PORVOO, Finland, April 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Legal sociologist
and human rights activist, Dr. Johan
Beckman has added his voice to the many people that have
appealed to declare COVID-19 vaccines a global common good so that
the vaccines can be produced and distributed for free.
"Given that the USA dominates
the global politics, many were hoping that aside for trying to
impose its values and democratic systems all over the world, it
would come to rescue its partners and weaker states providing
vaccines, humanitarian aid and solutions for the disease that has
taken millions of lives, closed ,millions of businesses and locked
the world down, probably forever changing the way we interact,"
says Dr Johan Beckman, legal
sociologist and a human right activist from Finland. "Pragmatic policies that
implied isolation from its partners and lobbying its
pharmaceutical companies resulted in a certain increase in
anti-American sentiment, panic of small powers not receiving
vaccine in the required amount and a change in America's image from
a "global savior" to a "global policeman".
The pandemic turned out to be very unpleasant and painful for
the global economy. In addition, it initiated the "vaccine race"
and associated information war. Washington and London effectively sabotaged all agreements on
the COVAX system, which provides for the distribution of vaccines
to countries that cannot produce them on their own.
The global leaders who joined the appeal for free distribution
of vaccines highlight the fact that the less evenly the vaccines
are distributed, the longer the world will live in conditions of
closed borders and suffer from an economic recession. Yet, the
attempts of India, China and especially Russia to provide vaccines and deploy its
production globally face lots of resistance in the media.
"The administrations change, yet the policies remain the same
for Donald Trump and Joe Biden despite their rivalry. We do hope
though that the vaccine policies can be changed at the global level
in order to focus on the common good, not selfish interests of the
states," - concludes Dr Johan
Backman.
https://johanbackman.ru/official-biography
Erkki Johan Bäckman (born 18 May
1971) is a Finnish political activist, author and legal
sociologist.