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Sunday, December 20, 2020

Americans Are Drinking More During The Pandemic (NPR) When the pandemic began spreading across the U.S. in March, stores, restaurants and schools closed down. But liquor stores in many parts of the U.S. were deemed essential and stayed open. Alcohol sales have ticked up during the pandemic, so maybe it’s a good time to ask yourself: Are you drinking more than you’d like to be? R. Lorraine Collins, a psychologist at the University of Buffalo, recommends asking yourself, “Are you keeping alcohol as ... a special beverage for limited situations, or are you engaging in alcohol use across the board?” A break from alcohol can lead to a range of outcomes. As we’ve reported, a 2016 British study of people who participated in a monthlong “Dry January” break, found that 82% said they felt a sense of achievement. “Better sleep” was cited by 62%, and 49% said they lost some weight. Maybe you hike farther, have better conversations or get better sleep. Notice if your life feels richer to you. If we’re stuck at home for now, why not give it a try? What do you have to lose?

‘Do as I say’: Anger as some politicians ignore virus rules (AP) Denver’s mayor flies to Mississippi to spend Thanksgiving with his family—after urging others to stay home. He later says he was thinking with “my heart and not my head.” A Pennsylvania mayor bans indoor dining, then eats at a restaurant in Maryland. The governor of Rhode Island is photographed at an indoor wine event as her state faces the nation’s second-highest virus rate. While people weigh whether it’s safe to go to work or the grocery store, the mayor of Austin, Texas, heads to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on a private jet after hosting a wedding for 20. California’s governor dines at a swanky French restaurant with lobbyists, none wearing masks, a day after San Francisco’s mayor was there for a birthday party. Both had recently imposed tough rules on restaurants, shops and activities to slow the spread of the virus. To the public’s chagrin, some of America’s political leaders have been caught preaching one thing on the coronavirus and practicing another. Sure, politicians have long been called out for hypocrisy. But during a pandemic that’s forced millions into seclusion and left many without paychecks, such actions can feel like a personal insult—reinforcing the idea “that some people just don’t have to follow the rules while the rest of us do,” says Rita Kirk, a professor of communications at Southern Methodist University. Pandemic-era hypocrisy has only deepened the polarization in a time already marked by division, emboldening those who doubt the seriousness of the virus and dividing people’s responses based on political affiliations.

Hacked networks will need to be burned ‘down to the ground’ (AP) It’s going to take months to kick elite hackers widely believed to be Russian out of the U.S. government networks they have been quietly rifling through since as far back as March in Washington’s worst cyberespionage failure on record. Experts say there simply are not enough skilled threat-hunting teams to duly identify all the government and private-sector systems that may have been hacked. FireEye, the cybersecurity company that discovered the intrusion into U.S. agencies and was among the victims, has already tallied dozens of casualties. It’s racing to identify more. “We have a serious problem. We don’t know what networks they are in, how deep they are, what access they have, what tools they left,” said Bruce Schneier, a prominent security expert and Harvard fellow. Many federal workers—and others in the private sector—must presume that unclassified networks are teeming with spies. Agencies will be more inclined to conduct sensitive government business on Signal, WhatsApp and other encrypted smartphone apps. The only way to be sure a network is clean is “to burn it down to the ground and rebuild it,” Schneier said.

College students recruited as teachers to keep schools open (AP) As the coronavirus sidelines huge numbers of educators, school districts around the country are aggressively recruiting substitute teachers, offering bonuses and waiving certification requirements in order to keep classrooms open. Coming to the rescue in many cases are college students who are themselves learning online or home for extended winter breaks. In Indiana, the 4,400-student Greenfield-Central school district about 20 miles (32 kilometers) east of Indianapolis made a plea for help as its substitute pool shrank. “I said, ‘If you’ve got a student who’s in college, maybe they’d like to work even a two-month thing for us—which would be a stopgap, no doubt—but it will help us a whole, whole bunch,” said Scott Kern, the Greenfield-Central Community School Corporation director of human resources. Over a dozen college students answered the call including his own daughter, 19-year-old Grace Kern, who is studying medical imaging technology at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. She has been working in elementary school classrooms, helping students as teachers offer instruction remotely via a screen inside the room.

An Ex-Governor Is Gunned Down, Punctuating a Deadly Year for Mexico (NYT) The former governor of the state of Jalisco was gunned down early Friday while vacationing in the resort city of Puerto Vallarta, the authorities said, a brazen killing that further illustrated the government’s struggles to rein in the deadly violence that has surged across Mexico over the past five years. The killing of the ex-governor, Aristóteles Sandoval, who was shot in the back inside a restaurant restroom, is one of the highest-profile political killings in Mexico in recent memory, security experts said. Mr. Sandoval was killed just hours before President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his cabinet delivered a grim update on the nation’s security situation during a news conference. More than 31,000 murders were recorded in Mexico this year as of November, the latest month for which government statistics are available, a figure roughly on pace with 2019. But homicides have nearly doubled over the past five years.

