The Viral Bomb in Europe and USA

Undoubtedly, we are all astonished in these days about what happens in the whole world regarding rapid spread of Corona virus Covid-19. Many countries have shocked the world with the increasing number of infections with this virus and the number of daily deaths. Remarkably, these countries are America, Italy, Spain, Germany, France, and UK. Their statistics exceed the ones of China despite the fact that China was the first focus of the outbreak of the virus. Here we can beg a question, what caused this to happen?

Despite the warnings sent by the World Health Organization regarding the spread of Corona virus, and the call to announce quarantine and prevent family and non-family gatherings, the aforementioned countries did not implement these warnings quickly and effectively. This is due to two reasons. The first is that people and governments underestimate the disease. According to their beliefs, this virus affects the elderly people only, while young ages have immunity to this disease. The second reason is related to economy issue. The governments of these countries by virtue of their economic position in the world could not easily accept the idea of stopping the business dealings with other countries. These countries especially USA would have the most direct economic impacts from the disruption. If countries with large economies have enacted quarantine policies, they of course will face economy crisis which nowadays becomes a global scenario. Thus, the economic consequences of quarantine will disturb like these capitalist states.

After the rates of infection increased terrifyingly and rapidly in these countries, the governments began to realize the great danger that would arise among people. This increasing would lead to a large viral explosion that may will be difficult to control. Hence, the governments began to impose curfew, and call people to stay at home and stay away from gatherings. The airports also stopped working and all modes of travelling were suspended except for commercial traffic with applying a set of health conditions including sterilization. Medical organizations and institutions have also called people to conduct medical examinations in case of symptoms of the pandemic virus. Although many governments seriously implement all these instructions, people did not realize the scale of danger and did not adhere to the quarantine. The people of these countries have not witnessed such crises or disasters in which curfew imposes and working is suspended in this way. Also, some societies consider curfew as a violation of human rights. Most of them spend their daily time by jogging, biking, sitting in public, or hiking with their dogs. People fail to respond to the late instructions made by the governments, led to daily catastrophic increases in infection rates and deaths, so that hospitals were unable to receive the large numbers of infected people. Rather, they were unable to even provide beds, ventilators and doctors. Thus, these countries fell into the trap of Corona, despite the possibility of controlling it from the early days of its spread.

These are some statistics recorded by Worldometers, which show the number of first and current infected people and deaths in the USA, Spain, Italy, France, Germany and the United Kingdom.