Millions Face Starvation Because of Shutdown

We have entered into the great controversy of the year — perhaps the decade. Do we stay locked down and weather the economic storm, or do we reopen the economy safely and get back to work?

Many on the left have turned this into a reductive argument. They claim that opening the American economy will kill innocent people in order to make rich, capitalist elitists a few bucks. That argument is stupid. The shutdown itself is deadly serious, and anyone who thinks otherwise doesn’t understand the true consequences of what we’re doing. This UN report will help clarify that misunderstanding.

The UN Projection

The UN has estimated that 115 million additional people are now facing food shortages around the world. Of those, 30 million are currently at risk of immediate death from starvation. The bulk of these starving people can be found in 10 countries: Yemen, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Nigeria, Haiti, Syria, Venezuela and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The UN report assesses that the developing famine is a direct result of coronavirus and government responses. Most importantly, 115 million people are already starving from this. Hundreds of millions more could be added to the tally as shutdowns persist.

But What About the U.S.?

First, it’s ok to be somewhat skeptical of UN numbers. They have an agenda, and their agenda rarely has anything to do with honesty. It’s usually more about power.

That said, the premise of the report is undeniable. With supply chains in shambles and all of the top economies in the world spiraling, food assistance around the world is a fraction of its norm.

 

The COVID situation has led a large number of countries to dramatically reduce food exports. Even when charity isn’t involved, a lot of countries are having a hard time securing food. Opening the U.S. would alleviate global economic problems. When we shut down, the whole world suffers.

The bigger problem is that it’s not just foreigners who are at risk of starvation. The United States is in no way impervious to this famine. Multiple meatpacking plants have closed in our country. Smithfield CEO issued a warning just days ago about supply chain interuptions and food shortages over the closures. Many farmers had to ditch crop yields they couldn’t sell. We’re already seeing food strains that haven’t existed in this country since before WWII.

If we stay locked down, the food strains will get worse and millions of Americans will face starvation for the first time ever. This is to say nothing of medical supply shortages and countless other deadly serious problems that are the result of the lockdown.

That brings us to the ultimate point. This issue isn’t the result of the virus. It’s the result of governmental responses to the virus. The virus will kill tens of thousands in the U.S. and hundreds of thousands around the world. Our response to the virus will kill hundreds of millions (potentially including millions of Americans). How is that rational on any level?

We are once again proving that politicians are far deadlier than natural disasters — even pandemics. If we don’t open America, the death toll will be unlike anything ever seen in the modern world. WWII will look like a happy afternoon picnic by comparison. The virus can’t hold a candle to that, and millions of Americans are actively rooting for this outcome. The far-left isn’t misguided. They want death and destruction. We won’t let them have it.


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