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This article considers the disparities in the responses to COVID-19 between Canada and some countries in the Global South. It is an attempt to consider how the impacts of the pandemic--lockdown and quarantines--are experienced differently based on the economic circumstances of the Global South versus the Global North. This short paper underlines how COVID-19 is narratively framed as a pandemic primarily because it has the ability to impact people in the Global North; it highlights the fact that endemic (and easily curable) diseases are common in the Global South but rarely receive such global attention and never have such resources made available to fight them. The author asks readers to consider the cost of the fight against COVID-19 on populations like the urban poor and migrants and refugees who are already vulnerable to mistreatment, hunger, malnutrition and death because of their precariousness within the neo-liberal global order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]