It's been impossible for a certain generation of Indian to simply give up hope about the future of the country. But that's changing, writes @andymukherjee70. bloom.bg/3o57dyk
The crisis in India now is different to the ones weathered by past generations. The walls are closing in again, and the opportunity for the country is shrinking. bloom.bg/3o57dyk
It doesn't just feel as though India is not moving forward, but that it's moving backward: arbitrariness in policymaking, defeatist slogans and religious discord being used to divide people are once again commonplace bloom.bg/3o57dyk
The state's response to Covid-19 has, frankly, been inept. With more than 9 million infections, India is the second-worst affected country after the United States bloom.bg/3o57dyk
Certain generations of Indians have started to lose hope because of what they've seen the country go through. They've seen violent change, room to be optimistic, economic paralysis and development that has been too slow bloom.bg/3o57dyk
But there's still time to salvage the country: India must embrace an open, transparent partnership with global investors. Hundreds of millions more would get a shot at prosperity. bloom.bg/3o57dyk
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Covid-19 has revealed in painful detail that the U.S. is falling behind much of the world, not just in health care, but in most of the functions of government.
Simply removing Trump won’t solve the problem trib.al/p7TYvi0
Instead, Biden should do what other great presidents have done when their country has started to fall behind:
Now is a great time to develop a serious budgeting habit.
2021 might bring changes to your annual income. If your yearly salary is north of $400,000 you could see higher taxes trib.al/upYCliU
Biden will want to spend a lot to save the economy and lives from Covid-19.
Those hardest hit by the K-shaped recession might get another stimulus check and more unemployment benefits. Look at your finances now so that you’re prepared trib.al/upYCliU
A nation should run deficits; households should avoid them.
People without budgets are more likely to fall into debt — and anxiety. But search for “how to create a budget” and most results are inadequate trib.al/upYCliU
Three of every four rural counties in the U.S. are in what the White House Coronavirus Task Force defines as a “red zone.”
The virus is spreading out of control in rural America, and it’s getting worse by the day trib.al/VyeEHLO
The 10 counties with the highest number of cases per resident are all nonmetropolitan areas with fewer than 50,000 people.
To some extent, resistance to wearing masks and social-distancing has played a role in these outbreaks trib.al/VyeEHLO
But the explosion of Covid in rural communities isn’t a simple morality tale.
In most of these areas, the virus has intensified vulnerabilities decades in the making, and worsened chronic problems that can’t be solved with public-awareness campaigns trib.al/VyeEHLO
🥶 Dining in the freezing cold
📺Watching a virtual Macy’s parade
🦃Carving the bird over Zoom
Thanksgiving in 2020 is going to be like no other in U.S. history, with the CDC advising that people postpone travel and stay home as much as possible trib.al/u6M6Glp
Despite the precautions many are taking around Turkey Day this year, some are still gearing up for private gatherings with friends and relatives.
Unless you've already established a pod, there's no realistic way to be 100% safe.
While risk can be reduced with pre-isolation and other measures, unless precautions are followed strictly by everyone, they're more theater than protection trib.al/u6M6Glp
In early November, 20,000 people marched out on the streets of Leipzig, Germany to protest coronavirus restrictions.
Flouting all rules, about 90% of the marchers refused to wear masks trib.al/gObEgCM
A similar rebellion against social-distancing rules has happened before. Seeing quarantines and lockdowns as unfair and tyrannical punishments, people took to the streets.
The year was 1625, the place was London, the disease was plague trib.al/gObEgCM
Back to 2020, people have marched, rioted or protested from Trafalgar Square to the Michigan Statehouse, sometimes armed with guns.
There have been more than 30 major protests in 26 countries between March and October just against Covid rules trib.al/gObEgCM