Bosnian city of Mostar gets a vote (AP) Irma Baralija is looking forward to Sunday, when she intends to vote and hopes to win her race as the southern Bosnian city of Mostar holds its first local election in 12 years. To make that vote possible in her hometown, the 36-year-old Baralija had to sue Bosnia in the European Court of Human Rights for letting a stalemate between two major nationalist political parties prevent her, along about 100,000 other Mostar residents, from voting or running in a municipal election for over a decade. By winning in court in October 2019, Baralija believes she has “busted the myth (that nationalist parties) have been feeding to us, that an individual cannot move things forward, that we matter only as members of our ethnic groups.” Left without fully functioning institutions, Mostar—one of the impoverished Balkan country’s main tourist destinations—has seen its infrastructure crumble, trash repeatedly pile up on its streets and hazardous waste and wastewater treatment sludge dumped in its only landfill, which was supposed to be for non-hazardous waste.

India’s virus cases cross 10 million as new infections dip (AP) India’s confirmed coronavirus cases have crossed 10 million with new infections dipping to their lowest levels in three months, as the country prepares for a massive COVID-19 vaccination in the new year. Dr. Randeep Guleria, a government health expert, said India is keeping its fingers crossed as the cases tend to increase in winter months. India is home to some of the world’s biggest vaccine-makers and there are five vaccine candidates under different phases of trial in the country.

Israel’s top-secret Mossad looks to recruit via Netflix, Hulu and Apple TV (Washington Post) After decades in the shadows, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, has been getting a lot of airtime, both on the news and in popular TV thrillers. In real life, details of operations attributed to Israel are in the open like never before, including the theft two years ago of a trove of nuclear secrets from inside Iran, last summer’s drive-by killing of al-Qaeda’s No. 2 in Tehran and the assassination last month of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. And on the screen, streaming hits like Apple TV Plus’s “Tehran,” Netflix’s “The Spy” and Hulu’s “False Flag” have starred the Mossad as a cold, ruthless and efficient machine. Far from squirming, the once-supersecret agency has welcomed the exposure, former spies say. The Mossad needs recruits. Military veterans who might have once made their career in national service now leave to work for lucrative start-ups, or found their own. Israeli companies Waze, Wix, Viber and others were started by intelligence veterans. In response, Yossi Cohen, the Mossad’s director since 2016 and a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has embarked on a hiring spree, increased the agency’s number of sabotage operations and enlarged its budget by billions of shekels. The Mossad’s recruitment drive includes a heightened social media presence and a calculated trickle of unconfirmed information about its exploits. And former spies say the agency is quietly embracing a slew of TV shows and movies that could do for the agency what “Top Gun” famously did for naval recruitment: make a life in the organization seem cool again.

Chaos and jubilation as freed Nigerian schoolboys reunite with family (Reuters) Parents sobbed, mobbed their children in hugs and even kissed the ground in gratitude on Friday as they reunited with scores of schoolboys who had been kidnapped a week earlier in northwest Nigeria. Hundreds of adults jostled to find their offspring among the 344 dusty and dazed looking children who had arrived by bus in Katsina state on Friday morning. Those who succeeded cheered and grabbed their children, but scores more were still waiting by early evening. “I feel like God has granted me paradise because I am so happy,” said an ebullient Hamza Kankara after she found her son, Lawal, in the crowd. Another man knelt and kissed the ground, thanking God for the return of his young son, before clutching the boy and sobbing.

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Starla Wehrli and Rio welcomed their first child on June 4, a day that marked the beginning of their new journey as a family of three.

But Indonesia’s newly updated immigration policy amid the COVID-19 pandemic might force their little family ⁠— and others ⁠— to separate in less than a month.

“I wouldn’t wish this feeling on anyone: to think that you have to leave your newborn baby in a matter of weeks. And then leave them for who knows how long,” Wehrli said.

Indonesia adopted emergency measures at the onset of the coronavirus outbreak in response to global travel restrictions amid the pandemic, and granted foreigners in the country emergency stay permits. On Monday, a new set of regulations came into force for various stay permits and visa holders in Indonesia, which has unsurprisingly been met with shock and backlash.

Wehrli is one of the many foreigners impacted by the latest regulations in Indonesia and ⁠— unless any significant changes occur ⁠— will have to leave the country by Aug. 12.

“I’m shocked. I’m standing there [at the immigration office] with my husband and 5-week-old daughter crying and begging them to help us. They said they cannot.”

Under normal circumstances, Wehrli’s status as a foreign national would only mean going through heaps of bureaucratic procedures common in Indonesia to secure the appropriate stay permit.

The 38-year-old American has been living in Bali for almost three years, and got married to Rio, who is Indonesian, last July. She’s been staying in the country with a temporary stay permit, or ITAS, which was originally sponsored by her employer in Indonesia.

