Who Should We Blame for Covid-19?

In the olden days, the world was divided into the ‘developed’ countries and the ‘underdeveloped’ countries, the latter thanks to Donald Trump, also known as the ‘sh*thole countries.”

And while China is no longer considered underdeveloped, it is still not a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) which consists of 38 countries which together comprise what we consider to be the ‘developed’ world today.

The first confirmed case of Covid-19 appeared in the United States in January,2020. By February, cases and deaths were being reported throughout Europe, and by March, the CDC began issuing guidelines for controlling public meetings with 50 people or less. We all know what happened after that.

Remember a virus called Ebola? This pathogen had been floating around Central Africa from at least the 1970’s, but it became a virulent epidemic and then pandemic in 2013, with more than 11,000 deaths reported by 2016.

We were very lucky with that one because clamping down on travel and trade between the United States and West Africa had little or no impact on the economies of either place. As near as we can tell, there were only two confirmed cases and one Ebola death in the United States even though the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Ebola to be a global health emergency in 2019.