Sovereignty Resurgent

The Spectator USA published a collection of reflections arguing, inter alia, that borders work.
A Georgetown University public health expert confidently tweeted that ‘germs don’t respect borders’. If this is true, it is true only in the sense that respecting borders is a human trait. Viruses don’t write novels or read Playboy or develop gambling addictions or say ‘for all intents and purposes’ until it gets on your nerves, either.

This viruses-don’t-respect-borders business is a perfect globalist slogan. It conveys absolutely nothing but aggressively enough so as to cow others into swallowing any inclination to stand up and disagree with you. It is what is called in zoology ‘display’.

But in fact, the scientist is wrong. This virus happens to travel on people. If people can be made to respect borders, viruses will ‘respect’ them too, in the sense that they will not cross them. If this is true of households, then it is true of nations.
I think his point about the patience of working people like delivery drivers with more privileged classes being limited is valid, as well.

2 comments:

David Foster said...

In systems of almost any kind...whether nations or electrical power grids...one can get benefits by coupling the individual pieces together more tightly...but this usually comes at the price if increasing the possibilities of catastrophic system-wide failure. I discussed this phenomenon in my post Coupling:

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/58361.html

Texan99 said...

Viruses that are transmitted by bats don't respect borders. Virus-bearing bats don't respect borders. Whether people who carry viruses respect borders depends on whether the border's administrators respect the borders and the laws that enforce them. We don't have any problem embargoing animals or plants that we suspect of carrying dangerous diseases. Try crossing the border with a dog suspected of having rabies.