Abstract: Journal of Infectious Diseases and Viruses Research

Abstract:
Today the term “pandemic” is both a metaphor for a global process and a specific instance of that process. The process in question is a distorted form of development, whose expression in neoliberalism has produced in “pandemic” fashion colossal but highly concentrated wealth, enormous inequality and vast environmental destruction, with profound implications for the construction of risk to natural and anthropogenic hazards globally [1]. The specific instance is the COVID-19 pandemic, a global disaster the scale of which transcends ecological regions, national borders, economies, and societies, overwhelming their specific capacities to address disruption of societal functions. Parallel to other pandemics, the outbreak of corona virus is expected to bring catastrophe to the human civilization as an uncharted arena.