The Pope asks to "abandon our individualisms and promote the common good".
For this we need "a spirit of justice that mobilizes us to ensure universal access to the vaccine and the temporary suspension of intellectual property rights".
Thus Pope Francis in a video message to young people participating in the "Vax Live", a charity event to support the global and equitable distribution of vaccines. We need "a spirit of communion that allows us to generate a different, more inclusive, equitable and sustainable economic model". "The pandemic has put us all in crisis, but let's not forget that we do not come out of a crisis the same, or we come out better or worse".
Society needs "a healing of the roots, which heals the cause of the disease and does not remain only on the symptoms. In these sick roots we find the virus of individualism, which makes us neither freer nor more equal nor more brothers, indeed it makes us indifferent to the suffering of others. And a variant of this virus - the Pope emphasizes - is closed nationalism, which prevents, for example, an internationalism of vaccines. Another variant is when we put the laws of the market or intellectual property over the laws of love and the health of humanity ", concludes the Pontiff.