118M is the increase in people facing chronic hunger. 5M are deaths. Those aren't the same thing. Nobody would say that chronic hunger isn't horrible - it is

118M is the increase in people facing chronic hunger. 5M are deaths. Those aren't the same thing. Nobody would say that chronic hunger isn't horrible - it is - but it is highly disingenuous to compare it directly with deaths. Chronic hunger is a systemic issue. There are simply too many confounding factors to arbitrarily place the blame for a given % of hunger increase on COVID mitigation measures. We know it had some significant effect, but can't say much beyond that, and certainly can't draw any conclusions about whether the measures were appropriate or optimal based on that. To do so would be lying with numbers to advance an agenda. Furthermore, letting the virus run wild and kill millions more could have resulted in tremendous increase in hunger itself - economies and supply chains don't handle mass death well, ever. Now you might say that is speculation, but it's no moreso than the % of 118M argument that you forwarded. It's far to early to be Monday morning quarterbacking the pandemic - we are still very much in all dimensions of it.