Politicization of the virus: "The rat race"

The coronavirus is neither on the right nor on the left, it makes fun of democracies like dictatorships, but we cannot blame it for being nationalist. He took advantage of the globalization of trade and travel to impose his own globalization - that of an Earth that had become "flat" , according to the formula of Thomas Friedman, where everyone is housed in the same boat. The powerful are no more immune from the disease than the people they govern, as illustrated by the disturbing state of health of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. In this sense, the Covid-19 proves to be cynically populist, a sort of great deadly equalizer.

We would like to be able to say that in the face of this universal danger humanity is on an equal footing. But it is false, of course. If the virus makes fun of politics, politics no longer thinks of the virus: how to respond to it, limit the damage it causes, aggravated by the improvidence of the rulers? Everyone struggles with their means, elbowing in a race

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