Coronavirus and Politics

There have been many staggering and significant events since the start of 2020, including the assassinations of Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and their companions in Iraq, Iran’s strike against the U.S. airbase, Ayn al-Asad, and economic war between China and the United States. This is only a small number of the events which have occurred since 2020 began.

The emergence of a new disease called COVID-19 has captured the entire world’s attention, and has started to spread from country to country. The World Health Organization is closely following the disease, alternately issuing warnings and calls for calm, having announced that this disease isn’t all that dangerous. If we look at this untimely disease that only emerged at the start of this year, we find more politics than disease.

The media point to the danger of this disease in two specific countries, China and Iran, knowing that China violated U.S. tariffs on Iran by importing its oil, and threw its weight around in the Middle East until it had assumed the lion’s share of reconstruction in Syria and Iraq. So, America politicized COVID-19 and boxed China in by not dealing with it on an economic basis after Chinese efforts to combat and eradicate the disease using all means ultimately failed.

Iran delivered a strong blow to America when it recently struck the U.S. airbase in Iraq. It has also received media attention because the COVID-19 pathogen reached Iran, and many countries announced that the virus had been transmitted elsewhere by people who had traveled from Iran. The media also politicized this in order to isolate Iran from the rest of the world. This is how the Trump administration manages such an issue.

There are neutral organizations around the world relaying news in a transparent fashion, saying that COVID-19 is no different from any other disease except that it is new and there is no vaccine for it yet. They say that there are other much more dangerous diseases than COVID-19 which are also more quickly transmitted and for which there are vaccines and treatment, such as cholera, SARS and HIV. On the other hand, there are already high mortality rates from other causes in all the countries affected by this virus, whether due to traffic accidents or modern-day illnesses such as diabetes, stress or even common influenza, which infects any person exposed to a specific climate and who recovers after a brief illness.

The American overemphasis on this disease is spreading rapidly across the globe. The goal of this exaggeration is to isolate Iran and China from the world, leaving America at the forefront. While we are in the midst of these events, we cannot be absolutely certain that this virus is part of any global biological warfare, although there are those who say that it is. Over time, many diseases have emerged and been cured as appropriate vaccines were discovered and the diseases disappeared forever.