Some 250 million people were infected in three weeks
Both notions fit pretty well for what is being unleashed upon the world at the moment from China and from Russia and from that allied arc of theocratic fascism that persists as a lash upon the backs of millions of people, mostly women, from Tehran to Kabul. We’ll start off with that last horror show. It can be understood just as well by reversing Marx’s dictum.The NP Comment newsletter from columnist Colby Cosh and NP Comment editors tackles the important topics with boldness, verve and wit.
The tragedy that came of those lies is not only the reduction of Afghan women to the state of slavery they endured during the Taliban’s last reign of terror in the 1990s, a looming famine and a humanitarian crisis rivalling that of Ethiopia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The eviction of Afghan women from universities this past month is just the half of it. It’s what’s going to become of the boys that should worry you just as much.
The tragedy behind what’s happening in China right now was the sequence of events at the place of origin and the outset of the global coronavirus pandemic three years ago.
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