500 million more people, mostly in the Global South, has been forced into poverty by the COVID pandemic. Or perhaps because of the Global North *response* to the COVID pandemic?
Leftist gadflies Jimmy Dore and Max Blumenthal argues that the lockdowns of the international economy, imposed by the globalist establishment in the rich Western nations, are collapsing the economies of the "Third World". Immunization campaigns against other diseases have been scrapped, many nations have become heavily indebted to the IMF (again), and poverty is spreading even in nations that are considered "Middle Income", where people who recently escaped poverty are falling back again. The education system in places like Uganda has been devastated by two years of lockdown, with the students being forced to work for a living (they can´t "chill in the metaverse", as Blumenthal puts it).
All this was *predicted* by the UN already in April last year, yet nothing has been done to solve the situation. By our "woke" leftoid elites, I might add.
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