Deadly combination of virus and violence racks Latin America
Dr. Theodore Karasik
May 18, 2021 22:05
A demonstrator holds a sign reading They Are Killing Us during a protest against poverty and police violence, Bogota, May 4, 2021. (Reuters)
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While eyes may be focused elsewhere in our social media world, Latin America is not being spared continuing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) dilemmas amid rising infections and deaths during its third wave of the pathogen. The number of confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in Colombia has now passed 80,000, with intensive care units in the country’s largest cities almost full. Meanwhile, ongoing large, violent protests against a weak government are wracking the country. The third wave is now peaking and the risk that protests may be super-spreader events is rising as the country desperately tries to distribute and administer vaccine doses.
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It’s too soon to breathe easy over COVID-19
Dr. Theodore Karasik
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It seems fashionable to think the coronavirus crisis is over or is passing into memory thanks to vaccines and new protocols. It is not. The pyres in India are a reminder that COVID-19 is not gone, dissipated or any other wishful thinking.
What does the Indian situation mean in the bigger picture? COVID-19 variants and pathogen management are going to be key factors, even as some countries achieve success with their efforts to distribute vaccine doses. But the crowded market for vaccines and the increasing requirement to vaccinate in countries around the world needs to be addressed in earnest.
Why academia needs a rethink
Dr. Theodore Karasik
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It is a troubling fact that the quality of analysis in policy studies is becoming tragically sophomoric. Western academia, in fact academia in general, has declined from the days of intensive granular studies, replaced by a more linear approach to thinking without much depth of thought.
The current situation is the result of a decline in the quality of Western thinking that began not with 9/11, but rather the end of the Cold War. Some of this is generational in nature; younger generations increasingly lack the depth of knowledge necessary in the modern world. In other words, superficial analysis is flawed and is very bad for policymakers.
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