Covid Lockdown, Third-World Edition

American Thinker. com ^ | September 28, 2021 | Twilight Patriot

[Kaslin]

Affluent westerners are so taken with the way their lockdowns are “saving lives,” that they ignore completely the costs those lockdowns impose on those less wealthy than they are. In America, these policies have been an economic hardship for innumerable. In the Third World, the destruction has been infinitely worse, with Madagascar as a microcosm of that disaster.

For the upper-class Americans who have made a life out of manufacturing public opinion, the question of whether to respond to the Covid pandemic by shutting down most schools, churches, and small businesses for the better part of two years can be answered with an easy, “Yes, of course.”

The same goes for the comfortable classes of Canada, Australia, Europe, and the other wealthier countries of the world. As these people see it, whether you’re for or against these shutdowns has always been a simple reflection of whether you want more people or fewer people to die of Covid. For the most part, they don’t look at the situation through a cost-benefit analysis lens.

They can afford their views because they’re part of a social class that pays few of the costs. But for people who are part of the lower classes, or who own or work at one of those millions of small businesses that has gone under, the situation looks very different.

Pro tip: When there are two sides to an argument, and one side wants to compare costs and benefits, while the other side sees it as a simple moral question—with the only question being “do you want people to suffer, or not?”—the first side is usually in the right. This goes for single-payer health care, “non-violent policing,” Covid lockdowns,

[sauropod]

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[livius]

This is very sad…and probably coming soon to a “First World” country near you. The Third World doesn’t even have anybody to look to for help anymore.

Governments have destroyed the global economy with their “Covid measures.” What did they think was going to happen when they shut down the engines of productivity throughout their countries?