“We resented that and it got worse when we said that we wanted to manufacture our own vaccines.
This in particular raises a point that, I guess, I’m too ingenuous to understand: there was a pandemic going, why weren’t the patents on vaccines simply waived?
Waving patents means western companies losing money, can’t put the needs of humanity above making profits.
Just get as much money as the western countries then you will be treated equally.
Good idea, African nations should demand reparations for all the wealth the west robbed them off.
That seems like a rather extreme socialist approach.
“We only want to be treated as equals. We are not beggars.
“During the pandemic, Western nations bought all the vaccines in the world and were hogging them.Why didn’t you buy them then?
Oh right, because the West outbid you.“We felt like life in the northern hemisphere is much more important than life in the global south,” he added.
Well, no.
It’s just that you are poor, Aussies and New Zealand got Vaccines.
Rich countries only care about poor countries to exploit them.
Same for people, see the recent Titan vs Refugee-Ship cycle.Or many African countries were taken advantage of for centuries by white Europeans and put into a crappy social/financial position and are still trying to recover from it decades later. How could they afford to outbid the richer countries that took advantage of them?
I remember during the pandemic richer countries that had left over Covid vaccines nearing the end then gave the vaccines to the poorer countries. So yes, they were treated like beggars.
