Omicron - Why Not?

Why can't the world see that a global pandemic requires a global solution?

2020 ought to have been the year when Climate Change and Covid focussed the minds of the world to form a nascent World Council with binding obligations for the well being of all mankind.

A world council would be charged with limited responsibilities for matters like the distribution of vaccines, vaccine information and the means to distribute and disseminate information for all.

All participating countries would be called upon to contribute according to their means. This could have been the silver lining.

This would also be the route to prepare for the challenges that are inevitably heading our way with Climate Change.

If a mutant arises that is highly transmissible and very deadly, then what's left of mankind is going to look very silly for not having laid its differences aside and doing this.

If no such mutant arises, and we did do this, no one is going to say it was a silly thing to do.

Comments will follow, saying how idealistic this is and mankind will never agree to do it. Yet nearly everyone agrees it would be the best way to tackle a global pandemic.

In a 21st century where technology brings us an ever-shrinking, ever more interconnected world forcing us all to live more cheek-by-jowl than ever, this could have been the nascent overarching body that could eventually be the mechanism that would swap out and out global competition for global collaboration. It could be the means to trade global conflict for global cooperation.

Covid could be a warning shot across the bows.

We all know this makes sense so why not?

Why not?