World is reaping the consequences of EU blocking vaccine exports until they were taken care of
Dutch nationalists and antivaxxers march against Covid-19 restrictions, in Utrecht, the Netherlands, December 4 2021. Picture: PIERRE CROM/GETTY IMAGES
Long before anyone could even debate the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of vaccines, the powerful Western nations were looking out for number one. No one can dispute that. Anyone remember when the EU blocked all exports of vaccines until they were taken care of first? Some have commented that Africa should be innovating on its own, and that the Western nations “deserve” to be self-centred because they have the skills and intellectual capacity to develop vaccines.
Take those typical Hollywood movie scripts in which everyone pulls together for the common cause to survive or defeat a common enemy and throw them out the window. Ours is a far more depressing and dystopian script were everyone is out for themselves.
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