It exacerbates preexisting conditions of inequality wherever it goes, and before long, uprisings will be one of the side effects trib.al/TvsPfcA
From 🇫🇷France to 🇸🇩Sudan, 🇭🇰Hong Kong to 🇧🇴Bolivia, there’s been about 100 large anti-government protests since 2017. About 20 of these toppled leaders trib.al/Fcg0eNB
While the wealthy can work safely from home, countless other Americans don’t have that option: The less money you make, the less likely you are to be able to work remotely trib.al/Fcg0eNB
As they do, they risk getting infected and bringing the virus home to their families trib.al/Fcg0eNB
💶Average incomes
🏘️Population density
🍲Nutritional habits
In the euro zone, high-income households have almost double the living space as those in the bottom decile trib.al/Fcg0eNB
🚱Those living in a shantytown in India or the Philippines can’t socially distance because the whole family sleeps in one room. There are no masks to wear, and sometimes no running water to wash hands trib.al/Fcg0eNB
Most of the people that will be affected were already poor trib.al/Fcg0eNB
Millions of Brazilians bang pots and pans from their windows to protest the government. Lebanese prisoners riot in their overcrowded jails (video via @QuickTake)
But tragedy and trauma will continue to build up until one way or another, they erupt trib.al/Fcg0eNB