Hola people! So apparently I looked up for today's news and all I found was the updates of Corona Vaccines, Farmer's protest, second and even worse version of Covid 19, aka Covid 20, except for the usual accidents and stuff.
So how is the last month of this cursed year gonna pass? 🤔
Talking about the vaccine for Covid-19, it's a really hopeful news and perhaps something you can be relieved about. Scientists of many countries have tried their vaccines on their citizens, with all of them claiming the vaccines to be really effective. Even if there is a vaccine developed successfully, governments of all the effected countries gotta make sure each and every person is vaccinated, and that's going to be a tough task. So for now, we can only hope for the best and take our precautions.
Talking about Farmer's Protest, what is this entire protest about ? What do India’s new farm laws do?
Since 26th November 2020, the borders of Delhi have been witnessing a huge agitation being carried out by farmers, most of them from Punjab and Haryana.
The farmers are protesting against 2 Farm Bills that the Rajya Sabha recently passed: (1) The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, and (2) the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020.
The two bills had already cleared the lower house – the Lok Sabha. When they were introduced in the Rajya Sabha, there was ruckus and finally, the Bill was passed through a voice vote.
The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 : This Bill allows the farmers to sell their produce outside the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) regulated markets. The APMCs are government-controlled marketing yards or mandis. So, the farmers clearly have more choice on who they want to sell. The government's logic, economic expert Gurcharan Das writes in TOI, is that the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) is an obsolete institution from an age of scarcity, meant to protect the farmer but has now become his oppressor, a monopoly cartel fixing low prices for the farmers' produce, forcing distress sales.
How will the Bills benefit the farmers?
Gurcharan Das, expert as he is in the field of economics, points out that the three farm laws offer three basic freedoms to the farmer.
Despite four rounds of talks with two of them involving a 3-minister panel of the government and a few dozen representatives of the farmers' unions, the impasse has not been broken. The Centre is also said to have offered a written guarantee that MSP will not be withdrawn. Farmers' lobby is not ready to accept that and demands the repeal of the recently passed Farm Bills.
Why are the farmers upset?
The farmers of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and Haryana are angry with the provisions of these Bills as they are afraid that these Bills may be the platform that the government (at the Centre) is setting up for the replacement or scrapping of the otherwise robust support system prevalent in their states for the purchase of their crops. They fear that the Minimum Support Price (MSP) guarantee that was their safety net since the Green Revolution of the 1960s kicked in, maybe snatched away from under the pretext of giving the farmers more playing ground and better platforms.
(Credits - TimesNow)
In my opinion, if their are multiple protests in a country within the same year, then you know something's definitely wrong with the people in power.
Covid 20 : Y'all know how terrible this year has been, with millions being affected by Covid - 19 and now, with the year ending we've got an even worse version of the damned virus 😭
Looks like the Mayans wanted to mention 2021 as the year the world would end, but accidentally wrote 2012 in their manuscript.
“Over the last few days, thanks to our world-class genomic capability, we have identified a new variant of the coronavirus, which may be associated with the faster spread in the South of England,” UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of commons on December 14. UK authorities have already notified the World Health Organization about the variant.
What do we know so far about transmissibility, and severity of disease?
On Sunday, PHE said data from whole-genome sequencing, epidemiology and modelling suggests that the new variant “transmits more easily than other strains”. However, it is also emphasised that there is “no evidence” that the variant is more likely to cause severe disease or mortality. "But we are continuing investigations to understand this better,” it said. It said mortality is a "Laggging indicator” and it will “Continually monitor this over the coming weeks”.
Fellas, all I can say right now, is that try to be positive. This year has been a rollercoaster for everyone, and it's time we stop bringing each other down and start showing love to our fellow humans.❤
Rest I've got to write a whole another blog on my ending speech for 2020 😀 I'll be posting that on New Year's Eve, so stay tuned. Until then, adios! 😘
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