The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework regarding coronavirus war. This paper originated in a classroom discussion of an MBA course on World Trade in the Spring Semester of 2020 at NYIT-Vancouver. World trade has been greatly affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The crisis is a war between humans and the virus. It requires a holistic plan to fight the invisible enemy beyond the various medical-pharmaceutical remedies currently adopted regionally worldwide. As a war against a common enemy, the problem can be viewed as a VUCA problem in management methodology. The traveling map in terms of a 5-pronged attack by the enemy should be better understood to plan a strategy of fighting this war. It is argued that closing borders are not a good holistic strategy. In addition to having a negative impact on trade, it does not solve a pandemic spread. The focus is on mitigations, but the mitigations based on the closing of borders (or regions) will not solve an exponential spread, which is the crux of the matter with a worldwide pandemic.

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