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:

  • 5trong5tyle [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Capitalists have booked themselves into a corner. Their racist rhetoric has caused local populations to riot and possibly overthrow them if they find out that vaccines they want are going to foreign countries and the foreign countries pass new strains of COVID to the capitalists because they're unprotected. How great is that IP on the vaccine now, Bill Gates?