Saturday, April 18, 2020

U.N. warns economic downturn could kill hundreds of thousands of children in 2020

Via Jessica Hult "Rarely do I find myself in agreement with anything the un puts out there... but here I am agreeing. Hm. There's a catch somewhere, I'm sure."

 

Hundreds of thousands of children could die this year due to the global economic downturn sparked by the coronavirus pandemic and tens of millions more could fall into extreme poverty as a result of the crisis, the United Nations warned on Thursday.

The world body also said in a risk report that nearly 369 million children across 143 countries who normally rely on school meals for a reliable source of daily nutrition have now been forced to look elsewhere.

More @ Reuters

8 comments:

  1. And yet dairy farmers are forced to pour milk down the drain.

    https://www.thebullvine.com/news/southwest-missouri-dairy-farmers-forced-to-pour-out-milk-during-pandemic/

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    1. Thanks and I saw a different one. What an unmitigated shame.

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  2. I wonder how many government and media employees will see any kind of accountability or ramifications for their role in this and hundreds of other 2nd and 3rd order effects from their now obvious lies, omissions, manipulation. Or at the very least their incompetence.

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  3. At lot of officialdom, especially among leftist politicians, seem to enjoy exerting authoritarian controls for "the public safety". The economic results are a reminder of what their preferred socialist society would be like--all the time. --Ron W

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    1. The economic results are a reminder of what their preferred socialist society would be like--all the time

      As Trump said, the Democrats would run every state like Virginia, in response to the governor's new gun 'laws'.

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  4. UN study? Another destroy Trump tactic. I've come to realize there is absolutely no limit on what the Liberal Democrats and their Globalist allies will do to achieve their goal.

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    1. there is absolutely no limit on what the Liberal Democrats and their Globalist allies will do to achieve their goa

      Including death.

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