mandryka
pfm Member
South Africa has done the right thing here: seemingly total and timely transparency in full awareness that the consequences are likely to be discrimination and isolation. The world’s watching: if restrictions aren’t matched - at least! - by support then other countries won’t make the same mistake.
https://twitter.com/tuliodna/status/1463911554538160130?s=21
“Busy day on B.1.1.529 - a variant of great concern - The world should provide support to South Africa and Africa and not discriminate or isolate it! By protecting and supporting it, we will protect the world! A plea for billionaires and financial institutions.”
The UK’s response is likely to be border theatre: both punitive and completely ineffective. Covid celebrities whose first instinct is to call for isolation in this context have learned nothing and don’t GAF.
It may be as that only solution is a big one - we have to vaccinate the whole world, with a vaccine that stops transmission - we don’t have the vaccine and the world is big and Pfizer want to make a profit.
And if that’s right, what happens politically and economically in the interim, as the transmission stopping vaccine is being developed and then rolled out?