Conavirus......

[Yppej]

I heard today on the news there is a big uptick in child marriages in India due to covid. Families are selling off girls as young as 12 because they can no longer afford to feed them.

I imagine many folks here won't give a rat's behind about these poor girls, forced to drop out of school to marry grown men, and with their whole lives ahead of them harmed, so long as the economic restrictions in place prolong the lives of sick older Americans by weeks, months, or a small number of years.

And since my post last November India continues to suffer, and Americans here who like to beat their breasts about anything that impacts them are once again silent about the impact on folks who, as one of my critics put it, are on another continent.

Where is the handwringing, the panic, the fear?

[happystuff]

And since my post last November India continues to suffer, and Americans here who like to beat their breasts about anything that impacts them are once again silent about the impact on folks who, as one of my critics put it, are on another continent.

Where is the handwringing, the panic, the fear?

Okay, and since last November when you posted, YOU have done what in response to this?

[Teacher Terry]

Letting older people here die is not going to save anyone in India. Yes it’s sad how many in that country live and in many other countries.

[Tybee]

Letting older people here die is not going to save anyone in India. Yes it’s sad how many in that country live and in many other countries.

I think both situations are very bad, and neither situation causes the other. So I think it best to separate them and look at them as two separate bad situations,not one as causal for the other.

[iris lilies]

I think both situations are very bad, and neither situation causes the other. So I think it best to separate them and look at them as two separate bad situations,not one as causal for the other.

It almost sounds like, Tybee, you are saying my mother was wrong all those years of my childhood. When she said I should think of all of those starving children in India and eat my dinner, she had no real point!

haha just kidding you. And my mom never made that time worn argument.

[Tradd]

One of the two owners of my new company is Indian. We just sent out a shipment of 50 O2 concentrators. The company has been working with a charity in India and built a 100 bed hospital within the past couple of years.

[JaneV2.0]

And the US government is sending vaccines to India, so we are doing something.

[Tradd]

More than that. Heard on the radio news this morning that a military cargo plane went over with a lot of supplies, including O2.

[JaneV2.0]

That's good news, Tradd. The stories emerging about desperate attempts to get oxygen there are hard to hear.

[jp1]

Desantis just signed a pro-covid bill that bans localities or individual businesses from trying to keep people safe so maybe we’ll get to also be concerned about Florida.