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A few bright spots: our country of the year

The Intelligence from The Economist

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The Pandemic Has Given Authority, N Leaders as Well as Democratic Leaders

The pandemic has given authority, n leaders as well as democratic leaders, an excuse to bring in a broad range of restrictions on civil society. You add to that that in people's livelihoods have been destroyed in many of these countries and what all f this has done is just hand more and more power to central governments to make rules. And once they make these s, they're not going to give up these extra pas that they've accumulated very easily. The omens are not good.

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