COVID-19 threatens to starve Africa (1 Viewer)

But let’s destroy the economy, let’s destroy the food chain, let people die on a massive scale
Destroy the economy? Destroy the food chain?

Do you know what pandemics do to economies? They destroy them, regardless if you social distance or not. Sick people in the hospital, people with sick and dying family members and people watching everyone around them get sick doesn't make for good employees or consumers. See, what happens is they suddenly realize that $8/hr isn't worth dying for and a family vacation isn't in their best interest any longer. Those designer sunglasses suddenly just aren't that important. As for destroying the food chain, are there really food shortages? I thought we never shut them down? Oh that's right, we didn't. They had to shut down because employees started refusing to go to work since disease was running rampant through the meat packing plants (see how that works)?

The only way we can prevent all these problems is to go back in time, take the virus seriously in January and early February. Shut down all travel for 30 days and roll out a testing system that could handle everyone while supplying healthcare workers with PPE so we didn't spread Covid through the healthcare system and all over the country. We probably could have contained it when there were a few hundreds cases instead of a few hundred thousand. Instead, our leaders ignored the daily intelligence update warning of an imminent economic and healthcare collapse, disregarded all the research and planning Scientists and doctors worked on for decades to come up with our pandemic playbook. Our leaders flat out lied to our face at every single turn along the way and continue to do so. Our politicians were selling stock and notifying their high paying donors, family and friends to do the same while telling us the risk to Americans was low and this is some flu. Our leaders didn't even start trying to order the first PPE until March 21 on a Federal level. They still don't have a national mass testing plan, they still haven't announced a unified plan to reopen, they still haven't put plans and precautions in place for a second wave in the fall that is likely to be much worse. The FEDS are literally telling each state they are on their own when comes to PPE , and testing. Our highest levels of governments have literally taken PPE and medical equipment away from some states and given it to others, not based on need but political affiliation. Months of fake cures, false prophecy and quite frankly, comments so far beyond the stupidity level it's embarrasing. Months of division and separation at a time we all need to rally together. Don't you worry though, the White House is testing everyone there at least a couple times a week and requiring masks and gloves while having crews disinfect daily. You know, that stupid crap all of us people don't need because we would be living in fear if we did that kind of stuff.

So yeah, we're stuck between choosing between death, economic collapse and starvation because of the media. The same media companies whose stocks have been decimated by the virus. The media and China are the scapegoats for the sheople so we don't focus on the massive failure of epic proportion by the White House.

This is coming from someone that is closer to Libertarian than anything else. Every now and then, there come situations like pandemics and war where the people have to rally around a Federal Government. It's the people's job to elect capable leaders and it's the people job to protect those freedoms and reign in liberties after periods in which we have to sacrifice them. We've all failed.
 
And you think it’s because of worldwide food shortage?
 

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