The Covid-19 Pandemic And International Cooperation - Essay

The COVID-19 Pandemic and International Cooperation - Essay #1 Dan Francis 0272467 GENV-4111 Mount Allison University B.Walters September 29th, 2020 As mentioned in the description of this assignment, this global disease pandemic has caused the entire human race to experience a haul of a historical event within international politics as well as governance. The global crisis of COVID-19 hit the world hard and quickly spread globally. This was initially ignored or not taken quite that seriously; which did not help prevent the spread of COVDI-19 due to students thinking they were granted immunity to the disease. In accordance, if students caught COVID-19, it was likely that they would pass it on, which causes a ripple effect. This ripple effect would have continued if a total lockdown and mandatory quarantine had not become a critical concept. In many ways, the international governments cooperation with involvement of the United Nations World Health Organization were widely negatively criticized in regard to their response to the COVID-19 crisis. A great amount of blame seemed to be placed on the World Health Organization while being under siege. According to the Foreign Affairs article When the System Fails and its connection to COVID-19 and the Costs