Does the coronavirus pandemic mean the end of globalization? Good!

Intro:

Globalization is not a new phenomenon. As evolutionary anthropologist Peter Turchin noted in a recent blog post, it’s something that happens in pulses, or waves — starting with waves of Afro-Eurasian “continentalization” in the Old World and of “Mediterraneanization” before that — and the waves often break with pandemics, just like the one we’re experiencing now. It can take generations to recover….