@satby: Happily, we are in a blue dot in a red area… much like Athens GA or Austin TX, on a smaller scale.
For years I worked in a sensitive local position which required me to be deliberately non-partisan. Now, being unemployed, I have a head of steam built up!
Unleashed it on one of those clowns who wears their mask under their nose in the grocery store the other day.
Me: “Hey, why don’t you wear your mask right?”
He: “Mind your own business.”
Me: gesturing to the entire deli area, “It IS my business! You’re spreading your germs everywhere in here.”
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LISBON, Portugal
On the list of things not to do during a pandemic, holding big international gatherings is close to the top.
But European Union leaders and their large following of diplomats and advisers are meeting in Portugal on Friday for two days of talks, sending a signal that they see the threat from COVID-19 on their continent as waning, amid a quickening vaccine rollout.
Their talks hope to repair some of the damage the coronavirus has caused in the bloc, in such areas as welfare and employment. In a late addition to their agenda, EU leaders will also discuss Thursday’s U.S. proposal to share the technology behind COVID-19 vaccines to help speed the end of the pandemic.
In this file photo, Indian PM Narendra Modi arrives to attend the Independence Day celebrations at the historic Red Fort in Delhi on August 15, 2020. Reuters
A man wearing a protective suit performs the last rites before the cremation of his relative who died of Covid-19 at a cremation ground in New Delhi on May 6. AFP
With coronavirus cases still surging to record levels, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing growing pressure to impose a harsh nationwide lockdown amid a debate whether restrictions imposed by individual states are enough.
Many medical experts, opposition leaders and some of the Supreme Court judges have suggested the lockdown seems to be the only option with the virus raging in cities and towns, where hospitals are forced to turn patients away while relatives scramble to find oxygen.
Synopsis
While the crisis in India has created diplomatic and humanitarian challenges for the Biden administration, for Harris it is also personal: Her mother was born there, and she s spoken emotionally throughout her political career about the influence of her many visits to India as a child.
US Vice President Kamala Harris family in India grapples with COVID-19
G. Balachandran turned 80 this spring a milestone of a birthday in India, where he lives. If not for the coronavirus pandemic, he would have been surrounded by family members who gathered to celebrate with him.
But with the virus ravaging his homeland, Balachandran had to settle for congratulatory phone calls. Including one from his rather famous niece: Vice President Kamala Harris.