Opinion | During Covid, I left the U.S. for India. Here's what's different (and what's not).

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On social media, I see my friends in America visiting art galleries, enjoying happy hours and planning vacations. The contrasts stagger me.

The variations in a country of more than a billion people have been flattened out beyond our borders; my friends and family overseas have one general understanding of what is happening. We stay glued to our screens, scrolling through a never-ending feed of catastrophe and doing what we can to help others. They serve as windows into our shared disaster but also give us hope, as we see moments of human connection in which calls for help are answered by strangers and bear witness as people come together through art, volunteering and fundraising to save lives.

 

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