director General, Dr. Tedros on 30 January
2020, when outside of China there were only 150
WHO-registered infections.
This
declaration – nowhere justified – has devastating
effects on the entire world population and the
world’s socioeconomic fabric. The globe is literally
on lock-down, until – who knows – but the latest
date put forward by President Trump is 12 April
2020. It can almost be taken for granted that the
date will have global validity. The world at large
dances to the tune of the United States.
Some ten
days ago, Mr. Trump declared, that this “situation”
is enough and that it is time to get the economy
working again. He is a business man and knows best.
He suggested March 30 for going back to work. He
then must have gotten instructions from his
higher-ups, that more time was needed – this is just
my guess – to prepare whatever sinister plan is in
the making. So, he postponed by two weeks the
“back-to-normal” day.
The
coronavirus, COVID-19, has a catastrophic impact on
the world, on the population, on the economy, and
most importantly on the livelihoods of about a
quarter of the world population, who are at the
margin or below the level of vulnerability and
precariousness.
Without work, even occasional, hourly or daily work
to make some money to buy food, these people are
doomed – doomed to die from disease, famine or sheer
neglect. Their disappearance will be
unnoticed. They are the non-people.
This fake
global public health emergency (January 30) was
imposed on almost every country of the 193 UN
members. It is “fake”, because when it was declared,
as said before, there were only 150 cases outside of
China, in a population of 6.4 billion people.
This is by
no stretch of imagination a pandemic. (While the
PHEIC was declared on January 30th, the pandemic was
casually confirmed by the WHO Director General on
March 11)
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