of peasants. you are talking about college educated people who are defying the covid lockdown. right. i have to ask you, does this pose any threat or challenge whatsoever to xi? what about the covid lockdown policy, this extreme policy they have had, could that be coming to an end? might the chinese government relent? in the past, they have course corrected when they have faced this kind of public outcry. it s a crazy policy. the reason they have it, just so people understand, is they are unwilling to use mrna vaccines to knacvaccinate their populati because they are western vaccines. they want to create their own. they have been trying, essentially reverse engineering the western vaccines. they have not been able to do so. it s a kind of extreme version of vaccine nationalism. they are hoping they will soon have that and they will be able to we know they can vaccinate
While it does not say so explicitly, an International Labour Organisation report makes clear that the refusal to implement an elimination strategy, using both vaccines and stringent public health measures on the basis that it would cost too much, has worsened economic prospects.
"If we can't manage to comprehend and address the pandemic as a global challenge, it will continue to spread," says Tobias Kurth from Berlin's Charité hospital. "We have to take it seriously, and be prepared to respond to an evolving situation."
The unintended consequence of vaccine apartheid has left billions of people in poor countries unvaccinated – creating opportunities for COVID-19 to mutate.