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Ever since the election, it has been incessant.

For the past four years, there has been a tendency in some quarters to downplay Trump’s incendiary rhetoric.

There was a report of a woman being shot in the chest inside the Capitol building, and of multiple police officers being seriously injured in the melee.

Many had lost jobs, or even loved ones, and many more were isolated at home and mired in the unpredictability and uncontrollability of this novel coronavirus, searching for answers in 24-hour news, fake news, social media and increasingly polarised political discourse.

Scaffolding would be critical to help our young adult students gain a sufficient foothold before looking directly at the ultimate questions.

rather to create a safe and supportive environment for the client to explore their existential conundrums and, in so doing, work through their symptoms to develop their own answers to life’s ultimate questions.

Perhaps counterintuitively, the existential therapist’s goal is not necessarily to decrease anxiety or depression,

Yet another avoids existential isolation by blindly conforming to their ingroup and denigrating or attacking the other.

But the saga illustrates governments’ desire to inoculate their own citizens quickly, and their worries that there won’t be enough vaccine to go round.

But there was a catch: according to Adar Poonawalla, the boss of the Serum Institute of India, the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world, approval of the Astrazeneca-Oxford vaccine was contingent on the company not exporting any doses abroad for several months in order to prioritise vulnerable Indians, 300m of whom the country hopes to vaccinate by July.

That means enforcing interoperability, so that, for example, payments services on one e-commerce platform can be used seamlessly on a rival one.

Yet however safe and siloed Western e-retailing may appear to be, it is now unlikely that it will become the world’s dominant mode of shopping.

Many leading e-commerce firms in South-East Asia (Grab and Sea), India (Jio), and Latin America (Mercado Libre) are influenced by the Chinese strategy of offering a “super-app” with a cornucopia of services from noodle delivery to financial services.

Point and click are passé: online-shopping platforms in China now blend digital payments, group deals, social media, gaming, instant messaging, short-form videos and live-streaming celebrities.

And China is also at the frontier of regulation, with the news on December 24th that trustbusters were investigating Alibaba, co-founded by Jack Ma, China’s most celebrated tycoon, and until a few weeks ago its most valuable listed firm.

Workers at a handful of firms, including Amazon and Walmart, have made superhuman efforts to fulfil online orders, and their investors have made supernormal profits as Wall Street has bid up their shares on euphoria that Western retailing is at the cutting edge.