The stories of right-wing resilience in both Brazil and Uruguay are a testament to the importance of proper political leadership and attitude towards public health policy. Uruguay’s successful empowerment of scientists has allowed it to handle the COVID-19 crisis relatively well, especially compared to Brazil’s politicization of the topic.
"In the future, we will need to make the case — and this will be up to your generation — why normal Americans should care about what’s happening in Syria, China, Hong Kong, or wherever. The world is interconnected, and we’ve got people in almost every city in the United States that either import items from other countries or sell goods to other countries. And so people have to understand that we are interconnected — and that is a good thing."
Organ harvests, forced sterilization of women, psychological torture, and forced family separations—the hallmarks of the Xinjiang region in China. Uyghur Muslims live in fear...
Societal responses to COVID-19 demonstrate how culture is a muscle of social interaction that, in addition to reverting to ingrained habits, also is capable of adapting to new struggles and pressures.
