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Part 4: Why are we planning to go back to “normal” anyway? INEQUALITY
It did not start where it was supposed to start.
Covid-19 did not come from the depths of the Congo jungle or the sands of South Sudan where unknown men live to be 200 years old creating concoctions with mud leaves and bones from dead tigers! Oh yes, mix this with the green primate and you have Ebola or AIDS as the output!
It’s a narrative we have heard many times and jesting aside the novel coronavirus did not start in what is considered the poorest continent on earth in terms of poverty…yet the richest in terms of its resources.
So it’s the topsy-turvy nature that Covid-19 originated in the second largest economy in the world, China.
So what of inequality? Well, this is on a global scale where wealthy nations have been impacted more at this point in time compared to the least wealthy nations. We have to take notice of this because the complacency across the western nations and efficiency across the rest of the world speaks volumes.
Note; Africa is a continent of 1,300 million people and at approx. 61,000 cases puts things into perspective. The UK alone with a population of 66 million people has approx. 250,000 cases.
Africa is a continent of 1,300 million…
