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Covid-related hunger could kill more people than the virus – UN Global Compact
- CryptoPunk 6y agoThis is lockdown-related hunger. Hundreds of millions of healthy young people at low risk from Covid had their basic liberties infringed to slow the spread of the virus, and the result is millions of young people dying due to poverty.
- undersuit 6y agoThis is not about people under lockdowns dying but the people who will die because of Covid's long term disruption in supply chains on those already in poverty.
- ppf 6y agoNo, it's about people dying as as result of our response to Covid (that is, lockdowns), and not of the disease itself.
- mrfusion 6y agoYou’re not wrong. Not sure why you got downvoted.
- CryptoPunk 6y agoPeople are indoctrinated to react aggressively to any perceived right-wing advocacy.
- mrfusion 6y agoIt’s sad all this got partisan.
- CryptoPunk 6y agoYou see this kind of partisanship a lot on Reddit. It's always disappointing seeing how much of it now gets to HN.
- LeoNatan25 6y agoNo, just egoistic world views. I’ve seen the same claims from idiots on the left as much as the right, especially when their fortune is in danger.
- CryptoPunk 6y agoEven when I point out how people are dying due to lockdowns, you suspect I'm espousing a right-wing worldview that is motivated by my own interests, since a perception has been created that opposing the establishment's support for lockdowns is a right wing position, and as a corollary, that its promotion is self-serving. And this reflexive hostility to the perceived right is driven just as much by ego as any other.
- LeoNatan25 6y agoI’ve seen statistics that show that suicide rate has not gone up during this year of pandemic lockdowns. I’m not saying things aren’t bad.
- stopping 6y agoFYI: This article was likely published in summer 2020.
- ncmncm 6y agoSo we should know now how it has turned out. In a population of 7B people, at steady state, on the order of 100M die every day. (With the population growing fast, the number is probably smaller.) At +300K/day, that is an extra 100M deaths in a year, or >2x. I think we would have heard about that, even in the US where people are routinely in the dark about foreign events.
- ncmncm 6y ago"die every year" not day.