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Once the vaccination period has begun, in Spain around 8% of the population have been vaccinated with all doses, for only 1.5% of the world population of the 7,700 million people who live in the world, with the Except that 80% of them are in only ten countries. What is the cause of this “medical apartheid” that has been configured with the deployment of vaccines? Why aren’t vaccines being provided to the world’s 7.7 billion people?

The Chinese authorities, after having detected the “bug”, sequenced the virus and shared the information on a website, in which scientists from different private and public institutions rushed to download the information to have a better understanding of the virus by trying to create a vaccine for the immunization of the population. In such a way that, in a very few months, nine private and public companies announced that they already had vaccine candidates: Pfizer / BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Novavax, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi / GSK, Sinovac, Sinopharm and Gamaleya, some of the which, like the last three mentioned, have been produced by the Chinese and Russian public sectors, immediately proceeding to distribute it among 41 countries.

The rest of the vaccines have been produced by private companies, although financed by the public treasury of different countries, among which is our country with a multimillion-dollar contribution to GAVI (Gates Foundation and CIA that, together with the World Bank , WHO and Unicef ​​are the “saviors of the world”), as expressed in a tweet on May 4, 2020, by the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez: “We have met to promote an ambitious and global to covid-19 based on social justice, science and collaboration. Let’s learn from the past and make sure that, this time, we come out of the crisis without leaving anyone behind ”.

The clearest example of the above is the one referred to the controversial AstraZeneca vaccine, whose 97 percent financing was carried out with money from the British government, European funds and other States, leaving the contribution of the pharmaceutical industry in a scarce 3 percent. Thus, while Boris Johnson had the audacity to point out that the speed of the vaccine was due “to capitalism, to greed”, and the pharmaceutical industry promoted the same message in defense of patents and property rights, the researchers from Universities Allied for Essential Medicines UK carried out by the studies are by no means consistent with these statements by the British president when they state through a statement that: “Our study shows that it is the opposite: public investment and international collaboration gave us the covid-19 vaccines “.

However, these private companies after having received public funding to produce vaccines for the whole world, put these up for sale to obtain colossal profits while further securing their profits through patents, in such a way that the information that We have today about vaccines sold and transported to different parts of the world, changing rapidly, where many of the nations classified as poor will not have vaccines for their population before 2023, while other nations, of the so-called rich, have hoarded enough doses to vaccinate your population up to five times.

Can the countries of the Near and Middle East, where the world’s largest oil reserves are concentrated, continue to be called poor? Are Libya, Zaire, Ghana, Liberia, Zambia, Congo and many other African countries poor, on whose mineral extraction literally depends the operation of the governing branches of the industries of the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany and? other developed capitalist states? Can countries such as India, Malaysia, Brazil and many other countries in Asia and Latin America continue to be classified as poor, when 80% of the raw material that moves the world is concentrated in their entrails?

Throughout my international trade union career, if I learned something, it was that those countries called poor are exploited by those other countries considered rich, sometimes too poor to hold that title, and therefore it is not possible to continue talking about poor countries, but rather of countries plundered and enslaved, but never poor, reaching the conclusion that in the European Union we continue to live on a bubble with a false illusion of security, largely thanks to the plundering of their material and biological resources, but the truth is that is that “our comfortable and safe existence” has an expiration date sooner rather than later, among other issues, because the increasingly fragile European bubble can burst overnight as it is surrounded by millions of people who suffer, each time more, the direct and indirect consequences of that historical process of great exploitation in those Third World countries, as if there were several worlds on this planet to.

Looking at the percentage of the vaccinated population in the population of the European Union, we see that it is surprisingly low, well below the real capacity that it has to produce such vaccines in the different States that comprise it, resulting paradoxical this vaccine shortage having, as it is, a large pharmaceutical business fabric with a production capacity among the highest in the world.

It is clear that in a situation as dramatic as the current one, in which more than 10,000 people continue to die every day in the world from covid-19, a situation like the one we have to live cannot occur, and this requires a substantial change in the productive and distributive dynamics of vaccines and other necessary elements at European and world levels.

How difficult is it to start manufacturing vaccines to supply everyone in record time, once the formula to fight the virus is known? Sure, I forgot, I’m still a poor fool. We are talking about patents, translated into colossal profits for the world financial oligarchy, but, even so, I still think that the release of these in a global way and the urgent intervention of laboratories and facilities where vaccines can be produced, as well as instruments necessary for its application, it is a matter of life and death for millions of people around the planet. It’s about your earnings or our lives. If the EU is not able to carry it out, it is better that they close the chiringuito and stop misleading the population.