Will coronavirus kill New World Order? | Buchanan
Dr. Brian Monahan, attending physician
of Congress, told a closed meeting of Senate staffers this week that 70
million to 150 million Americans — a third of the nation — could
contract the coronavirus. Dr. Anthony Fauci testified that the mortality
rate for COVID-19 will likely run near 1%.
Translation: Between 750,000 and 1.1 million Americans may die of this disease before it runs its course. The latter figure is equal to all the U.S. dead in World War II and on both sides in the Civil War.
Chancellor
Angela Merkel warns that 70% of Germany's population — 58 million
people — could contract the coronavirus. If she is right, and Fauci's
mortality rate holds for her country, that could mean more than half a
million dead Germans.
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Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis called Merkel's
remark "unhelpful" and said it could cause panic. But Harvard
epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch seemed to support Merkel, saying between
40% and 70% of the world's population could become infected.
Again, if Fauci's 1% mortality rate and Lipsitch's estimate prove on target, between 3 billion and 5 billion people on earth will be infected, and 30 million to 50 million will die, a death toll greater than that of the Spanish Flu of 1918.
There is, however, some contradictory news. China, with 81,000 cases, has noted a deceleration in new cases and South Korea appears to be gradually containing the spread of the virus. Yet, Italy, with its large elderly population, may be a harbinger of what is to come in the West.
In the U.S., the death toll at this writing is 39, a
tiny fraction of the annual toll of tens of thousands who die of the
flu. But the problem is this: COVID-19 has not nearly run its course in
the U.S., while the reaction in society and the economy approaches what
we might expect from a boiling national disaster.
The
stock market has plunged further and faster than it did in the Great
Crash of 1929. Trillions of dollars in wealth have vanished. If Sen.
Bernie Sanders does not like "millionaires and billionaires," he should
be pleased. There are far fewer of them today than there were when he
won the New Hampshire primary.
What does the future hold? It may one day be said that
the coronavirus delivered the deathblow to the New World Order, to a
half-century of globalization, and to the era of interdependence of the
world's great nations.
Tourism,
air travel, vacation cruises, international gatherings and festivals
are already shutting down. Travel bans between countries and continents
are being imposed. Conventions, concerts and sporting events are being
canceled. Will the Tokyo Olympics go forward? If they do, will all the
anticipated visitors from abroad come to Japan to enjoy the games? Trump
has issued a one-month travel ban on Europe.
As for the "open borders" crowd, do Democrats still
believe that breaking into our country should no longer be a crime, and
immigrants arriving illegally should be given free health care, a
proposition to which all the Democratic debaters raised their hands?
The ideological roots of our free trade era can be traced to the
mid-19th century when its great evangelist, Richard Cobden, rose at Free
Trade Hall in Manchester on Jan. 15, 1846, and rhapsodized:
"I
see in the Free Trade principle that which shall act on the moral world
as the principle of gravitation in the universe — drawing men together,
thrusting aside the antagonism of race, and creed, and language, and
uniting us in the bonds of eternal peace."
In the
pre-Trump era, Republicans held hands with liberal Democrats in
embracing NAFTA, GATT, the WTO and most-favored-nation trade privileges
for China. In retrospect, was it wise to have relied on China to produce
essential parts for the supply chains of goods vital to our national
security?
Does it appear wise to have moved the production of
pharmaceuticals and lifesaving drugs for heart disease, strokes and
diabetes to China? Does it appear wise to have allowed China to develop a
virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals crucial to the development of
weapons for our defense?
In this coronavirus
pandemic, people now seem to be looking for authoritative leaders and
nations seem to be looking out for their own peoples first. Would
Merkel, today, invite a million Syrian refugees into Germany no matter
the conditions under which they were living in Syria and Turkey?
Is
not the case now conclusive that we made a historic mistake when we
outsourced our economic independence to rely for vital necessities upon
nations that have never had America's best interests at heart?
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