Posted on 10/08/2020 5:12:09 PM PDT by rintintin
Do we really need a “Stanford professor” to tell us this? Is common sense that uncommon?
not much documented online, but I’ve heard harrowing accounts of increased hunger, etc on BBC World Service radio:
9 Oct: The Star, Kenya: Corona to push 40 million in Africa into extreme poverty - World Bank
by VICTOR AMADALA
Coronavirus is threatening to push 40 million people in Africa into extreme poverty, eroding development gains of the past decade, World Bank has said.
In its The global lender revealed this in the latest Africa’s Pulse report released Thursday, saying the continent’s economy will decline by 3.3 per cent this year, the region’s first recession in 25 years.
Titled ‘Charting the way to recovery’, the report indicates that while the health consequences of the Covid-19 have been less devastating than expected, the combination of domestic lockdowns and related spillovers from the global recession significantly impacted economic activity...
In Nigeria and South Africa, the region’s two largest economies, growth declines were particularly pronounced, with sharp drops by 6.1 percent and 17.1 percent year-on-year, respectively...
https://www.the-star.co.ke/business/kenya/2020-10-09-corona-to-push-40-million-in-africa-into-extreme-poverty-world-bank/
some Black Lives Don’t Matter:
4 May: Aljazeera: British-style lockdowns are not working in Africa
The rushed imposition of rigid lockdowns unleashed widespread social instability and economic uncertainty in Africa.
by Tafi Mhaka
The rushed and broadly contentious imposition of rigid lockdowns in Africa, however, unleashed widespread social instability, hunger and profound economic uncertainty, leaving vendors, small-scale farmers and undocumented migrants struggling to survive...
Post-COVID-19, many African states might struggle to meet the growing expectations of citizens whose livelihoods have been severely disrupted or irretrievably destroyed by the unintended consequences of enacting unworkable lockdowns...
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/5/4/british-style-lockdowns-are-not-working-in-africa/?gb=true
22 Apr: NYT: ‘Instead of Coronavirus, the Hunger Will Kill Us.’ A Global Food Crisis Looms.
The world has never faced a hunger emergency like this, experts say. It could double the number of people facing acute hunger to 265 million by the end of this year.
By Abdi Latif Dahir
In India, thousands of workers are lining up twice a day for bread and fried vegetables to keep hunger at bay.
And across Colombia, poor households are hanging red clothing and flags from their windows and balconies as a sign that they are hungry...
The coronavirus pandemic has brought hunger to millions of people around the world. National lockdowns and social distancing measures are drying up work and incomes, and are likely to disrupt agricultural production and supply routes — leaving millions to worry how they will get enough to eat...
Altogether, an estimated 265 million people could be pushed to the brink of starvation by year’s end.
“We’ve never seen anything like this before,” Mr. Husain (chief economist at the World Food Program) said. “It wasn’t a pretty picture to begin with, but this makes it truly unprecedented and uncharted territory.”...
Already, from Honduras to South Africa to India, protests and looting have broken out amid frustrations from lockdowns and worries about hunger. With classes shut down, over 368 million children have lost the nutritious meals and snacks they normally receive in school...
The curfews and restrictions on movement are already devastating the meager incomes of displaced people in Uganda and Ethiopia, the delivery of seeds and farming tools in South Sudan and the distribution of food aid in the Central African Republic...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/world/africa/coronavirus-hunger-crisis.html
Hunger could be more deadly than coronavirus in poorer countries
WaPo - 14 May 2020
Rats love and live for death and destruction!
According to the American College of Emergency Physicians, 29% of Americans are avoiding or delaying medical care due to fear of catching the coronavirus.
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Our business as lawyers has picked up due to lawyers terried hiding in their basements.
terrified*
This has been known for months now but never reported by the MSM sheep. The lockdown stays in place until election day.
Too bad he didn’t know Jesus...the one who protect us.
Very sad!
File this under Duh, but pleasantly surprised to see this broadcast on the local news in the Bay Area. This election may come down to panic vs calm (or “tired of this sh!t”)
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