22.11.2021:
And everybody knows that we are not all equal. In 2019, only months before the outbreak of the pandemic, the WHO published the report A World at Risk (1). It describes how the world should 'prepare for the worst: a rapidly spreading, lethal respiratory pathogen pandemic'. The description of what could happen and what is at stake is so precise that it is painful to read. Two years and 17 million deaths later, we know how well prepared the world was, and the verdict is devastating: the world is broken (2). 'Everybody knows the deal is rotten,' Leonard Cohen sang in 1988 (3). The pandemic has...