No matter how many people die as a result of these lockdowns, it was worth it to keep people from getting the flu for a little while.
Next year is shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe and rich countries must not trample poor countries in a “stampede for vaccines” to combat the coronavirus pandemic, top U.N. officials told the 193-member U.N. General Assembly on Friday.
World Food Programme (WFP) chief David Beasley and World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke during a special meeting on COVID-19, which emerged in China late last year and has so far infected 65 million globally.
The pandemic, measures taken by countries to try to stop its spread and the economic impact have fueled a 40% increase in the number of people needing humanitarian help, the United Nations said earlier this week. It has appealed for $35 billion in aid funding.
“2021 is literally going to be catastrophic based on what we’re seeing at this stage of the game,” said Beasley, adding that for a dozen countries, famine is “knocking on the door.”
He said 2021 was likely to be “the worst humanitarian crisis year since the beginning of the United Nations” 75 years ago and “we’re not going to be able to fund everything … so we have to prioritize, as I say, the icebergs in front of the Titanic.”
It’s far better to starve to death than to get the flu.
At least starvation is quick.
When people are starving, they will be saying: “at least I didn’t get the flu.”
When men are divorced, they’re addicted to drugs, they’re homeless on the street on the verge of death, they will be saying: “at least I didn’t get the flu.”
In 2021, and for decades beyond that, when the entire world suffers unimaginably as a result of these lockdowns, everyone on the entire planet will be saying: “at least I didn’t get the flu.”
Of course, that is just rhetorical, because obviously everyone is going to get the flu at some point no matter what, and close to half of people already have. But the important thing is that we tried to stop people from getting it, by collapsing the economy and stripping everyone of all their rights. Because you have to try.
The media and governments told us that it was unacceptable to put the economy before trying to prevent the spread of the flu, and what they meant was: if we can prevent even one person from getting the flu, it is worth millions of lives lost as a result of economic collapse.
Even if a billion people have to die, it is better than one person getting the flu – even if that person is going to get the flu anyway.
We are so blessed that the people who run our governments and media are so moral that they were willing to sacrifice our lives to prevent us from getting the flu.