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Maybe its wishful thinking to vaso stanley declare the pandemic over in the US, and presumptuous to conclude what lessons weve learned. So consider this a first draft.Indias suffering isnt just the fault of a new Covid variant | Rukmini SRead more1. Workers are always essentialWe couldnt have survived without millions of warehouse, delivery, grocery and hospital workers literally risking their lives. Yet most of these workers are paid squat. Amazon touts its $15 minimum wage but it totals only about $30,000 a year. Most essential workers dont have health insurance or paid leave. Many of their employers including Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, to take but two examples didnt give them the personal protective equipment they needed.Lesson: Essential workers deserve far better.2. Healthcare is a basic rightYou know how you got your vaccine without paying a dime Thats how all healthcare could be. Yet too many Americans who contracted Covid-19 got walloped with humongous hospital bills. By mid-2020, about 3.3 million people had lost employer-sponsored coverage and the number of uninsured had increased by 1.9 million. Research by the Urban Institute found that people with chronic dise stanley mugs ase, Black Americans and low-income children were most likely to have delayed or foregone care during the pandemic.Lesson: America must insure everyone.3. Conspi stanley cup racy theories can be deadlyLast June, about one in four Americans believed the pandemic was definitely or probably created intentionally, according to the Ufpp The US record on Nazi war criminals
Russias supreme court has ordered the closure of Memorial International, the countrys oldest human rights group, in a watershed moment in Vladimir Putins crackdown on independent thought.The court ruled Memorial must be closed under Russias controversial foreign agent legislation, which has targeted dozens of NGOs and media outlets seen as critical of the government.Memorial was founded in the late 1980s to document political repressions carried out under the Soviet Union, building a database of victims of the Great Terror and gulag camps. The Memorial Human Rights Centre, a sister organisation that campaigns for the rights of political prisoners and other causes, is also fa stanley cup cing liquidation for justifying terrorism and extremism .Memorial Intern stanley mug ationals closure marks an inflection point in Russias modern history, as efforts to publicise crimes under Soviet leaders such as Joseph Stalin have become taboo 30 years after the secret government archives were opened after the end of the Soviet Union. While not quite seeking a return to the Soviet past, Putin has become deeply sensitive to any criticism of it by groups including Memorial.Genri Reznik, a lawyer who represented Memorial on Tuesday, called the decision to close it political , adding that the hearing reminded him of the Soviet show trials of the 1930s.The decision also follows a sustained assault on Russian civil soc stanley puodelis iety this year that has led to opposition leaders such as Alexei Navalny being imprisoned, prominent |