Scientists and world health leaders have called for an all-out approach to combatting COVID-19, but wealthy countries have pursued vaccine nationalism. This backfires if new variants emerge in parts of the world with low immunity.

But even though this happened, it's certainly not too late to address it. With Delta, scientists took many weeks to identify what was behind India's terrible wave and by the time it was sequenced and traced, it had already gained a foothold across the world. South African scientists were thankfully able to sequence, trace and inform the world about Omicron extremely fast which gives serious hope that the situation can be controlled.

I think China and other socialist countries will handle it fine. Capitalist countries, not so much :stonks-up:

  • BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Given we live under capitalism and the inherent demand that the line goes up, I do wonder what perverse incentives that the travel bans from South Africa is setting up for future new variants