One Hour Photo, Seymour Parrish, gnosticism, Demiurge, early Christianity, religious symbolism, cinema, sin, punishment, sword

Abstract

This article focuses on the architecture of intersection that exists between emerging infectious diseases, conflict and global governance. Using COVID-19 as both the backdrop for a failed global response as well as a predictive exercise for future behaviours and attitudes. It follows a course not previously explored where contagion and conflict shape a future of calamity and insecurity. It explores how international relations uses domestic and geopolitical turbulences to infect and damage a coordinated response to the pandemic. This leads to mistrust and apathy towards any response of mitigation.

Keywords

• pandemic
• global health security
• rna virus
• who
• gain of function
• yersinia pestis
• black death
• pathogens