Our world is suffering less from a coronavirus crisis and more from an America crisis

In his 1947 classic novel The Plague, which tells the fictional story of the outbreak of a rat-borne plague in the Algerian port city of Oran under French colonialism, French writer and thinker Albert Camus explores the way that the crisis of the plague crisis taps into the very best and worst of the human condition.

The Covid19 crisis we are living through, which certainly is not fictional, is doing the same — and in this respect, if cruelty and barbarity were Olympic sports Washington would be the permanent holder of the gold medal. Because what does it tell us when even in the midst of a global pandemic this neocon infested administration and hegemonic political order refuses to agree to sanctions relief for Iran — a country which in the beginning was among the hardest hit by the virus — in response to entreaties from Tehran?

Camus:

Hitherto the plague had found far more victims in the more thickly populated and less well-appointed outer districts than in the heart of the town. Quite suddenly, however, it launched a new attack and established itself in the business center.