found that in 2020, civil unrest rose by 10%. It counted 5,000 instances of pandemic-related violence in 158 countries. Violent demonstrations are more common than at any time since 2008. A broader measure that includes peaceful protests also rose, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, anlogged 51,549 demonstrations or riots. Counting only countries surveyed in both years, it detected a significant increase.
The collapse of tourism has had knock-on effects on the health system. Without the dollars holidaymakers used to splurge on hotel rooms and rum cocktails, the government is struggling to buy the ingredients it needs to make drugs. Painkillers, antibiotics, insulin, asthma medicine and diagnostic tests have become scarce, so people with easily treatable illnesses are forced to suffer. Good medical care is supposed to be one of the pillars of the revolution.
Too often, as in South Africa, those expectations have been dashed. The protests there earlier this month were stirred up at first by supporters of a justly jailed ex-president, Jacob Zuma, in an attempt to secure his release. But one of the reasons they snowballed into mass looting and the burning of shops and businesses was that so many South Africans are poor, jobless and furious about the corruption and rotten government that keeps them that way.
When covid-19 hit, “everything came to a stop; my business couldn't function,” says Patrick Dlamini, who fixes cars, which fewer people are driving because of covid-related curfews, and recycles bottles, which fewer people are draining because of the booze ban. “There’s no money,” he frets. The looting, he reckons, was caused by “a combination of Zuma and covid”.’s analysis shows that when pandemics impose economic hardship, the burden falls most heavily on the poor.
What’s more, the very act of protesting can generate a sense of solidarity. In Belarus, for example, the coronavirus inspired people to stand up to the regime. They got a taste for rebellion. The spark came in the spring of 2020 when Alexander Lukashenko, the country’s despotic leader, dismissed covid-19 as a “mass psychosis” and blamed his citizens for dying of it. The’s members advised citizens to stay at home and offered financial help.
Plenty of countries have avoided covid-related protests. India has been relatively quiet, in spite of its government’s mistakes. So has Malaysia, which coped well with covid-19 in 2020. But in these places, too, discontent is stirring. Critics of the Modi government in India have become louder, and now include fellow-travellers from his own Hindu-nationalist power-base.
Um... protests aren't supposed to have giant explosions. Those used to be called riots.
Let us try to become a Solution to Our Problems, not adding fire to fire.
I know there is anger and discontent in The World with illness and our Basic Needs not even being met, but Anarchy will bring more Anarchy; which will bring Disorder and Chaos. An Environment where you can neither think nor reason!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 In US, if they feel unhappy, They'll be like .... or.... Yes! Capitalism will cruelly kill people for profit！
why are people protesting in high income countries like france and italy?
In developed countries too 😎
Protest or riot...?
OECD : Discontent could slow countries' rebound from pandemic.
I'll take 'things no one is surprised to hear' for 1000, Alex or whoever this week's substitute Alex is.
good
Militarized police and brutality against protestors will do that
good luck
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