Game Teaches COVID Is Not a Game
CHENNAI, INDIA — The Coronavirus, aka COVID-19, is not a game. Especially in India. Just this past week, India supplanted UK as the country with the fourth most COVID cases worldwide. As of this date (June 15, 2020), the number of cases in India (342,841) has it only lagging the USA, Brazil and Russia.
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Although the U.S. leads the entire world in confirmed COVID cases (2.1 million) and deaths (118,000+), Americans crowded parks and beaches over the Memorial Day weekend as though nothing extraordinary was happening. That’s evidence that ‘we just don’t get it’ when it comes to the existential threat faced by people in developing countries where food is scarce, and poverty exists in extremes.
COVID is not a game.
While many would agree that COVID is not a game, the reality for others in America is that it and the lockdown are inconveniences. By contrast, millions of day laborers/ slum dwellers who face a marginal existence on a regular basis have had to decide how to survive during the pandemic.
These people are faced with extremely difficult decisions on a daily basis. Those decisions can mean the difference between deeper poverty, hunger, health, and survival. All too often, they face choosing the apparent lesser of two evils only to discover that they ultimately end up in the same place.
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