THE CORONA AMBUSH

The Aids drama uncovered the hypocrisy of the Judeo-Christian machine.

The Corona virus crisis highlights the brazen arrogance of the ruling institutional fabric worldwide. In America, the foolish indifference of an ignorant president is a given.

The more spectacular consequences don't need further comment, since they are for all to endure. The health care foundation is being investigated were it exists and called for where it is amiss. The crisis tests further the cultural demeanor of liberal societies and the mettle of governments and larger institutions like the EU.

As much as a dormant disease might wake up under strain, a deluding economy might rupture and become a wreck in need of rescue. The current financial and economic malaise is the offspring of both the Corona virus and of the choices made by the wizards who are en vogue in this White House.

Suddenly, the crocodile tears shed for China's misfortunes look spent for the wrong cause. These tears came back to haunt the learned and the prejudiced who end up begging the Chinese for masks. 

The almost permanent adjustments being made betray a need for a more pro-active global policy. The WHO as much as the ECB , the EU and Washington, appear to be ill-prepared, taken hostage by various interest groups and pharmaceutical lobbies.

The many measures which are decided in Europe vary from country to country, as if immaterial borders were able to halt material mayhem. Trump created, as usual, an "Us against Them" fabrication,  sparing some (friendly to the president) and penalizing most (Shengen travel ban ). One would expect such an alarming situation to bring out the better existential impulses in leaders. Obviously it is naive to expect all to be generous and compassionate, since not all have it in them.