By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
If going for zero succeeds as it has in Australia, Vietnam, Taiwan and New Zealand, then Canadians will live their lives normally with vaccine programs as part of the solution — as opposed to the only solution.
By Erik Assadourian, Gaianism
2020 was a year lived in fear—fear of the surprise arrival of a novel coronavirus, of not understanding it, of getting it, of watching a loved one get it—never being sure if they’d survive.
By Devi Sridhar, The Guardian blog
Our society’s recovery from this disease should be centred on building more equal, resilient societies, where people in all parts of the world have access to both protection from the disease and access to research developments.
By Regina Scheyvens, Apisalome Movono, The Conversation
But our research shows how people are surviving – and in some cases, thriving – in the face of significant loss of income. This is due in part to their reliance on customary knowledge, systems and practices.
By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
The reality is that pandemics don’t stop on a dime, vaccines can’t be rushed and their safe delivery is quite complicated.
By Sam Pizzigati, Inequality.org
The headlines that trumpet coronavirus boondoggles have become, in effect, the rain on our yes-we-now-have-a-vaccine! parade. How could some be making billions off the horror that’s killing millions?
By Dora Taylor, Landworkers Alliance
COVID-19 has raised significant questions about meat production, and Lutfi and Ruby Radwan have added their voices to the chorus of environmental campaigners, scientists and animal welfare advocates arguing that the pandemic is a direct result of industrial-scale meat production.
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
Keeping the patrol, the camp, the meals, the sobriety, and the testing in the hands of Native community members is “innovative and grassrootsy,” but at the same time it’s all part of the promise forebearers made to keep the peace when they signed the treaties, Angel notes.
By Olivia Oldham, Sustainable Food Trust
One thing this pandemic has made clear is that food doesn’t come from supermarket shelves. It never did. Food comes from the soil, the sea – and the hands of people.
By Breanna Draxler, YES! magazine
As the U.S. considers how to reopen, stimulate, and recover its economy post-pandemic, how radically could it be reimagined?
By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
There is no quick way out of this pandemic, but there is an assured way forward. It requires competent government, flexible economies and attentive citizens.
By Paulo Petersen, Denis Monteiro, Agroecology Now!
More than ever, public support for healthy food production and distribution shows itself as a win-win strategy that is indispensable for combining long-standing social and economic challenges, now aggravated by the COVID-19 outbreak.