I’m not sure he’s characterizing Fauci’s point correctly. I think what Fauci is effectively saying is that due to the increased footprint of human beings in the world and the increased rates of travel and interchange between people (think globalization), humans will come in contact with more disease agents like this that can spread rapidly. The risk of pandemics is increased.

So with COVID19, 50 years ago, this disease either would have stayed in the caves where the bats were (because people weren’t poking around in them) or if people came in contact, the disease would have stayed in China because there wasn’t much trade or travel with or to/from China. Even within China the disease might have been geographically limited because there wasn’t a lot of even inter-regional travel. But today these things can spread so quickly because of the amount of travel and trade.

Honestly it can be turned into an argument against globalization and borderless travel. Obviously the business world isn’t interested in that, so they’ll argue that people need to change their behavior to adapt to the new reality. Fauci’s taking the globalist side.

I’m not sure he’s characterizing Fauci’s point correctly. I think what Fauci is effectively saying is that due to the increased footprint of human beings in the world and the increased rates of travel and interchange between people (think globalization), humans will come in contact with more disease agents like this that can spread rapidly. The risk of pandemics is increased.

So with COVID19, 50 years ago, this disease either would have stayed in the caves where the bats were (because people weren’t poking around in them) or if people came in contact, the disease would have stayed in China because there wasn’t much trade or travel with or to/from China. Even within China the disease might have been geographically limited because there wasn’t a lot of even inter-regional travel. But today these things can spread so quickly because of the amount of travel and trade.

Honestly it can be turned into an argument against globalization and borderless travel. Obviously the business world isn’t interested in that, so they’ll argue that people need to change their behavior to adapt to the new reality.