Friday, April 23

Please Tell Me We're Testing and Quarantining Anybody -- American Citizen or Not -- coming into the country from India these days?

 Please tell me we are not flying in planeloads of people escaping the sickness over there flying into US cities, where another outbreak here will likely travel into the countryside this summer and fall?

No offense but... a year in, why was India so unprepared?  Yes, there is poverty and castes and too many people living in crowded conditions.  But in the places that are not third-world, wasn't there any time to mask up, socially distance, stay at home, and put up hospital supplies and necessary equipment?

Let the desi diaspora send help, certainly, but we cannot afford to allow everyone's auntie or uncle or cousin into our country now for shelter.  Maybe, if the pandemic spreads through all classes in India, they too will learn that in times of trouble, the rich can no more be sheltered and protected --- except in extreme isolation -- than the poorest of the poor, and perhaps a society more intertwined economically -- like the middle class America of years past -- will serve them better in the long run than the caste system.

Truth be told, it would help protect the elite globetrotters too, whose wealthy ambitions to see it all, everywhere!, often outrun, or fly faster than anyway, their common sense or concerns for humanity beyond their own lineages....