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by throwlaplace 2206 days ago
>no one is in even remote danger of starving

like do you actually believe this? just because none of your friends are starving doesn't mean there aren't people that are

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/22/covid-19-...

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I believe he is limiting his comments to the USA.
do you know what the number of people below the poverty line is in the US?

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759512938/u-s-census-bureau-r...

38 million.

12% of households don't reliably eat

https://www.feedingamerica.org/about-us/press-room/new-data

people are getting evicted en masse soon

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/us/coronavirus-evictions-...

do you really think "no one" is going starve to death in the US in the coming months? or even that many people aren't?

we know all of these things are true. the system is set up to disenfranchise these people. none of it is because of lack of food capacity, and covid did not impact the food supply chain enough to stop the chain.