nakedcapitalism | We can make a highly suggestive correlation between globalizers and COVID-19 if we look at two simple maps. First, as is
well known, one of the main distinctions between the places that are “optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward”
(i.e., globalizers) and the
dull provincials in flyover is the possession of passports. (A passport
is a likely marker for the sort of person who asks “Why don’t they just
leave?”; “front-row kids,” in Chris Arnade’s parlance, as distinguished
from, say, grocery workers, who he calls
“back-row” kids.) Here is a map of passport ownership by state:
The correlation is rather neat, don’t you think? It
makes sense that the first case was in a globalist, passport-owning
city like Seattle on the West Coast; and it makes sense that the world
capital of globalization, passport-owning New
York City, now has a major outbreak.
Oh, and the ability to travel by air correlates to income (a proxy for class)
