Lockdown = starvation

[Ava]

www.oxfam.org/en/world-brink-hunger-pandemic-coronavirus-threatens-push-millions-starvation

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famines_related_to_the_COVID-19_pandemic




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Yemen, worst situation globally



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Food riots, Nigeria

www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Nigeria.mp4?_=1

[Ava]

Extreme poverty rising, humanitarian system overwhelmed

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock said the human and economic cost of conflict is astronomical: an estimated 40 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the 10 most affected countries.

While 135 million people faced acute food insecurity before COVID-19, that number is expected to almost double this year, to 270 million people. The World Bank expects the number of people in extreme poverty to rise for the first time since the 1990s.

news.un.org/en/story/2020/09/1072712

Re: Haiti

Globally, as country lockdowns have increased and the movement of people restricted, economic activity has been hindered. The worsened economic conditions have led to an unprecedented scale back of trade, production and consumption globally. Consequently, the World Bank forecasts global GDP to contract 5.2 per cent. The falling gross domestic product (GDP) combined with restricted global trade in response to the COVID-19 pandemic exposes the vulnerabilities and dependence on the global food system and trade. Consequently, the pandemic compromises food security, especially in countries reliant on food imports, such as Haiti. It is estimated that a further 132 million people face hunger in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic fallout. [1] Many of these people will be living in already poor, fragile and food-insecure countries.

visionofhumanity.org/news/the-pandemics-toll-on-food-insecurity-and-undernourishment-in-haiti/

For the most part, it appears that lockdowns over-protect affluent countries from the virus, while crushing vulnerable countries economically and physically. Of course, even within America, homelessness is on the rise, and hunger along with it. 

 

[Ava]

- Number of deaths from Covid itself, currently a little over a million:
www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

- Starvation affecting 100x more people: 
"An additional 100 million people or more could be facing starvation this year, as the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic weakness has combined with the effects of climate change to put many more people at risk."
fortune.com/2020/10/26/covid-19-hunger-food-insecurity-coronavirus/

Exponentially more children dying of hunger than Covid:

All around the world, the coronavirus and its restrictions are pushing already hungry communities over the edge, cutting off meager farms from markets and isolating villages from food and medical aid. Virus-linked hunger is leading to the deaths of 10,000 more children a month over the first year of the pandemic, according to an urgent call to action from the United Nations shared with The Associated Press ahead of its publication in the Lancet medical journal.

Further, more than 550,000 additional children each month are being struck by what is called wasting, according to the U.N. — malnutrition that manifests in spindly limbs and distended bellies. Over a year, that’s up 6.7 million from last year’s total of 47 million. Wasting and stunting can permanently damage children physically and mentally, transforming individual tragedies into a generational catastrophe.

“The food security effects of the COVID crisis are going to reflect many years from now,” said Dr. Francesco Branca, the World Health Organization head of nutrition. “There is going to be a societal effect.”

www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/virus-linked-hunger-tied-to-10000-child-deaths-each-month/2020/07/27/84d349ca-d059-11ea-826b-cc394d824e35_story.html

Why can't world governments respond to the reality and change direction, to save more lives?

[Ava]

"Jobs Reset"...future economies in the hands of tech giants:

www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/technology-giants-global-reskill-initiatives/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism#Fascist_corporatism

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Oct 28, 2020 0:27:10 GMT Ava said:

Extreme poverty rising, humanitarian system overwhelmed

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock said the human and economic cost of conflict is astronomical: an estimated 40 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the 10 most affected countries.

While 135 million people faced acute food insecurity before COVID-19, that number is expected to almost double this year, to 270 million people. The World Bank expects the number of people in extreme poverty to rise for the first time since the 1990s.

news.un.org/en/story/2020/09/1072712

Re: Haiti

Globally, as country lockdowns have increased and the movement of people restricted, economic activity has been hindered. The worsened economic conditions have led to an unprecedented scale back of trade, production and consumption globally. Consequently, the World Bank forecasts global GDP to contract 5.2 per cent. The falling gross domestic product (GDP) combined with restricted global trade in response to the COVID-19 pandemic exposes the vulnerabilities and dependence on the global food system and trade. Consequently, the pandemic compromises food security, especially in countries reliant on food imports, such as Haiti. It is estimated that a further 132 million people face hunger in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic fallout. [1] Many of these people will be living in already poor, fragile and food-insecure countries.

visionofhumanity.org/news/the-pandemics-toll-on-food-insecurity-and-undernourishment-in-haiti/

For the most part, it appears that lockdowns over-protect affluent countries from the virus, while crushing vulnerable countries economically and physically. Of course, even within America, homelessness is on the rise, and hunger along with it. 

Thanks for this thread Ava. 
Yes, in both middle income and rich countries that don't have good social support structures (USA, India, Brazil), lockdowns have exacerbated inequalities. Joblessness has increased and so has the number of people living below the poverty line. And there is no end in sight.

[Ava]

Thank you @astrokeen .

I think the ends do not justify the means, when the means are totalitarian.

Totalitarianism itself becomes the new end.

And I find it hard to understand how people keep assuming this is all being done for our protection, when so many are clearly not protected at all, but devastated. As you said, no end in sight.

[FruityLlama]

This was a concern I had quite early on when we were being submerged into full on lockdown because there were, and still are, a lot of people adamant that full on lockdowns are the answer to protect people. However, with a little foresight, it's not hard to imagine that the real devastation will come from the economic effects of lockdown rather than Covid itself.

I get that for my country at least, lockdown was done to help stop the NHS from going under, but people have had their cancer treatments delayed and all sorts which really makes me wonder if its worth it.

I'm seeing patients again and most of them just seem really odd these days, as in, you can tell lockdown has exacerbated latent dementia or other memory issues. The sheer boredom and lack of social interaction has made their minds foggy.

I don't think the world leaders are in the wrong for suggesting another lockdown as such...they are under immense pressure but at the same time, I really think we need to start looking at this way more holistically. Are the consequences of lockdown itself worth it if people are starving and losing jobs? And when people are desperate, chaos ensues.

[Ava]

Stanford University's study on lockdown:

MANDATORY STAY-AT-HOME AND BUSINESS CLOSURE EFFECTS ON THE SPREAD OF COVID-19
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/eci.13484