VAX LIVE, one more profit live performance the place well-known faces will act as if they’re making the world a extra equal place, takes place subsequent month. Why do we now have to hold enduring these cheesy occasions when actual change is what’s wanted?
You may very well be forgiven for considering you’ve entered a time warp and travelled again to 1985.
A bunch of singers, bands and celebrities congregating to increase cash for these deemed much less lucky.
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That was the Bob Geldof-inspired Live Aid for ravenous individuals in Ethiopia.
Over the years, we’ve additionally had: Concert for Bangladesh (1971), Concerts for the People of Kampuchea (1979), Live eight (2005) and Hope for Haiti Now (2010)
Now there’s the 2021 reboot, VAX LIVE, whose goals are to increase sufficient “dollars-for-doses” to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of well being employees on the “global front lines” of the world’s poorest countries towards Covid-19.
It’s thought $200 million was raised at Live Aid – this time they’re aiming for $22 BILLION.
Next month’s occasion is billed as ‘VAX LIVE: The Concert to Reunite the World’, however that’s simply utter garbage. It was the identical when Live eight was branded ‘One Day, One Concert, One World’.
The world premiere of our latest, star-studded broadcast, #VaxLive: The Concert To Reunite the World, is Saturday, May eight! Learn extra at https://t.co/r8q4E3oO2d and try all of the wonderful expertise beneath 👇
— Global Citizen (@GlblCtzn) April 13, 2021
We have by no means been united, not in 1985, not final 12 months, not ever, so there’s nothing to reunite.
The international elites and highly effective leaders reminiscent of Joe Biden, Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron, Justin Trudeau and Angela Merkel haven’t any want to pursue that.
Their conduct over the previous 12 months has precisely been coined ‘vaccine apartheid’. The US, the UK and different rich nations are on monitor to quickly vaccinate all adults who need it, whereas scores of the world’s poorest countries have not inoculated a single individual.
It’s estimated that 10 countries have administered 75 p.c of the full vaccines and 130 countries haven’t been given a single dose. Canada has purchased 10 doses for each citizen, when solely two are wanted. Britain has entry to 400 million doses regardless of having a inhabitants of 66 million.
So Jennifer Lopez and the Foo Fighters performing in Hollywood is an inert exercise, akin to attempting to flip the lights on in a blackout.
One massive factor the organisers, an outfit referred to as Global Citizen, have pushed is that it will likely be freely obtainable to watch on YouTube, however so most of the individuals it’s supposed to assist don’t have wi-fi connections or the power to stream video.
It’s one more self-aggrandising circle of anointed saviours who don’t have a clue. Frankly, I’d be involved if governments listened to pop stars as they’re not certified to dispense recommendation on tackling a deadly, international pandemic.
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It is only pushed by the conceited optics of the elite.
We have a gaggle of American celebrities who really feel they need to stand up for poverty stricken, downtrodden nations in Africa and Asia primarily.
That is a mistake that they and their ilk carry on making.
The individuals they’re in search of to assist are not silly or requiring pity, they’ve distinct cultures and a lifestyle – they don’t need a multi-millionaire gyrating in SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles to save them.
There are center class households in these countries, loads of them have college levels and are greater than able to taking care of themselves.
The situation is the wealthy elite within the extra highly effective nations rig the system and forestall growth from taking place.
If any of them actually wished to assist out these poorer countries, then why don’t they pressure the world’s pharmaceutical firms to share the technical know-how about making the vaccines with these countries?
It wouldn’t be troublesome to begin producing it in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Afghanistan and locations of that ilk. After all, India is already one of many globe’s largest producers of the jabs.
What is so jarring about VAX LIVE is that it’s as if Covid-19 has uncovered a brand new downside.
Did they suppose every little thing was going swimmingly in these locations till the pandemic hit?
Maybe they did, and that’s their ignorance.
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We have to eradicate this mindset perpetrated by well-known faces of far-flung lands being locations to pity.
Because it’s our personal elite who metaphorically put them in a vice and proceed to squeeze.
The American army makes frequent incursions into locations it’s not wished or requested, however carries on regardless, abandoning a path of loss of life and destruction.
Look on the disasters they’ve created in Iraq, in Libya, in Afghanistan, in Syria.
Or how in regards to the blind eye the UK turns to the plight of the Palestinians, when it was the British that left them twisting within the wind by permitting Zionists to maul them from 1948 to at the present time?
These are only a few examples of the Western elites’ superiority complicated.
For too lengthy, they’ve assumed they know higher and can speak down to nations that don’t have the identical worldwide standing.
And that’s what VAX LIVE is all about. Even in the event that they do increase $22 billion and wire that over to these locations.
What about once we strike the subsequent iceberg?
Shall all of us fake that it’s a shock that we’re enjoying with loaded cube, and organise one other live performance to heal the world?
I’ve obtained an concept: Let’s see some precise structural change.
Let’s rip down the limitations that cease their economies growing.
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Disband these shady cabals just like the G7 and scrap nauseous golf equipment just like the IMF, the place rich countries have far larger voting rights and management who’s in cost.
It’s all about wealthy leaders plotting to hold every little thing inside their morally bankrupt, gold-leaf tent.
Stop supporting corrupt regimes just like the Gulf monarchies.
Change the system so these populations get a degree enjoying subject as that’s all they need.
And for this vaccine situation, there’s a easy resolution.
The US has ordered 1.2 billion doses for its inhabitants of 330mn, so together with the surpluses within the UK, Canada and Japan, that’s sufficient additional doses to roughly vaccinate everybody in Africa.
Sell it to them at price value and we are able to neglect listening to Mother Theresa-impersonating pop stars pretending they’re creating change.
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