Another way to answer...

[ThePachenas]

Billions, if not trillions have been spent fighting Covid. Over four million people have died. Every single death is tragic. Many preventable.

But as a sobering figure, according to United Nations, 10,000 children die of starvation every day. Every single day. That is over 6 million children who have died during the same time period from simply a lack of food. One million dollars would have saved millions of them, a billion would have saved them all.

I am 61 with underlying conditions. I care about everyone who has contracted Covid. But I am deeply disturbed and disgusted that the media never mentions that we could save more people than who have died from Covid with simple milk and rice. No need for a warp speed vaccine, just distributing milk and rice.

Food for thought....

Absolutely agree. Unfortunately the people with the money decide what's important enough to spend the money (resources on).

Also, unfortunately, the pandemic is occurring at the same time as the starvation (which is mostly due to anthropogenic climate change). Sadly, the eye-opening UN report from a couple days ago has already disappeared from the headlines.

We do have the ability to do things in parallel -- it doesn't have to be either/or. "The Vaccine" is the proven answer for the COVID issue, but Unfortunately some countries are now going to start giving out booster (3rd) doses of vaccine before much of the world (including Jamaica) even has their first dose.

[Rob]

Absolutely agree. Unfortunately the people with the money decide what's important enough to spend the money (resources on).

Also, unfortunately, the pandemic is occurring at the same time as the starvation (which is mostly due to anthropogenic climate change). Sadly, the eye-opening UN report from a couple days ago has already disappeared from the headlines.

We do have the ability to do things in parallel -- it doesn't have to be either/or. "The Vaccine" is the proven answer for the COVID issue, but Unfortunately some countries are now going to start giving out booster (3rd) doses of vaccine before much of the world (including Jamaica) even has their first dose.

I think you misunderstood what I meant, please read the 2018 press release about 2017 and prior years child starvation numbers (pre pandemic and pre climate change talk) from UNICEF.

Here is the link, make note of the 1990 numbers...

https://www.unicef.org/press-release...orld-un-report