Opinion - We are about to start a third year of living with COVID-19. The world's humanity and solidarity are now at its further test - and yet the implications of the absence of solidarity keep us all in the boat of mutations, lockdowns, quarantines and delayed SDGs - denied prosperity for all. 2021 has unearthed a new expression of global inequity: "vaccine nationalism" - which itself competes high with socioeconomic downturns, jobless growth, the climate crisis, and rising poverty.