If you listened to the Twitter Space just now and would like to engage more on the racist and neocolonialist aspect to rich countries' vaccine policies, here's a thread...
https://twitter.com/astroehlein/status/1412277419147411460
That western leaders can get away with their deadly policy of throttling vaccine production globally is surely dependent on having societies deeply indoctrinated with white-supremacist thinking.
The mass suffering & death of people elsewhere can only be considered an "acceptable" part of policy if they are considered less than fully human. If western publics saw people in low-income countries as equals, our leaders could never get away with what they're doing right now.
And our own racism will come back to bite us if it means we thus accept a limited and insufficient global vaccination strategy that leaves the vast majority of humanity unvaccinated.
Grotesquely unfair to the global south.
Self-destructive for the global north.
Grotesquely unfair to the global south.
Self-destructive for the global north.
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