Pandemic, social unrest and now war – what comes next? – APTN News

The list goes on and on: The pandemic; George Floyd’s murder and the growing call for racial justice; pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong; an orchestrated attempt to overturn a democratic election in the U.S., global protests over vaccines and masks and now war.

How does this make any sense?

“Could there be a symbiotic relationship between COVID-19 and conflict?” ask scholars Alexi Gugushvilil and Martin McKee. In a paper written in October 2020 for the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.

“At the beginning of the pandemic, UN Secretary-General António Guterres appealed for an immediate global ceasefire to enable the world to confront ‘a common enemy’ but his plea went largely unheeded,” the scholars wrote.

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