本文综合分析了在解释新冠大流行的发展过程中必须考虑的各种因素，并在跨学科的视角之下，探讨虚拟地理和现实地理如何交织在一起的问题，特别关注了交通基础设施一贯的重要性。其中，关键的问题是，在虚拟和现实的模式中，存在着多种力量支配和获得流动性的政治活动。由此，新冠危机被认为既放大了许多先前存在的不平等形式，又有力粉碎了全球化主导话语下先入为主的假设。

The article offers a conjunctural analysis of the various factors which must be taken into account in explaining the development of the Covid-19 pandemic. It offers an interdisciplinary perspective on questions of how virtual and material geographies are enmeshed which pays particular attention to the continuing importance of transport infrastructures. The key concerns are with the politics of differential power over - and access to - mobility in both its actual and virtual modalities. The Covid-19 crisis is argued to have functioned both as a mode of amplification of many pre-existing forms of inequality and as a powerful solvent of the unexamined presumptions of the dominant discourse of globalisation.