“Unicef warns lockdown could kill more than Covid-19 as model predicts 1.2 million child deaths” The Telegraph, Global Health Security Reporter 13 May 2020 • 6:00am
Since this story in May 2020 – saying the Western Lockdowns would cause these children to die because of diminished economic activity – I have been telling it – and no one cares. (think of the adults in Africa who grow the fresh flowers air-freighted in daily for Europe – a great many of them, put out of work – think of thousands of similar jobs, and no food the the children,)
I keep telling of the experts who all agree a poor student does not catch up for missed class – well millions in the West are now doomed to unemployability and under employability to save granny. Hundreds of millions of children outside the West the same.
That any society destroys the young to save the old and feeble a few more months is the most evil thing I know of.
For Shame – you lockdown sheep, you have done vast harm to the people of the world. You NHS pot bangers, that ghoulish noise you made was celebrating the neglect of all the ones who needed non-covid health care and were denied.
Gates and his ilk have more blood on their hands …..
Last edited 2 years ago by Galeti Tavas
Lesley van Reenen
2 years ago
Not just the very wealthy, but comfortably off people in the West have supported lockdowns in droves. It has been traumatic to witness, especially as they assume the moral high ground.
You cannot persuade that type of person that lockdowns even have harmful outcomes. I’ve been told by various lockdown-supporters that it doesn’t matter about the kids missing school because ‘they’ll catch up’, and covid is ‘so dangerous’ that it’s more important to lock down than to worry about other health issues, the economy, poverty etc. Any comment on the harmful effect of lockdowns in developing countries is met with something on the lines of ‘charity begins at home’. I’ve also noticed that such lockdown supporters usually think it’s ok for themselves to break the rules, because they’re responsible enough to be sensible, while everyone else is too stupid to be trusted with their own health. So frustrating.
Yes, I know lockdown supporters like that! They confide in me about their “sensible” rule breaking because I am openly non-compliant but don’t have the guts to be honest about it or think about why they are breaking these nonsense rules. At least it is easier to phase them out of my life in these perverse times.
ralph bell
2 years ago
We have seen people’s selfishness demonstrated the world over from Politicians in UK & Europe to ‘protect themselves’. Many citizens have also done the same whether through fear or other.
So many illnesses that kill many children have been ignored during Covid-19, its shocking and shameful.
Alka Hughes-Hallett
2 years ago
Typical rich philanthropists.
Charity and philanthropy is quite a difficult business. How do you empower communities and not make them dependent?
For example medicine availability has benefitted the humans so effectively that now we are 7b going to 9b. So could it be fair to say that making medicine easily available everywhere has caused the world to be so unsustainably populated ? The downsides are multiple but keep to this point we have become over dependent on medicine and the more we rely on it, the more addictive it becomes. No one could predict that we would be in this situation today because the focus was maybe too narrow.
Even if BMGF has made a difference to some of the communities , it has certainly been undone in lockdown. So why was BG such an advocate of lockdown? Because his focus was narrow . I remember seeing a video in which he is trying to explain the virus and how once a vaccine was available, the next task would be to get everyone on the planet vaccinated!!!! The saddest part is the hubris of these philanthropist that they are in control of the world is so incredibly destructive . I am on the side of a billionaire who is not trying to pretend he has the answers for the poor and deprived. . f you earned it , spend it how you like . Go to space, burn it for all I care. That is less destructive than those who meddle without knowledge or awareness and have loud opinions and half baked strategies.
The ones you are trying to “save”end up paying the price!
“So why was BG such an advocate of lockdown? Because his focus was narrow .”
Because he is totally evil is my guess.
Since the lockdowns began I have been ranting about the damage done is 100000X greater than any good. I would not be surprised to find Lockdowns end up causing more harm than WWII, if the Global Great Depression may be caused by them – and it may.
But even without that extreme – the harm will be at least 100X greater than any good – and the Tech/Social Media and MSM elites led this, created it, are the ones responsible for it.
Millions and millions of children have had their futures destroyed, and hundreds of millions of youth had their futures diminished – to save the old and feeble a few more months of life! INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!
Bill Gates and his ex-wife are neither epidemiologists, nor are they educated in anthropology, political science…. the list of what they don’t know is near-endless. But the Gates’ computer science mantra of “make it work”, combined with their enormous fund-raising capabilities have made them completely secure in their moral superiority and completely immune to the realities of peoples’ lives. Their self-serving philanthropic miscues are just imperialism with a smiley-face. Utterly awful.
Dennis Boylon
2 years ago
I don’t see any comment from Bill Gates stating that he cares about this. I didn’t follow any links. It just stated articles funded by BMGF. Psychopaths don’t feel empathy. Bill Gates doesn’t care. He is getting everything he wants and more.
