As we draw closer to the anniversary of the World Health Organization
declaring the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, many are hopeful that the
vaccine roll-out will help us return to our pre-pandemic “normal”. For a
certain privileged group of people, this would mean getting back the
“freedom” to travel anywhere they want. Indeed, their perceived “right” to holiday in far-away places where
tourists are provided with all comforts and freedoms to do as they
please has become almost sacrosanct. This has as much to do with
privilege, as it has with the way capitalism exploits labour.
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