Thread by @HZiauddeen

🧵COVID-19 and how a minority who hold power have endangered the world:

This isn't the only situation in which this minority have done this (see climate catastrophe) but I'm just talking about controlling the pandemic here or to be precise our inability to do so.
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At the very outset, a global pandemic should have had a concerted and coordinated global response i.e. novel virus, serious acute illness, let's play it safe and suppress. Instead, you know what happened.
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Over the last several months, we've seen what has happened when countries that had successfully managed their pandemic (Vietnam, Singapore) tried reopening. Cases & deaths started to rise again. Because once you open up travel you'll start bringing in cases again.
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Because the world and the global economy are so connected, it is not possible to maintain isolation indefinitely. The longer the pandemic goes on, the harder it gets to do this without suppression & ultimately most countries will be pushed into some form of 'living with it'
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Those who have controlled their national pandemics are at the mercy of and at risk from those who have not. These latter countries like the UK, have ongoing high case numbers but have also imported and 'improved on' new variants that are more virulent and transmissable.
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Also their laissez-faire attitude to deaths and illness and their pretending that things are normal, make it harder for other countries to continue to argue for cautions and precautions 'Look the UK is getting back to normal!'
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The longer this goes on, the harder it will become to control local pandemics as well the global pandemic. Those who did not control their local pandemics will push everyone into more protracted suffering. And the architects of all th have played their cards well.
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They have built and infiltrated the systems of power to engineer all this and it is only they who will profit from this. The rest of us will just have to suffer.
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