Having lived in SE Asia for a few years and returning to the USA late last year, I can confidently tell you that the deaths caused by slamming on the economic brakes has killed more people than COVID-19 has even with the inflated numbers left in.
While many Americans enjoyed a huge increase in EBT and Unemployment benifits, along with the stimulus money, most citizens of poor countries got little aid.
The amount of aid and the percentage of people being excluded, ensured many people have literaly starved to death. In poor countries they have fewer animals of any sort in populated areas because they were already consumed years or even decades ago.
Over 7 years of visiting then 3 years of living in the Philippines I saw no one fishing from the shore of any lake, nor river, nor ocean. The pump boats never have a big haul.
Same thing with hunting. Anything besides feral dogs and cats are hard to find. Here in the USA there are still animals that survive in large numbers because being hit by a car is less devastating on the population than hungry bellies.
I was arguing with a lib who was crying about bolsonaro (brazil) staying open - third world countries can't actually lock down without people starving
I know a liberal in Brazil...she hates Bolsanaro, as expected. And yet the country is oddly okay despite the lack of lockdowns. They did not vanish and all die off as liberals claimed they would.
Notice libs always have money when they decide things that keep others from having any.
Haha—this is true in many levels. You want to know why housing is so expensive in blue states? Rich Libs can afford all the regulations that impose hardship and increase costs on everyone else.. It allows a separation of the masses. They are totally ok with you living in a tent along the freeway, strung out on drugs so long as you are not able to dig a well and build a house on your own property. They will make sure you can never do that. Rich winery people are the worst.
My firm has a lot of these people as customers - the hobby wineries can be particularly loathsome but a lot of them come from tech, private equity, VC, etc. They definitely have an inflated sense of self. Friend of mine at work one day just exploded 'God, I hate our customers!' I knew exactly what she meant.
They’re a scourge on this earth
Oh wow, I was JUST listening to a lecture about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC_hJywMUQ8 - 31:12 timestamp for the part that is relevant to your comment.