With that ITAS having expired on July 3, Wehrli planned on changing it to a spouse-sponsored permit. But the newly announced immigration rules place her under the category of ITAS holders ineligible for extension, and with immigration not accepting new applications amid the pandemic, she will have to leave next month.

“I’m shocked. I’m standing there [at the immigration office] with my husband and 5-week-old daughter crying and begging them to help us. They said they cannot,” Wehrli said.

Wehrli has limited options. She is trying to get her daughter an emergency passport so both mother and daughter can at least stay together, but with the ongoing pandemic it might take three to four weeks to process. With other paperwork required to bring her daughter along for the journey, there may not be enough time to process things before she is due to leave.

“There is no way for me to leave with her unless she has her paperwork,” the new mother said.

“We also met with her pediatrician today who said she is not fit to fly. She is too young, she’s not had her vaccines ⁠— it’s too risky even in one month.”

Kailene Klix and Kadek Dwi Devayana got married on July 5. Photo courtesy of Kailene Klix.

It’s a different yet similar story for Kailene Klix, who may not have enough time to arrange everything to stay with her husband, a Balinese man named Kadek Dwi Devayana, here in Indonesia.

The couple, who met one and a half years ago, had to weather through language barriers and Kadek’s traditional Balinese family before their relationship was accepted.

“We fell [in love] pretty fast, but it wasn’t always easy. His family wanted him with a Balinese girl,” Klix said of her relationship with Kadek.

“[But] after trying for some time they were convinced and honestly I didn’t expect as warm of a welcome as I’ve had.”

Klix, who is also American, told Coconuts Bali that they initially planned to work on their marriage paperwork in March but were forced to wait it out as the coronavirus outbreak grinded everything to a halt. The couple had also planned to get married in June, but was again forced to cancel because of the pandemic.

Then in April, Klix found out she’s pregnant.

They got married on July 5 through a traditional Balinese wedding ceremony, but were unable to get the required paperwork for an official marriage certificate due to halted operations amid the pandemic. Klix is currently on a work ITAS that will expire next month, and even if they could start the process for a spouse-sponsored ITAS, the fact that immigration isn’t currently processing new applications puts them back to zero.

“I have been told I need to leave in 30 days [from July 13] despite being five months pregnant,” Klix said.

“They act like everything is our fault for not having it all together but how can we do anything when the government [offices] are all closed and with different rules?”

She said that she is trying to stay calm throughout the ordeal, adding that her husband, who is normally calm and carefree, is also stressing out.

“I just wish they had anticipated the backlash and questions, and been prepared for such situations,” Klix added, before lamenting on the possibility of delivering the baby in the US without Kadek.

File photo of the international departure hall at Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport. Photo: Coconuts Media

Meanwhile, 30-year-old Martina Iribarne entered Indonesia with a free 30-day visa. She had only planned a short stay in Bali before heading to Australia, where she was supposed to work for a year. When the borders closed due to the pandemic, Iribarne stayed here in Indonesia thinking she could at least stay until the global health crisis is over.

Australia is not currently accepting foreign visitors, and Iribarne said she doesn’t have the option to go back to her home country Argentina either, as she doesn’t live there anymore. Even if she could find another country to go to, her options are limited because most countries are still closed to foreign travelers.

“I feel like a prisoner … I wasn’t planning to stay [in Indonesia]. I feel discriminated against because it is the only visa they don’t let extend,” Iribarne said, referring to how eligible foreigners who entered Indonesia with a visa on arrival have the option of extending their visas.

“I feel sad for having to leave a country I love and where I feel at home. I have friends living here … I feel impotent because everybody’s telling me there’s nothing to do, that I have to leave.”

Though Indonesian immigration does not permit extensions for the free 30-day visa, Iribarne said officials should consider adapting the rules to the new situation with COVID-19, or at least allow foreigners to apply for a different type of visa in this unprecedented time.

Foreigners in Indonesia have taken to social media to share their plight and information, hoping to help each other out and find a tangible solution.

According to Jamaruli Manihuruk, who heads the regional office for the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, there are about 7,000 foreigners currently in Bali, more than half of whom entered Indonesia using a free visa.

Arvin Gumilang, a spokesman for the immigration office at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, told Coconuts Bali via WhatsApp yesterday that officials will continue to review the updated policy.

“We will continue to review the policy to evaluate its effectiveness, but the provisions are already enforced,” Arvin said.

“Though the new regulations are meant to apply as a general rule for all, if there are special cases we will also consider the human rights aspect, but it will certainly require a special policy from the leadership and must first be submitted.”

It’s not entirely impossible that Indonesian officials will respond to the backlash and concerns with compassion, but for the time being foreigners like Wehrli, Klix, and Iribarne are unfortunately still left in a limbo.

“Everybody said ‘they don’t care,’” Iribarne said, referring to the Indonesian government.

“But I hope they change their minds in the [coming] days.”

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