Global xenophobia has now become the necessary draconian restrictive measures for almost all global governments, in response to the COVID 19 crisis. In so doing, Sovereign National borders, even from within States and Provinces, are having to shut down borders, to any foreign traveller, sea going vessel and aircraft, and, in thus, transforming the Tower of Babel of globalisation, and, the internationalism of the Anarcho-Capitalist system, to have to bow and on and their knees, to a microorganic viral killer, now coined, the COVID 19.
Draconian laws have been enforced by Sovereign Nations, with many State, Provincial and National Governments having to enforce state of emergency strictures to, hopefully, curtail and contain, the malicious spread of the COVID 19 viral infection throughout the world. Samoa, although, is presently unaffected by the COVID 19 pandemic is not mutually excluded from the global effect of the COVID 19 pandemic.
The Samoan situation may be comparable to the spread of Christianity due to its splendid isolation, Samoa has yet to report any COVID 19 cases. And, like Christianity, in 1830, Samoa, will most likely be amongst the last Nations to have reported cases of COVID 19.
In the meantime, the State of Emergency measures have been enforced throughout Samoa, effectively shutting Samoa out from the rest of the world from crucial importation of necessity supplies of food and resources which would include fuel, oil, diesel and so forth. The nation’s social and economic sustainability is reliant upon what National reserves that are already within the Nation, that will hopefully sustain the Nation’s functional survivability for the foreseeable future. The Samoan seaport, at Apia, and only airport, are accepting only Samoan citizens returning home from New Zealand. Samoan travellers are banned from Australia and any other Nation.
The only General hospital in the Nation will not cope with the expected influx of patients once the COVID 19 strikes the Nation.
A population of 194,000 will not be able to contain the spread of the virus in a Petrie Dish like Samoa, the spread would have a similar impact as the Spanish Flu back in 1919. The impact of that particular pandemic upon the Samoan nation was phenomenal.
As Australians fight on the supermarket aisles for toilet paper, in Samoa, the Samoans have been urged by their Prime Minister to resort to ancient food sourcing, utilising the land and sea, for their food source. Soon almost all western imported food supplies will soon be depleted from all stores since the import of food supplies from trade ships have been reduced.
The situation, as it stands for the Samoans during the COVID 19 crisis, remains precautionary restriction of movements, and assembly of not more than five people at any social context.
Presently the only contact with the outside world, for the Samoan Nation, and their people, is through social media sources, and the local television network, which is directly linked to the New Zealand television network.
The Mootootua Hospital are presently determining the medical conditions of the eight quarantined Patients’ whether they are suspected COVID 19 cases or are merely other medical conditions. If, however, the patients’ presently quarantined are indeed COVID 19 cases, then almost certainly Samoa will be unable to contain the outbreak and attempt to lock, and contain the gate, with government restrictions, after the COVID 19 horse has bolted.
Tim Brian Tufuga
