In response to Covid, shouldn't we be focussing less on vaccines, and more on the terrain? Imagine if we put much of this effort that we're putting into creating vaccines, into ending poverty, hunger, poor sanitation, and transforming the poisonous food system.
Instead, the response that we've had has made poverty/hunger, in places like Africa where the virus has been way less of an issue (because they eat more healthily there?), much worse. And it’s led to an even greater concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, meaning that the terrain - the general health of us and the planet - will get even worse.
We’re going to have more environmental destruction, more vulnerable populaces, and more viruses, until we fundamentally change our approach to health and our relationship with the natural world. We must start trying to create systems that work in harmony with nature. A sane response to a pandemic would surely involve a massive drive to overhaul the food system from processed, chemical crap, to organic, and a massive drive to stop wrecking the environment. Instead, we’re just going to spend $billions vaccinating everyone, whilst mostly ignoring the root issues. Because sickness and destruction is profitable; wellness is not.
We need revolution.
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