Coronavirus as ‘disease of globalization’ inflicting elites on the less fortunate
Coronavirus traces its origins to the “vectors of globalization,” a Yale University historian said. The Wuhan coronavirus pandemic is threatening the globalist worldview of free movement of people and free trade, Frank Snowden said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal The virus, Snowden said, “is emphatically a disease of globalization.” “Respiratory viruses tend to be socially indiscriminate in whom they infect,” Snowden said. “Yet because of its origins in the vectors of globalization, the coronavirus appears to have affected the elite in a high-profile way. From Tom Hanks to Boris Johnson, people who travel frequently or are in touch with travelers have been among the first to get…