Governmental Leadership during the Pandemic- alacrity and Absence of it

While it's absolutely acceptable and expected that the Heads of States for each country has to first take care of the immediate needs in their own Nations, the inability to realise that the World is an extended community not just in the eyes of an ethical pursuit but also, alas, in the eyes of the Pathogen. A thought of clairvoyance in realising that controlling a country/countries alone would be monumentally short of the requirement but an expeditious and equitable handling of the situation, in terms of the spread and quantum of the Vaccines and connected paraphernalia, was grossly as well as agonisingly missing. Time to realise that as a Global community, we are regretfully short of that preeminent Leadership requirement, that sees and acts as Humanity rather than a curtailed herd of peoples living in political boundaries.

Another similar example, though in a different gravity, is while the World was involved in local battles with the Virus, the World Travel Bodies or the World Leadership failed to moot things to get ready when eventually things would have eased off. A glaring example is that even after 19 months of the beginning of Pandemic and 14 months after the advent of the Vaccines, still there is no standardised parameters or mutually accepted norms between the countries to recognise the digital or physical documents of the Covid-19 in terms of Vaccination Certificates and/or the Test results. Individual countries follow their own best conceived standards and when the passengers travel from one country to another, they go through traumatic and prolonged methods to prove that they have indeed been vaccinated or tested. No industry driven common QR code standards or Country acceptable seamless sharing of API or other data links to recognise a genuinely vaccinated individual. The fact that travel started to rebound more than 15 months back and still does not have standardised parameters or/and mutually shared information, shows the hollowness of a certain aspect of the World Leadership community. And travel is just one of the many line items that would matter….

To many of us, it showed through the Political Leadership, especially in self-proclaimed Super-Powers and others, and left us gasping as to how incomplete our so-called circle of completeness is. While we are all thankful and are gratefully cognisant of what the Governments did for us in our own Countries, we are also woefully made aware of what it is, is what it is, when it comes to collective and collaborative approaches!