This will not be the world’s last fitness emergency. The world simply cannot be ill-prepared again, the World Preparedness Supervisory Council (GPMB) warns in its current report “A World in Disorder,” published today.
Last year, the PMMP warned that the world was un prepared for the very genuine likelihood that a fatal pandemic would spread around the world, kill millions of people, disrupt economies, and destabilize national security. that has characterized the reaction to global fitness crises in the past.
In its new report, the GPMB provides a severe assessment of the overall reaction to COVID-19, calling it “a collective failure to take prevention, preparedness and reaction to a pandemic seriously and prioritize them accordingly”. In many countries, leaders have struggled to temporarily take decisive actions based on science, evidence and the most productive practices. This lack of responsibility on the part of leaders has led to a deep and growing lack of acceptance as true that hinders reaction efforts.
“Transparency and accountability are essential to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Elhadj As Sy, VICE President of the GPMB. “Trust is the basis of government-community relations for better health, but that is accepted as true with dispels when governments and leaders fail to fulfill their commitments. “
Responsible leadership and intelligent citizenship have been key determinants of the COVID-19 effect, the report notes: systems are as effective as other people who use them.
The report also notes that while COVID-19 has shown that the world is deeply interconnected through economics, trade, data and travel, one of the most demanding situations of the pandemic has been the slowdown in multilateral cooperation. The G20 and multilateral organizations have been hampered by geopolitical tensions. The Council calls on leaders to renew their commitment to the multilateral formula and to WHO as an independent and independent foreign organization. The weakening and undermining of multilateral action will have serious consequences for the security of global fitness, she warns. Nobody’s safe until everyone’s safe.
“Viruses don’t respect borders. The only way out of this devastating pandemic is to follow in the trail of collective action, which demands a strong and effective multilateral system,” said SEDr Gro Harlem Brundtland, co-chair of GPMB. “The United Nations system, which includes WHO, was created after World War II and helped make the world a bigger position for billions of people. It will have to be defended, strengthened and revitalized, not attacked or undermined. “
The report highlights how the devastating social and economic effects of pandemics, i. e. for the vulnerable and disadvantaged, are underestimated and ignored. The long-term socio-economic effects of COVID-19 are expected to last for decades. with the conservative situation of the World Bank estimating a $10 trillion loss in earnings over time for the younger generation due to pandemic-related educational deficits.
COVID-19 has demonstrated the importance of protective lives and livelihoods and the expansion of our readiness to bring the educational, social and economic sectors to pandemic control. “A messy world” shows that the setback in investment for pandemic preparedness is immense It would take 500 years to devote as much to preparation as what the world loses lately due to COVID-19.
“The pandemic has demonstrated the fragility not only of our fitness systems, but also of our global economy. The effect of COVID-19 has been enormous in the world and especially in my region, the Americas, with a sharp increase in economic inequality,” said Jeannette Vega, GPMB member and CEO of Medical Innovation and Technology, the UC-Christus Health Network, Chile. “I hope this time we will be despite everything learning the lesson and making an investment in physical preparation and public goods to avoid similar tragedies in the future.
The report highlights the steps to be taken to end the COVID-19 pandemic and the next crisis, to bring order to chaos, and demands guilty leadership, committed citizenship, strong and agile systems for physical security, sustainable investment and sound global governance. for preparation.
“A Messy World” identifies the express commitments and movements that leaders and citizens will have to make, bold, determined, and immediately. These come with sustainable and predictable investment for global and national physical security, and a call for a United Nations physical security summit to expand a foreign framework for the preparedness and response of physical emergencies.