A global problem is one that has a global reach. A universal problem is one that affects and is affected by everyone involved in a system. When you have a globally universal problem, like a pandemic, you have a problem that requires everyone on the planet to be on the same page following the same protocol.
It is like driving. In the "globe" of traffic, EVERYONE needs to follow the same basic driving protocols and obey the same traffic rules/signs. Otherwise, many many accidents. See:
The Early Wild Days of Urban Automotive Traffic
With a highly contagious virus traveling globally via cars, public transit, trains, planes, and sailing ships, we have a very global manifestation of a very universal problem. We also have a nearly unanimous lack of agreement between nations, states, corporations, their employees, small businesses, their employees, state, municipal and county governments, religions, sports clubs, bridge clubs, billy clubs...
With a highly contagious virus traveling globally via cars, public transit, trains, planes, and sailing ships, we have a very global manifestation of a very universal problem. We also have a nearly unanimous lack of agreement between nations, states, corporations, their employees, small businesses, their employees, state, municipal and county governments, religions, sports clubs, bridge clubs, billy clubs...
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People need to eat:
"South Africa has started to gradually loosen its strict coronavirus lockdown, allowing some industries to reopen after five weeks of restrictions that plunged its struggling economy deeper into turmoil.The economy of Africa's most industrialised nation was already teetering when the lockdown kicked in on March 27 to contain the spread of infections."
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On what is practical:
Backwards into the Future
"Lockdowns can’t last forever, people are social animals. Also, lockdowns don’t solve the problem, that’s not their goal; they merely buy you time. Would you say we have used that time wisely? Would you say it’s safe now to put less distance between people, who are for all intents and purposes potential hosts for a lethal virus?"
Raul Ilargi of The Automatic Earth
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Also: Why apex predators should be an elite minority not a 7-billion-plus-and-growing planetary hive colony:
March of the Locusts: Individuals Start Moving to Avoid Cannibalism
Will we achieve the miracle of globally universal cooperation along careful guidelines? Nuh-uh.
Have we used wisely what we hopefully have learned from our confused, inconsistent, and generally too little too late lockdowns? Nuh-uh.
Are we immune to cannibalism? I'm not gonna answer that question. I'll let this guy do that:
Are we immune to cannibalism? I'm not gonna answer that question. I'll let this guy do that:
The above picture is from an article titled: Should I Wear A Mask In Public? ... whose headline says it all: complete lack of consolidated response aka solidarity, cooperation, unity...
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P.S. William Gibson famousl;y said, "The future is already here just not evenly distributed."
I'll add that the future for humanity at present is a serious reduction in material abundance, population, comfort, mutually agreed upon order and, in general life as we know it. To paraphrase Gibson: 'The end of the (human) world is alrready here, just unevenly distributed.' We are now experiencing a major distribution thereof that should smooth out that uneven distribution Gibson mentioned.
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