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Parliament is obliged to meet now, because India’s constitution limits the gap between sessions to six months, and the COVID-19
pandemic
has forced all sessions to be suspended since March.
Unemployment is rife – some 21 million salaried jobs have been lost during the pandemic, and millions more in the informal sector, especially among day laborers, who are now unable to make ends meet.
The visible measures necessitated by the
pandemic
– face masks, greater distance between MPs, and plastic partition screens – may not be all that is different about this parliamentary session.
And with a vaccine yet to be developed, the path out of the
pandemic
– and the associated economic crisis – remains deeply uncertain.
The
pandemic
demands a forceful, immediate response.
The coronavirus
pandemic
is a wake-up call to stop exceeding the planet’s limits.
In the face of the current pandemic, Trump has embraced so-called vaccine nationalism and is refusing to participate in COVAX, an initiative supported by the World Health Organization that seeks to guarantee equitable distribution of any COVID-19 vaccine.
The COVID-19
pandemic
has starkly demonstrated that multilateral cooperation is not an option, but an obligation, and yet we are allowing many international organizations to decline before our eyes.
If the pole around which the international order was built continues to weaken, the dangerous drift of recent years – exemplified by the absence of a coordinated global response to the COVID-19
pandemic
– will continue.
And yet the COVID-19
pandemic
has caused some 40 million Americans to file for unemployment benefits, and the Federal Reserve projects that many will remain out of work for a prolonged period.
At the same time, challenges are becoming increasingly global in nature, with the
pandemic
being a case in point.
How to End the
Pandemic
This YearLONDON – Research to develop a safe, effective, and widely available COVID-19 vaccine is advancing rapidly.
Moreover, while universal testing remains a feasible, cost-effective, and immediately available method of managing the
pandemic
until a vaccine arrives, this approach also requires manufacturing capacity and sound governance in the public interest.
As has been demonstrated by the Nobel laureate economist Paul Romer, the epidemiologist Michael Mina, a recent IMF working paper, and many others, a properly designed universal testing program could bring the
pandemic
to an end within just a few months.
Many countries have the capacity to produce a sufficient supply of tests at a cost that would pale in comparison to those inflicted by the
pandemic.
Even under current conditions, increasing the production of tests and implementing a universal testing strategy is feasible, and could end the
pandemic
by year’s end, while also creating the infrastructure needed to ward off future pandemics.
Given the raging
pandemic
and economic collapse, Biden’s challenge may even be more difficult.
Though he was politically damaged by it, Trump didn’t pay the price he deserved for his disastrous mishandling of the pandemic, because he understood, and played upon, the contempt that many of his supporters have for “experts.”
Nonetheless, we are learning more about who produces fake
pandemic
news, and how to stop its circulation.
As we fight the virus, we also must battle junk
pandemic
news and misinformation.
Governments that adopt such measures justify them as necessary to combat the
pandemic.
But many of the policies adopted by authoritarian leaders in recent weeks are not just anti-democratic; they are also counterproductive in fighting the
pandemic.
Fortunately, civil-society organizations and individuals are not powerless in the face of
pandemic
crackdowns.
While the
pandemic
calls for social distancing, it does not justify police brutality and abuse of government power.
In responding to the pandemic, too many governments have sought to label COVID-19 a “Chinese” virus, setting the stage for surveillance and stigmatization of people of Chinese descent.
Even as we fend off new attacks on democracy and civil rights, we must use this moment to recognize all the ways our societies were stripping the rights of citizens, refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers before the
pandemic
hit.
China has certainly sought to make the most of the
pandemic.
Tedros, who has been accused of aiding China’s initial COVID-19 cover-up, may decide to wait until the
pandemic
has come “under control,” as Xi has proposed.
Future historians will regard the
pandemic
as a turning point that helped to reshape global politics and restructure vital production networks.
A
pandemic
that originated in China will likely end up weakening the country’s global position and hamstringing its future growth.
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