CBS: "I'm starving now": World faces unprecedented hunger crisis amid coronavirus pandemic
It's Friday morning in Alexandra township – a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of South Africa's largest city, Johannesburg – and dozens of people are gathered in a field outside a food distribution point, hoping today might be the day they get something to eat.
"If you're hungry, it's easy to get sick from stress and everything," says Mduduzi Khumalo, who's been lining up every day for two weeks. To get food your name has to be on the list and, so far, despite registering multiple times, his hasn't been.
Khumalo worked as a delivery man before South Africa's coronavirus lockdown decimated his income. His children used to get two meals a day at school, but schools are closed now. Every day, the kids wait for him at the family's tiny home, and every day brings the same bad news.
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WNU Editor: It is a given that there is going to be a hunger crisis. Nearly half of the global workforce is now out of work .... UN Labor Agency: Half Of The World's Workers May See Their Livelihood Destroyed Because Of The Pandemic (April 29, 2020).
Update: I concur with this analysis that the secondary impacts of Covid-19 are going to be enormous .... “Exceptionally Dire”: Secondary Impacts of Covid-19 Could Increase Global Poverty and Hunger (The Intercept). I can easily foresee deaths from secondary impacts .... poverty, hunger, diseases, social unrest, and violence exacerbated by the pandemic .... dwarfing the number of those who die of the coronavirus itself. And heaven help everyone if the expected second coronavirus pandemic wave does happen later this year.
Thank you liberals!
ReplyDeleteYou save 1 person for every 100 you will murder. Which for a liberal is about as good as they get. Usually they kill way more.
South Africa didn't need to shut down its economy. No one needed to. I'm puzzled as to why a poor country like South Africa would do this. They simply can't afford it. Frankly because the cost is so great I'm surprised so many countries took this route.
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