The benefits of hysteria

The epidemic of the COVID-19 is a fact, as are seasonal influenzas of various types that affect large amounts of people during winter, every year. COVID-19 is αn ordinary flu, transmitted more rapidly than others and it has a low mortality rate, affecting almost exclusively the eldest and those with health problems.
It is a standard procedure when a particular type of influenza affects large numbers that the pharmaceutical companies make a big noise using “friendly medics” for marketing reasons and struggle to be the first to produce a vaccine as it implies billions of euros to be made.
Given the geostrategic circumstances at the moment and the origins of the disease, the issue has been heavily politicised by certain quarters that are aiming to isolate China and minimise its role in the world. Whether it is right or wrong is, at this moment, irrelevant as we are analysing the facts, not policies or intentions.
As the information on the matter is incomplete and confusing, the issue has been upgraded by the Western media into a life or death matter that concerns all citizens. The politicisation was successful as ordinary citizens and family people all over the globe have panicked given that the power centres which launched this superb communication campaign, escalated further the issue instead of letting it diffuse.
Prolonged panic turned to mass hysteria, which if properly manipulated, will lay the grounds to easily enforce any kind of situation that will give the populace a feeling of security. Real or fake, it does not matter, as the entire exercise is virtual and perceptions are realities.
Hysteria has successfully affected the big centres of power, which will now use the right timing to take “democratic” measures that will change the world, with the pretext that such decisions are taken under the unbearable pressure of the great majority of the people.
As to the essence of the issue. No doubt, China constitutes an existential threat to Western society whether is financial, political, or social. The question is whether this is the right way to contain China or there are ways that are equally efficient which can bring even better results and at lower risks without hurting the Chinese people, which so far is only suffering.
The possible containment of China in such a grotesque way will have equally grotesque direct and side effects. It will, however, certainly have significant benefits for many.
Isolation will re-enforce the ability of Beijing’s Communist regime to maintain power and send China back to the Mao Zedong years of misery and absolute rule. This is exactly what Xi Jinping needs to survive. Power in Communist regimes is a guarantee for rulers to survive.
Isolation may also bring the controlled collapse of the existing economic system in the West. This will lead to new social structures, a controlled soft redistribution of the wealth and continuation of the status quo of our socially stratified society, with only minor changes.
The isolation of China will not only help Xi to survive but will make the transition of the “new” Western societies smooth and controlled and avoid any chaotic explosion.