Global populism: Big promises, poor pandemic results
Posted on AllSides May 1st, 2021
From The Center
ANALYSIS
On a quiet evening in a New Delhi market, the normal crowd of customers thinned by lockdown rules, Anirban Mukherjee sat exhausted. He had spent frantic days scrambling to find a cylinder of oxygen for a friend’s mother with a critical case of COVID-19. He had finally located one, but it wasn’t enough.
No hospital had a bed for her. The woman succumbed without treatment.
This is but one story of the heartbreak now playing out daily in India, currently in the grip of a record-breaking wave of the pandemic....
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