Most global leaders did not anticipate that the virus would spread and reshuffle the social, political and economic structures of their countries and that a post-COVID-19 strategy would be necessary to revive their economies.
With the COVID-19 pandemic, it simply means that traditional donor countries had to invest time and resources towards protecting their citizens, their taxpayers and their economies before saving “others”.
This is not the case in poor countries where the leadership has blindly adopted the same measures without taking into account the social and economic dynamics, including the symbiotic effects.
It means poor families can no longer earn money to buy food, pay for medical care, education and other basic family requirements.
It smacks of both stupidity and ruthlessness when this is occurring in a country endowed with abundant natural wealth presided over by a greed leadership that is blind to the basic concept that economic growth is the most reliable cushion against any social and political challenge including diseases such as COVID-19.
