Solidarnost u pandemiji i nakon nje – Solidarity in the pandemic and beyond

Pandemija je promijenila svijet na načine od kojih mnogih još nismo ni svjesni. Brojni su izazovi pred ljudskom civilizacijom. Era pandemije donijela je novu normalnost, ali i preispitivanje određenih vrijednosti.
Pandemija je pojačala i stare mržnje među onim koji se u različitim mržnjama i prije pronalazili “odgovore” na životna pitanja. I danas imamo one koji se odbijaju vakcinirati, oni traže odgovore u teorijama zavjere, u pričama o čipovanjima ljudi, u tajnim sumanutim planovima, neki od njih uključuju i namjerno kreiranje virusa. Svjedoci smo i politizaciji virusa, zasnovanoj upravo na iskorištavanju straha masa.
Ljudima je u pandemiji – a i nakon što je čovječanstvo konačno pobjedi – potrebna solidarnost. Važnost solidarnosti smo vidjeli prošle godine, po izbijanju pandemije, kada su države, narodi i ljudi među sobom se pomagali na razne načine, od medicinske opreme preko lijekova do pomoći u ljudstvu.
Kina je jedna od država koja je u tom smislu bila izuzetno aktivna. Početkom avgusta, predsjednik NR Kine Xi Jinping rekao je kako će ova država nastojati pružiti svijetu dvije milijarde doza vakcine protiv COVID-19 tokom cijele godine i ponuditi 100 miliona američkih dolara COVAX-u, mehanizmu koji se uglavnom brine za vakcinaciju građana zemalja u razvoju. Kina je posvećena izgradnji globalne zdravstvene zajednice za sve i svijetu je osigurala vakcine, posebno zemljama u razvoju. Zemlja je aktivno provodila zajedničku proizvodnju, koja ilustrira koncept cjepiva kao globalnog javnog dobra, naglasio je Xi.
Od septembra 2020. Kina je donirala vakcine u preko 100 zemalja kojima je vakcina bila hitno potrebna. U međuvremenu, Kina izvozi vakcine u više od 60 zemalja, s ukupnom količinom koja prelazi 770 miliona doza, po čemu je ova zemlja neprikosnoveni prvak. Ta praksa pokazuje da je Kini život ljudi na prvom mjestu i da je dostupnost vakcine diljem svijeta misao vodilja. Također, to pokazuje posvećenost Kine da pomogne zemljama u razvoju, kao i da jača multilateralizam i učini međunarodnu saradnju efikasnijom, kako je to tokom prošlomjesečnog govora naglasio član Državnog vijeća i Ministar vanjskih poslova NR Kine Wang Yi.
To je važan put koji treba nastaviti i nakon pandemije. Ljudi su „osuđeni na saradnju“, a ne na stalno vraćanje na stare dualnosti „dobro“ protiv „zla“, „mi“ protiv „njih“. To neće donijeti dobra nikome, nego će samo usporiti čovječanstvo u prevazilaženju globalnih problema, nevezanih samo za pandemiju i zdravstvo nego i za druga pitanja koja iščekuje čovječanstvo kao zajednicu zajedničke sudbine čovječanstva.

Faruk Borić
glavni urednik magazina “Glas Kine”

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The pandemic has changed the world in ways many of which we are not even aware of yet. There are many challenges facing human civilization. The era of the pandemic brought a new normality, but also a re-examination of certain values.
The pandemic has intensified old hatreds among those who have previously found “answers” to life’s questions in various hatreds. Even today we have those who refuse to be vaccinated, they look for answers in conspiracy theories, in stories about chipping people, in secret crazy plans, some of them include the deliberate creation of a virus. We are also witnessing the politicization of the virus, based precisely on exploiting the fear of the masses.
In a pandemic – and even after humanity finally wins – people need solidarity. We saw the importance of solidarity last year, after the outbreak of the pandemic, when states, nations and people helped each other in various ways, from medical equipment to medicines to helping humanity.
China is one of the countries that has been extremely active in that regard. In early August, Chinese President Xi Jinping said the country would seek to provide the world with two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine throughout the year and offer $ 100 million to COVAX, a mechanism that mainly cares about vaccinating citizens of developing countries. China is committed to building a global health community for all and has provided vaccines to the world, especially to developing countries. The country has been actively pursuing joint production, which illustrates the concept of the vaccine as a global public good, Xi stressed.
Since September 2020, China has donated vaccines to over 100 countries that urgently needed the vaccine. Meanwhile, China exports vaccines to more than 60 countries, with a total quantity exceeding 770 million doses, making this country the undisputed champion. This practice shows that China’s people’s lives come first and that the availability of vaccines around the world is a guiding thought. It also demonstrates China’s commitment to helping developing countries, as well as strengthening multilateralism and making international cooperation more effective, said Wang Yi, a member of the State Council and Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China, during a speech last month.
This is an important path to continue after a pandemic. People are “doomed to cooperate”, not to constantly return to the old dualities of “good” against “evil”, “we” against “them”. It will not bring good to anyone, but will only slow humanity in overcoming global problems, unrelated only to the pandemic and health but also to other issues that await humanity as a community of the common destiny of mankind.

Faruk Boric
editor-in-chief of “Voice of China”