How the possibility of seriously get sick changed the
way we see how research and public
health planning is conducted
We have been used to
believe that medicine advancements will
cover any type of eventuality; but far from reality.
The COVID -19
appearance had shown us that there are
still health threats against which we are
absolutely impotent. Also, had exposed
government failures and leadership incompetence in planning for these
type of events.
The fact that the
treat was not tangible and visible made it easy for politicians to
disregard funds for research, ignoring
at the same time the need to be prepared
to face potential epidemics, not even saying pandemics.
One concept that emerged from this late episode, is how
important it is the communication between different scientific research teams, sharing discoveries and interacting to
develop solutions and better ways to approach problems. Abolishing the current race to be first with
the breakthroughs that will guarantee
hegemony to the country with the
discovery.
Perhaps assembling
a world organization to manage the teams' interaction will help,
allowing knowledge sharing without
politicians intervention.
Our Prime Minister should go to the hospitals to see how dire the situation is
ReplyDeletePride is the worst of all sins. Why find a cure if you cannot brag about it? It is 1969 all over again, when the U.S scrambled to get to the moon before anyone else. Now everyone is trying to create a vaccine before the Russians.
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