Quote Originally Posted by Yppej View Post
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?