There Are Bigger Problems Than The Coronavirus
By: Chad Raybourne
Tags: Pandemic, Covid 19, Hunger, Homeless, Coronavirus

People are debating the flu vs. pneumonia vs. coronavirus all the time. Which one is worse than the other.

Here’s a graph of the mortality rate of the coronavirus per 100k the last week, as it has apparently spiked out of control, reported by the CDC on their website.

Source: CDC.gov Website

As we are told, a horrible spike in deaths and cases. They have us in a panic locking back down and forcing mask mandates again.

The other disease that needs to be looked at is pneumonia. I was even amazed looking at the mortality rate, especially among children, which the coronavirus seems to avoid. Here’s a sample of that:

Source: ourworldindata.org

I was going to crop the photo to show just the graph, but I believe the information above is important. Extremely important. The main reason for pneumonia, especially in children, is due to a lack of nutrition. It’s the main cause of pneumonia in general.

So why isn’t this looked at as a problem? With all the billions of dollars being invested into the coronavirus pandemic and also for this vaccine, you would think world hunger, which is a huge problem, would be addressed.

According to the borgenproject.org, 36 million people die every year to hunger. There’s enough food, but one of the ways the food is distributed is the reason so many are hungry.

1 billion dollars is estimated to be able to feed over 200 million people if you estimated a meal at $2 a pop.

Why we aren’t focusing on a bigger problem than the coronavirus is a mystery. World hunger has been going on for a much longer time than the coronavirus. I thought maybe there might be a lack of food to feed that many people here on Earth but it turns out research shows that’s not the case. We waste a lot of it.

World hunger is a pandemic of bigger proportions. But it gets ignored. So why the focus on the coronavirus? Because it affects everyday people that are low, middle, and high class? That anyone is susceptible despite their income?

When things start to affect people that can’t control the outcome with money, it becomes a pressing issue.

Hunger only concerns who? Poor people. And we have a horrible trend on this Earth of ignoring and treating poor people plainly like crap compared to other classes. It’s not a secret.

So I leave you with these questions. Why is hunger not being addressed and the coronavirus so pressing, when the death rate is so staggeringly different? Why aren’t we addressing the issues that have the highest death tolls? Why are cigarettes that cause heart disease, a major killer, banned from being sold, when they kill more people than most other diseases?

It all revolves around money. Once the higher class are susceptible to the disease, it must be fought. They aren’t susceptible to hunger, so why fight it? The tax revenue from cigarettes and alcohol are so high so why stop the sales, even though it results in drunk driving deaths, incarceration, and health concerns, plus a toll on the healthcare system.

It doesn’t make sense. We ban restaurants from opening up due to a “deadly disease” as other things that are more deadly only get a warning label slapped on the side to warn us it might kill us. So will be eating out, but we have to stop that?

I am not trying to undermine the coronavirus, but I am simply stating there should be some other things that even before this should have been focused on prior to this and even during this happening.

It’s never too late to start.