After the Pandemic, a Return to MAD?

Article originally published by DWF News

People and groups everywhere are talking about the failure of our world system in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic.  They are pointing out that nations are on their own in the face of this epidemic.  Poor nations are ravaged because they do not have the resources to cope with the devastation.  Some rich nations are ravaged because their profit-based health care systems cannot possibly deal with what goes beyond profit to the common good of human beings.

And the nations are mostly competing with each other to get what is necessary for the own citizens. We see that the global economic and political system, in a word, is fragmented, unorganized, and not designed for human welfare. Whose welfare is the system designed for?

The natural competition between sovereign nations for the resources and materials necessary to deal with the pandemic reveals their inherent inability to work together.  The situation has been compared to a war against all for survival.[1]  Everywhere people are asking how we can change the world system to something better that will be able to deal effectively with the next global pandemic that will surely arise in the future, and perhaps even to deal with some of the other crises we are facing . . .