The pandemic sent 32 million people in India from the middle class last year. Now a second wave is threatening the dreams of millions more looking for a better life.
Love pieces like this that pretend that the pandemic single handedly is upheaving the lives of the poor and that the innocent political economic system has nothing to do with it.
I love it when they slip in a many economists too:
Yet Mr. Modi appears unwilling to repeat last year’s draconian lockdown, which left more than 100 million Indians jobless and which many economists blame for worsening the pandemic’s problems.
Love pieces like this that pretend that the pandemic single handedly is upheaving the lives of the poor and that the innocent political economic system has nothing to do with it.
yeah the framing is pretty hilarious
I love it when they slip in a many economists too:
They gotta blame both the cure and the disease.
this is especially hilarious given that we have empirical evidence now that this is a false dichotomy in the first place https://theconversation.com/data-from-45-countries-show-containing-covid-vs-saving-the-economy-is-a-false-dichotomy-150533