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:
Don't the travel bans always end up being ineffective because some rich freak with a private jet decides they can't catch it and leaves the country with the Nemesis Variant or something?
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?
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
LuckilyCOVID seems to mutate more (often?) than smallpox, so maybe now that a potential "super variant" exists, the west will put more money into global vaccination? :hopium:they might do it if it fucks themselves over too much. then again, west isn't too concerned (line wise) about millions dead domestically so :shrug-outta-hecks:
The problem with covid is that it only kills poor people who can't afford good healthcare. Unless omicron variant is strong enough to take them out, the rich won't do anything like they didn't with normal/delta covid.
