{"id":53543,"date":"2020-04-23T14:20:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T19:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=53543"},"modified":"2020-04-23T14:20:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T19:20:54","slug":"53543","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=53543","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comment O&#8217; The Day&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe irony is that famine weakens the general health. The young become weak as the old. The hale develop debilitating conditions. The Four Horsemen never ride separately but together. People knew this once.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/6aBgV#selection-659.0-689.221\">\u00a0\u2018Instead of Coronavirus, the Hunger Will Kill Us.\u2019 A Global Food Crisis Looms.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NAIROBI, Kenya \u2014 In the largest slum in Kenya\u2019s capital, people desperate to eat set off a stampede during a recent giveaway of flour and cooking oil, leaving scores injured and two people dead.<br \/>\nIn India, thousands of workers are lining up twice a day for bread and fried vegetables to keep hunger at bay.<\/p>\n<p>And across Colombia, poor households are hanging red clothing and flags from their windows and balconies as a sign that they are hungry.<br \/>\n\u201cWe don\u2019t have any money, and now we need to survive,\u201d said Pauline Karushi, who lost her job at a jewelry business in Nairobi, and lives in two rooms with her child and four other relatives. \u201cThat means not eating much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus pandemic has brought hunger to millions of people around the world. National lockdowns and social distancing measures are drying up work and incomes, and are likely to disrupt agricultural production and supply routes \u2014 leaving millions to worry how they will get enough to eat.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>The coronavirus has sometimes been called an equalizer because it has sickened both rich and poor, but when it comes to food, the commonality ends. It is poor people, including large segments of poorer nations, who are now going hungry and facing the prospect of starving.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\u201cThe coronavirus has been anything but a great equalizer,\u201d said Asha Jaffar, a volunteer who brought food to families in the Nairobi slum of Kibera after the fatal stampede. \u201cIt\u2019s been the great revealer, pulling the curtain back on the class divide and exposing how deeply unequal this country is.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Already, 135 million people\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/o\/6aBgV\/https:\/\/www.fsinplatform.org\/sites\/default\/files\/resources\/files\/GRFC_2020_ONLINE_200420.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had been facing acute food shortages<\/a>, but now with the pandemic, 130 million more could go hungry in 2020, said Arif Husain, chief economist at the World Food Program, a United Nations agency. Altogether, an estimated 265 million people could be pushed to the brink of starvation by year\u2019s end.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment O&#8217; The Day&#8212; \u201cThe irony is that famine weakens the general health. The young become weak as the old. The hale develop debilitating conditions. The Four Horsemen never ride separately but together. 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