Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Nautilus]

drkohler said:

Nautilus said:

.. around 9 million people die of hunger related problems every year around the world? Or is that irrelevant?

Simply said yes, in the context. Hunger can be classified as a third world problem. Covid is a first world problem (because we will never know how badly covid behaves in the third world which has no accounting at all).

People should stop weighing one thing against another to upplay/downplay whatever the perceived coparison is supposed to say. Particularly when the two problems (covid/hunger) have no logical relation. Fact is there is a new disease in town with unknown long term consequences.

Covid dosen't, but economy does.And when countriesstart closing down because of that, then a connection was born.

Plus, people don't die only of hunger.Lack of treatment of other diseases also kill people, and that's also linked to economy, because the more money you have, the better treatments you can get.