1/Throughout media a veritable celebration of the cost and “logistics and organization” in the sending of killing machines to Ukraine. But where was the funding, logistics, and organization to send COVID vaccinations to Ukraine, Europe’s poorest country?
2/ Only 34% of Ukrainians are fully vaccinated, lowest rate in Europe. Some 110,000 Ukrainians have died of COVID. The roughly 1,000 deaths so far in Russian invasion are horrific and must be condemned. But COVID took 9,000 lives in Kyiv alone; 6,000 in Odessa; 7,000 in Kharkiv.
3/While bodies piled up Ukraine pleaded with "ally" US for help for two years. Finally last summer Biden donated 2 million doses, enough to cover about 4% of Ukraine’s population. US then boasted of $48 million in COVID aid to Ukraine, less than the cost of two Reaper Drones!
4/Now endless $billions flood into Ukraine for war. These weapons will only lead to more destruction. Meanwhile, the millions of unvaccinated Ukrainians, packed into camps in Poland, will surge the new BA2 variant in Europe. A public health catastrophe is being created.
5/ How many more will die from these policies? Will yet another variant emerge from the refugee camps? If Biden, Johnson, and Scholz truly cared for “Ukrainian lives”—or for that matter “the defense of Europe”—why not even a gesture against COVID?
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