Diplomacy Addict

The literature of pandemics demonstrates us the very shaping of national and international responses in a global outbreak. The spread of this zoonotic disease causes serious concerns all over the globe which is not just on economic or cultural grounds but on politics as well. The political breakdown of this outbreak is due to the rising nationalism, waning trust, rampant misinformation, growing skeptics of science and lingering trade wars which have undermine cooperation among the international powers. Recently, we have seen the super powers who instead of encouraging the acts of social solidarity, playing a nefarious blame game of narratives, responsibilities and vulnerabilities. Through this they are not solving an issue but simply politicizing the origins of the virus. Which further lead us towards the proliferation of conspiracy theories. The dispute over the geneses of this cytokine storm initiated in late February by a renowned epidemiologists Zhong Nanshan who blame the U.S m...

  As the corona-esque mushrooms so do the crimes related to it. Criminals, as pandemic profiteers, exploit the COVID-19 crisis by capitalizing on fear and panic of vulnerable citizens through transgressions. Which causes this global outbreak to not only looped momentous health issues but security issues as well. These Covidiots swiftly took advantage of the virus proliferation and abuse the demand people have for information and supplies. In addition to this, they used this catastrophic situation to carry out their heinous crimes like harassment, burglaries, phishing emails through spam campaigns, frauds, theft, counterfeiting or smuggling of people in Kurdish-dominated region of Iraq for some extra cash. By now there are handsome amount of cases in which some bizarre individuals threatened their surroundings by coughing and spitting on people, even on some police officer, or on grocery store items so that they allow the spread of this ‘mutated’ virus across their adjoining setti...