The Incalculable: Thoughts on the Collapse of the Biosecurity Regime

Liu offers insights about the collapse of the biosecurity regime It makes a world of difference where the novel coronavirus travels Sirens wail day and night on the streets as doctors and nurses struggle to keep critically ill patients alive while exposing themselves to the deadly pathogen To the astonishment of the world, American society has not prepared itself for a disaster of this magnitude;and worse, many in Europe and America had initially been led to believe that the novel coronavirus might be one of those isolated, regional affairs Recent genomic analyses suggest that the vast majority of coronavirus cases in New York came from Europe, not from Asia Blindsided by its own racism, the political calculus of the US biosecurity regime has misfired