We all know by now: the coronavirus is here to stay.
Despite multiple attempts over the last decades, the mutability of the virus makes a vaccine impossible—just like the flu, only four times deadlier.
A new reality has dawned upon us: humanity is going to suffer a deadly global pandemic every year. This is our new normal. But our societies are not prepared for this.
One thing has become clear since the first pandemic in 2020: we need to re-organize our societies to accommodate our new reality. The global, dense, and hyper-connected societies that were built up until 2020 are no longer viable or safe.
It is urgent to re-think our societies by shifting our priorities, inventing new daily practices and forms of sociability, creating new forms of cities, services, infrastructures, and redefining our political systems and institutions.
But how?
In 2031, governments around the world agreed to create the GLOBAL PANDEMIC EXECUTIVE TASKFORCE (GPET) as a new new global governance organism with executive and legislative powers.
Since then GPET has been meeting every decade bringing together an international group of experts and leaders to address our new predicament by creating legislation to deal the global challenges produced by COVID-19.