Recently I saw a documentary about the epidemics that have affected humanity in the last century and highlighted the case of the Spanish flu of 1918. This infection in just one year killed between 40 and 100 million people.

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Let's clarify some terms:

Endemic: is when a disease affects a country or a certain region on a regular basis or on a usual date. The endemic does not always occur in very serious diseases, since it can become "a common factor of that population because of the genetic or cultural elements that compose it," says a WHO report.

Epidemic: The epidemic occurs when the disease attacks numerous people or a large number of animals from the same place, during the same period of time.

Pandemic: According to WHO: "The worldwide spread of a new disease is called a pandemic."

Then, without a doubt, we are in the presence of a PANDEMIA.

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With the effects and advances of globalization, humanity is more prone to the spread of this type of infectious diseases. With intercontinental flights it is very easy to carry a virus or bacteria from one continent to another in a matter of hours.
Especially viruses such as coronaviruses that are airborne.

Industrial and commercial activity in China will undoubtedly be affected.

One of the measures implemented is quarantine. This has led to turning big cities like Wuhan into ghost towns with desolate streets. There is no commercial activity.

The government is in a particularly difficult situation, since it must decide between maintaining production levels and maintaining demographic levels.

Thanks to its huge trade surplus in recent years, China has become the world's largest exporter and is the second largest importer in the world.
China's main exports include transmission devices for radio-telephony, machines and automatic data processing units, electronic integrated circuits and micro assemblies, electrical appliances for line telephony and spare parts and accessories for machines and vehicles. On the other hand, the country mainly imports electronic integrated circuits and microstructures, petroleum oils, iron ores, gold and motor vehicles.
Its main partners are the United States, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and Germany.

All trading partners of China will be hindered their operations.

Venezuela

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Is our job depending in any way on Chinese economy and supplies coming from this country? Would we consider our job being threatened?

Not only our work, but rather, our lives.

Venezuela is experiencing a silent "invasion" by China with the consent of the Venezuelan government for more than 15 years.

Venezuelans have witnessed the proliferation of grocery stores and supermarkets throughout the territory. It is the Chinese who own luxurious vehicles and large houses. It is the Chinese who go to the mall centers to spend large sums in exclusive stores.

There are also low-income Chinese. These are brought as enslaved labor. They travel in ships for hundreds, for thousands. They come to Venezuela undocumented, without any control by the health authorities.
There is a high probability that this virus travels to Venezuela.

The worst of all this is that the Venezuelan health system is in extremely poor conditions.
Diseases such as malaria, measles, diphtheria and yellow fever have reappeared with alarming figures after they have been eradicated.

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If the spread of the virus in China has had such high levels despite the extreme measures taken by the authorities, I don't even want to imagine the health chaos that is going to happen in my country.

God protect us.