Yet, when one looks at planet Earth, we see global patterns in the manner in which the pandemic has spread and brought disaster, patterns that date back to the fifteenth century, patterns that are rooted in slavery and colonialism and, ultimately, in the construction of so-called race and racist oppression. Within the Global North, there are stark divisions over who is able to get access to the vaccine and who is not, not to mention which populations are sickening and dying disproportionately-divisions that are particularly rooted in oppressions based on class, race, and nationality. It is not that people in the so-called Global North-Canada, the United States, the European Union, Japan-have been able to defy the pandemic and secure health. The question of who has been able to obtain the vaccine and who has not who is able to produce the vaccine, and who is constrained by corporate patent restrictions. The Covid-19 pandemic has both illustrated and dramatized the ongoing North/South divide on planet Earth.
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