Massive resources are being poured belatedly into combating the Covid-19 pandemic, causing further shortfalls in funding to counter existing epidemics that affect mainly the poor, writes Terry Bell.
It is remarkable how, when personally threatened, the rich and powerful rally around the banner of ubuntu.
It’s the same the world over, so now is a good time to look into why we face such a chronic crisis and if what has happened was really inevitable. They concluded that it was almost inevitable that once-containable local epidemics could become global disasters. He noted: “The problem isn’t that prevention was impossible. It was very possible, but we didn’t do it.”
It is a system where epidemics that do not threaten the rich and powerful are allowed to continue to kill millions of working-class people.This at a time when the efforts of the WHO to eliminate the disease and develop new drugs to deal with resistant strains are underresourced by $4.5 billion .
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