Amid the worst stretch of the global political panic over the coronavirus, the U.N.’s World Food Program estimated that 285 million of the world’s poorest were on a rapid path to starvation. To even partially vivify the previous truth, white flags were increasingly visible in El Salvador’s mass of hovels; the white flags a message of desperation related to food inside each hovel.
The obvious and not unreasonable comment about what you’ve just read is that lockdowns that were a policy manifestation of global political panic put a lot of people out of work who desperately needed to be working. It’s all true, but it only tells part of the story.
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