If anyone did not realize what a small and interconnected
world it is, they should now. It has taken less than three months for Covid-19
to spread across the world. The supply chain is global. We get medicines from
many countries. For example, surgical masks are supplied from many countries including France
and China.
In the USA, we eat grapes from Portugal, chocolate from
Africa, bananas from central America, drink coffee from south and central America,
wine from Chile, and Australia, tea from India and China. I am sure you can
think of more examples.
Tourism is international. Last summer in Costa Rica, we met
people from the Netherlands, Mexico, Italy, Spain, Canada, and England. At the
university, I have students from Denmark, Mexico, Canada, Costa Rica, China,
Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, India, and even Texas. Go to Disneyland when it
reopens if you don’t believe travel is global.
No man is an island, entire of itself (John Donne, 1624).
No country is an island either.
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