There is no choice between economy or health or morality or efficiency, Europe or Africa, the United Kingdom or the European Union, there is an absolute necessity to all cooperate. If the Titanic sinks, the passengers locked in their comfortable first class cabin will sink with the others.
Two new variants of concern (VOC) have arisen in the last few weeks. The situation is clearly evolving into a second wave with VOCs with the potential to wreak much greater havoc than the first wave.
Flattening the curve and waiting for the vaccination cannot cope with the replication speed of the new variants, not to mention unknown variants to come.
At the moment, the few countries that choose an eradication policy are the only ones doing more or less OK. They are OK from a medical point of view, but still reeling from an economical point of view because of the raging pandemic abroad.
It has never been clearer that the only way out will be through international cooperation, via the reduction of the circulation of the virus, both at home and abroad, with the aim of eradicating the virus.
