Post by account_disabled on Mar 11, 2024 3:01:07 GMT -6
There is a certain consensus that the current pandemic will be with us for a long time. We are going to enter a period of intermittent pandemic whose precise characteristics are yet to be defined. The game between our immune system and virus mutations does not have very clear rules. We will have to live with insecurity, no matter how dramatic the advances in contemporary biomedical sciences are. We know few things for sure. We know that the recurrence of pandemics is related to the dominant development and consumption model, with the climate changes associated with it, with the pollution of seas and rivers and with the deforestation of forests. We know that the acute phase of this pandemic (possibility of serious contamination) will only end when between 60% and 70% of the world's population is immunized.
We know that this task is hampered by the worsening of social inequalities within and between countries, combined with the fact that Big Pharma does not want to give up patent rights on vaccines. Vaccines are already considered the new liquid gold, succeeding the liquid gold of the 20th century, oil. We know that State policies, political cohesion around the pandemic and the behavior of citizens are decisive. The greater or lesser Belgium Mobile Number List success depends on the combination of epidemiological surveillance, reduction of contagion through confinements, effectiveness of the hospital rearguard, better public knowledge about the pandemic and attention to special vulnerabilities. Errors, negligence and even necrophilic intentions on the part of some political leaders have given rise to forms of health death policies that we call social Darwinism: the elimination of disposable social groups because they are old, because they are poor or because they are discriminated against.
For ethnic-racial or religious reasons. There is consensus today that one of the most effective measures will be the temporary suspension of intellectual property rights on Covid vaccine patents by large pharmaceutical companies. Finally, we know that the European (and North American) world showed in this pandemic the same arrogance with which it has treated the non-European world for the last five centuries. Because he believes that the best technical-scientific knowledge comes from the Western world, he has not wanted to learn from the way other countries in the Global South have dealt with epidemics and, specifically, this virus. Long before Europeans realized the importance of masks, the Chinese already considered them mandatory.
We know that this task is hampered by the worsening of social inequalities within and between countries, combined with the fact that Big Pharma does not want to give up patent rights on vaccines. Vaccines are already considered the new liquid gold, succeeding the liquid gold of the 20th century, oil. We know that State policies, political cohesion around the pandemic and the behavior of citizens are decisive. The greater or lesser Belgium Mobile Number List success depends on the combination of epidemiological surveillance, reduction of contagion through confinements, effectiveness of the hospital rearguard, better public knowledge about the pandemic and attention to special vulnerabilities. Errors, negligence and even necrophilic intentions on the part of some political leaders have given rise to forms of health death policies that we call social Darwinism: the elimination of disposable social groups because they are old, because they are poor or because they are discriminated against.
For ethnic-racial or religious reasons. There is consensus today that one of the most effective measures will be the temporary suspension of intellectual property rights on Covid vaccine patents by large pharmaceutical companies. Finally, we know that the European (and North American) world showed in this pandemic the same arrogance with which it has treated the non-European world for the last five centuries. Because he believes that the best technical-scientific knowledge comes from the Western world, he has not wanted to learn from the way other countries in the Global South have dealt with epidemics and, specifically, this virus. Long before Europeans realized the importance of masks, the Chinese already considered them mandatory.