The disease has shown that there is more that unites us as human beings than that which divides us through artificial borders
have caused the disruption of human society on a global scale. The disease does not discriminate against its victims on the basis of nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, culture, religion or affluence and it has fuelled global pandemonium.
It was the interconnectedness of the world that enabled Covid-19 to spread like wildfire across the planet, as planes and ships traversed the skies and oceans. A state-centric response to contain its spread and confine its ability to spread was a necessary course of action, according to all the medical and research experts who were involved in diagnosing the epidemiology of the disease. , however, are but only a short-term palliative towards the goal of disrupting the spread of Covid-19.
Since the beginning of February 2020, more than 300 medical research papers on the virus have been deposited on Prior to the emergence of Covid-19 on the global stage, there was a resurgence of ethnic nationalism and racial chauvinism in a number of countries around the world. The disease has, however, now brought into stark reality the fact that there is much more that unites us as human beings, than that which divides us through artificial borders and false narratives about the “other”.
Covid-19 is also having an effect on global culture, specifically in the way human beings now have to relate to each other through physical distancing.
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