The Adhoc Thinker

The Covid-19 crisis, caused by the affluent elite, is hurting the poor unequally. As the initial shock of the Coronavirus crisis is passing the blame game has started, with China and the US trading insults and the WHO caught in the middle… countercurrents.org Beyond high level political polemics, there is a growing realisation that this crisis is not affecting people equally and that the economic order of things is undergoing rapid change. Undoubtedly the speed of the global spread of the pandemic has been facilitated by a globe-trotting elite. They represent the living face of the globalization of both production and consumption that is as central to economic growth as it has been to ecological decline and viral spread. Reams of paper have been consumed describing the heroic efforts and risks taken by doctors and nurses, with belated recognition of the sacrifices made, for very low pay, by carers and delivery couriers. However, in our rush to buy loo roll we have forg