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Colonialist mindsets stifle global public health

Public health officers fumigate DEB Kavutiri Primary school in Embu North Subcounty where a teacher from the school succumbed to Covid 19. [Muriithi Mugo, Standard]

With globalisation, the world has become a massive, singular unit and no amount of restrictions can stop human interaction. It is inexcusable that after HIV/AIDS, Ebola, and Covid-19, the world and its political leaders still have not learnt from past mistakes.

Pandemics know no borders, race, or social class and it's selfish and myopic to fight a disease in a specific territory or region while ignoring your neighbours.

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