Bruno Lucy
2 years ago
18 months to come to that conclusion ? Impressive quick thinking to discover the obvious
Fran Martinez
2 years ago
I feel that this article should at least mention the great job of Collateral Global to highlight the consequences of lockdowns. Forget UNICEF, collateral global have been ringing the alarm since day one. They are also massively underfunded (of course) and we should all help them. https://collateralglobal.org/
“Unicef warns lockdown could kill more than Covid-19 as model predicts 1.2 million child deaths”
The Telegraph, Global Health Security Reporter 13 May 2020 • 6:00am
Since this story in May 2020 – saying the Western Lockdowns would cause these children to die because of diminished economic activity – I have been telling it – and no one cares. (think of the adults in Africa who grow the fresh flowers air-freighted in daily for Europe – a great many of them, put out of work – think of thousands of similar jobs, and no food the the children,)
I keep telling of the experts who all agree a poor student does not catch up for missed class – well millions in the West are now doomed to unemployability and under employability to save granny. Hundreds of millions of children outside the West the same.
That any society destroys the young to save the old and feeble a few more months is the most evil thing I know of.
For Shame – you lockdown sheep, you have done vast harm to the people of the world. You NHS pot bangers, that ghoulish noise you made was celebrating the neglect of all the ones who needed non-covid health care and were denied.
Gates and his ilk have more blood on their hands …..
Not just the very wealthy, but comfortably off people in the West have supported lockdowns in droves. It has been traumatic to witness, especially as they assume the moral high ground.
You cannot persuade that type of person that lockdowns even have harmful outcomes. I’ve been told by various lockdown-supporters that it doesn’t matter about the kids missing school because ‘they’ll catch up’, and covid is ‘so dangerous’ that it’s more important to lock down than to worry about other health issues, the economy, poverty etc. Any comment on the harmful effect of lockdowns in developing countries is met with something on the lines of ‘charity begins at home’. I’ve also noticed that such lockdown supporters usually think it’s ok for themselves to break the rules, because they’re responsible enough to be sensible, while everyone else is too stupid to be trusted with their own health. So frustrating.
Yes, I know lockdown supporters like that! They confide in me about their “sensible” rule breaking because I am openly non-compliant but don’t have the guts to be honest about it or think about why they are breaking these nonsense rules. At least it is easier to phase them out of my life in these perverse times.
We have seen people’s selfishness demonstrated the world over from Politicians in UK & Europe to ‘protect themselves’. Many citizens have also done the same whether through fear or other.
So many illnesses that kill many children have been ignored during Covid-19, its shocking and shameful.
Typical rich philanthropists.
Charity and philanthropy is quite a difficult business. How do you empower communities and not make them dependent?
For example medicine availability has benefitted the humans so effectively that now we are 7b going to 9b. So could it be fair to say that making medicine easily available everywhere has caused the world to be so unsustainably populated ? The downsides are multiple but keep to this point we have become over dependent on medicine and the more we rely on it, the more addictive it becomes. No one could predict that we would be in this situation today because the focus was maybe too narrow.
Even if BMGF has made a difference to some of the communities , it has certainly been undone in lockdown. So why was BG such an advocate of lockdown? Because his focus was narrow . I remember seeing a video in which he is trying to explain the virus and how once a vaccine was available, the next task would be to get everyone on the planet vaccinated!!!! The saddest part is the hubris of these philanthropist that they are in control of the world is so incredibly destructive . I am on the side of a billionaire who is not trying to pretend he has the answers for the poor and deprived. . f you earned it , spend it how you like . Go to space, burn it for all I care. That is less destructive than those who meddle without knowledge or awareness and have loud opinions and half baked strategies.
The ones you are trying to “save”end up paying the price!
“So why was BG such an advocate of lockdown? Because his focus was narrow .”
Because he is totally evil is my guess.
Since the lockdowns began I have been ranting about the damage done is 100000X greater than any good. I would not be surprised to find Lockdowns end up causing more harm than WWII, if the Global Great Depression may be caused by them – and it may.
But even without that extreme – the harm will be at least 100X greater than any good – and the Tech/Social Media and MSM elites led this, created it, are the ones responsible for it.
Millions and millions of children have had their futures destroyed, and hundreds of millions of youth had their futures diminished – to save the old and feeble a few more months of life! INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/bill-gates-investments-covid/
It is a tax shelter and a political fund. It has nothing to do with helping anybody. Well his own power and privilege I suppose.
Bill Gates and his ex-wife are neither epidemiologists, nor are they educated in anthropology, political science…. the list of what they don’t know is near-endless. But the Gates’ computer science mantra of “make it work”, combined with their enormous fund-raising capabilities have made them completely secure in their moral superiority and completely immune to the realities of peoples’ lives. Their self-serving philanthropic miscues are just imperialism with a smiley-face. Utterly awful.
I don’t see any comment from Bill Gates stating that he cares about this. I didn’t follow any links. It just stated articles funded by BMGF. Psychopaths don’t feel empathy. Bill Gates doesn’t care. He is getting everything he wants and more.
18 months to come to that conclusion ? Impressive quick thinking to discover the obvious
I feel that this article should at least mention the great job of Collateral Global to highlight the consequences of lockdowns. Forget UNICEF, collateral global have been ringing the alarm since day one. They are also massively underfunded (of course) and we should all help them.
https://collateralglobal.org/