There is growing evidence that the coronavirus health crisis and our response to it are making developing countries, and vulnerable people and communities, suffer the most. Children, women, minorities, informal workers and the displaced are the most affected, according to the United Nations and the World Bank. Those fortunate enough to retain their jobs while working from home have consumed images of the extreme precarity faced by vulnerable people all over the world, including those of jobless migrant labourers walking back hundreds of miles in scorching heat to their villages in India. A recent Oxfam report termed the pandemic pathogen, ‘The Inequality Virus”, in that it has affected the rich temporarily but plunged millions globally into poverty. The head of the IMF has spoken of a “Great Divergence”- while rich countries that finance their own debt have spent over 20 percent of GDP to mitigate the impacts of the crisis, middle income and low-income countries have mobilised and 6 percent and 2 percent respectively.