A 24 year old doctor is on ventilator in my city. No underlying conditions. Fully Vaccinated. If we don't break the patents and vaccinate the whole world, newer, more dangerous variants will overwhelm the developed world too. It's an inevitability understood by most, yet...

The same goes for healthcare + economic infrastructures too. If we don't find ways of keeping Asia, Africa, and Latin America in controlled lockdowns (not possible right not because of the supply-chains and bought governments), then it becomes your problem again soon enough.

Angela Merkel quite literally threatened India recently, saying it had only 'allowed' India to become a pharma leader so as to serve the west with cheap medicines.
(I am sure low waged labor and environmental risks played a role) https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-defends-curbs-on-vaccine-raw-material-exports-angela-merkel-targets-indian-pharma-101619206077962.html https://twitter.com/ranjodhd/status/1388499851986362372

This, of course, does not absolve the local governments of their necropolitics. BJP is a standard fascist party hell bent on 'liberalizing' India for further corporate control. (see Roy in Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/28/crime-against-humanity-arundhati-roy-india-covid-catastrophe ) But nor can we absolve the global political economy...