By Paul Joseph Watson
The impact of the global coronavirus lockdown is set to plunge 100 million people into extreme poverty, warns a new report by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
The report appears to pin the blame on COVID-19 itself for the economic impact, yet the actual culprit is discovered to be the “restrictions” put in place by governments in response to the pandemic.
From the report;
“With the virus and its restrictions, up to 100 million more people globally could fall into the bitter existence of living on just $1.90 a day, according to the World Bank. That’s “well below any reasonable conception of a life with dignity,” the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty wrote this year. And it comes on top of the 736 million people already there, half of them in just five countries: Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Congo and Bangladesh.”
The report notes that the impact of the lockdown on the poor in countries like India was “so abrupt and punishing” that their Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, begged for forgiveness.
The report will stir up further debate as to whether the global lockdown will prove more deadly than COVID-19 itself, with extreme poverty being directly linked to death and shortened life spans. According to research published by Imperial College London and Johns Hopkins University, around 1.4 million people are expected to die from untreated TB infections due to the coronavirus lockdown.
Experts have also warned that hundreds of thousands or even millions of people could die in the longer term as a result of the lockdown preventing them from receiving treatment for cancer and other serious illnesses.
Given that many of those sunk into extreme poverty as a result of the lockdown live in sub-Saharan Africa, this could also exacerbate mass immigration from that region into Europe.
“It’s a timely reminder that the the main cost of the lockdowns favoured by liberal policy-makers across the world will not be people in the West, but those hovering just above the poverty line in the developing world,” writes Toby Young.
“Thanks to the misguided enthusiasm of Western governments for imprisoning entire populations in their homes, thereby triggering a global recession, tens of millions of people will die of starvation in low-income countries.”
Hmmm
While your premise is well grounded, your conlusion that 100 Million is “set” to plunge understates the magnitude of the threat. At least 1/2 a Trillion people world-wide are set to been forced into extreme poverity as a result of “COVID-19. In relative terms compared to the perpetrually impoverished this number represents the bulk of the world’s so called “Middle Class”. Baring in mind that at least 4 Billion people live in object poverty from cradle to grave. Which offers a startingly contrast to the 100,000 odd richest people in the world who now enjoy half the wealth of the entire planet.
Understating the effects of the establishments reactions to COVID-19 is almost as dangerous as the Media’s, the establishment and the Billionaires 24/7 non-stop attempts to hype its “threat” to humanity into the stratoshere.
That the “middle class” has been targeted and has born the brunt of the economic suffering should be painfully obvious. The “middle class” represented the last remaining large pocket of wealth left on the planet for the 100,000 to rob. And it (was) the middle class that was the last major obstacle blocking the way toward a world wide government (controlled by, if not actually run by the 100,000 of course. The mundane task of running any government is always left to the underlings)
And the reason that “lockdowns” are so vital to this 1 world government effort is also painfully obvious. If the masses are either physicaly, financially or just pschologically locked down, they can’t resist the loss of their Rights and Freedoms and are powerless to stop the assimilation that is clearly happening as I write this.