FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Coronavirus: testing and travel
View Single Post
Old May 11, 2020, 6:00 pm
  #7  
stimpy
FlyerTalk Evangelist
 
Join Date: Feb 1999
Location: Seat 1A, Juice pretty much everywhere, Mucci des Coins Exotiques
Posts: 34,339
Originally Posted by nomiiiii
I mean ... would you rather millions starve and result in intergenerational suffering and poverty because they are stuck in a poor country with no good infrastructure, no welfare programs to go through these times, and now there aren't any wealthy people coming in to help with the transfer of wealth through leisure activities? Why is compassion only reserved for the few thousand who get coronavirus, why not the millions in poorer countries who are impacted from the border restrictions and reduced economic activity?
That's the way it has always been. Nobody cares about people starving or dying in Africa. I had hoped that this would shine a light on developing nations, and it has in some areas such as French President Macron's debt forgiveness fight. But not so much in the USA.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-i...-idUSKCN21W2HE
stimpy is offline