What a Time it is

Description

The 2020 COVID19 pandemic, just happened. Pandemics have occurred before, some have mutated, some came and went, all killed. Science at it’s most brilliant is no match for fake news or political pressures.

This painting represents an event that “just happened” an uncontrolled explosion of a globally infectious, hostile and deadly virus aggressively mutating. How it happened is important, how it took global control is important, and why some countries did better at infection control than others is important, even more so. The world did pool many of its resources in vaccine development, testing, approval and manufacture. Like infection control some countries have done better than others in vaccine logistics and population immunisation.

Yet infection and immunisation success are bedevilled by political intransigence, alternative facts, and notions that populations are expendable as long as industry and commerce are allowed to thrive. If these pressures are allowed to continue, “it just happened” will not be restricted and life as we know it now will continue to be endangered in many places across our planet with continuing dangers of a mutating virus reinfecting across borders.