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+<p>With the current spread of the COVID-19 virus, we're currently seeing
+the consequences of our highly interconnected global society. What
+started out as a small outbreak in a province of China became a global
+epidemic in a matter of a few months.Currently, as is rational, the
+global focus is on treating the infected and finding a cure. However,
+the time will come when this crisis blows over and we will ask
+ourselves: how do we prevent this from happening again? Unfortunately, I
+fear that rather than trying to find a way to prevent similar incidents
+from occurring, we will simply attempt to find ways to mitigate future
+casualties. Because the one thing we must change in order to prevent
+future events like this would require a change in our way of life that
+would inconvenience us greatly; and if there is one thing our modern man
+cannot stand, it is to be inconvenienced. We must scale down our society
+from global, down to national, regional, and especially local. In
+effect, we must practice the principle of Subsidiarity.</p>
+
+<p>To talk about the solution, we must first clearly outline the
+problem: our societies have become globalized and are too
+interconnected. This has offered certain kinds of technological
+advancements to be made, as well as given us access to a larger variety
+of goods/services, it has driven down the prices of these in a global
+market, and it has improved our standard of living in the first world as
+we export our exploitation of labour to developing nations. But this
+comes at a grave cost. Rapid development of technology has caused man to
+become naïve, and begin to develop for development's sake rather than to
+serve an actual need. The access to foreign goods/services has caused
+certain sectors of our national economies to die off, the hindering of
+our national sovereignty, the specialization of our economies that makes
+us extremely vulnerable to the often random changes in the market. The
+low prices have destroyed entire industries in our countries, while
+favoring exploitation of workers in a developing nations where labour
+laws are either sparse or non-existent. Far from driving us towards a
+utopia of sorts, globalization has caused suffering, exploitation, and
+the destruction of domestic culture. However, many of us do not see
+these (with exception of the last), as we have exported these abroad
+where we can conveniently ignore them. As such, we exploit their
+nation's resources until they run dry, and while that country panics
+trying to find another industry to specialize in, we simply move on to
+the next country with resources to exploit.</p>
+
+<p>But with regards to our problem at hand, the COVID-19 epidemic,
+globalization has enabled the rapid spread of any kind of crisis from
+one nation to the next. When an epidemic breaks out in one country, it
+will inevitably reach all others who participate in this global society.
+When an economic crisis hits one country, it will inevitably affect all
+others who relied on that country for supply of certain specialized
+goods, or demand for others. Such interconnectivity has made us as a
+planet more weak and vulnerable. And the only way we can avoid similar
+problems from occurring again in the near future is to de-globalize our
+society, returning to a primarily local, regional, and national economy
+and way of life.</p>
+
+<p>However, as we can already guess, we are not going to do this. We are
+too stubborn and naïve to make any decisions that will truly help us
+prevent these crises. Instead, what you will see is a lot of talk, a few
+measures taken and protocols designated in order to mitigate the damage,
+but no attempt to truly solve the problem at hand.</p>
+
+<p>My suggestion: leave the cities.</p>
+