The COVID-19 pandemic serves as a reality check on globalisation and wanton consumerism
The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the folly in how entire generations had been indoctrinated in the concepts of hooking up to the bigger global market rather than maintaining local self-sufficiency. Even the United States with its decades-long wanton “outsourcing” binge ultimately shot itself in the foot. It created manufacturing powerhouses like China that are now racking…