Social Distancing Is a Privilege – The Poor Will Suffer:
120 Million Migrant Workers in India Are Starving
and Broke – Walk Hundreds of Miles to Get to Their Homes
Gateway Pundit,
by
Jim Hoft
Original Article
Posted By: Zarin,
3/31/2020 2:36:36 PM
Millions of Indians are displaced and starving due to the coronavirus panic. The globalist elites are pushing their panic on poor and developing countries.
Millions are at risk of starvation, suffering and death due to the lockdown policies.
In India 21% of the population live under $1.90 per day.
Now they are being told to stay home and social distance due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Lives are at stake. Millions of migrant workers are rushing home as India deals with the coronavirus panic.
There are 120 million migrant workers in India:
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 3/31/2020 2:41:46 PM (No. 364156)
Not meaning to be flip at all, but India always has huge numbers of people whose lives are hanging by a thread.
Sorry to hear this, but always when the Old Chinese Curse, "May you live in interesting times!" comes around, the poor people always have fewer ways to cope with whatever it is that is "interesting" than people with more means.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Highlander 3/31/2020 2:44:17 PM (No. 364159)
The world hasn’t made much progress in alleviating human misery since history began. No matter the advancement in technology, politics and panic kill millions as always.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 3/31/2020 2:51:50 PM (No. 364169)
The social distancing lock-down "cure" may be worse than the disease itself in this case. Millions may starve to prevent millions from dying from the Wuhan virus. Which is worse? The problem of a wrecked economy and long term starvation may actually be the worse alternative in India to allowing the disease to run it's course until vaccines become available. But politicians have to look like they are doing something.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Zarin 3/31/2020 3:04:21 PM (No. 364177)
No problem poster #1. I am just sick of my grown relatives freaking out because they have to stay inside and that the times are 'terrible'. They need to get some perspective. They have no sense of history. They forget people like Anne Frank. They forget our pioneer forbears. We live in a land of plenty & luxury. I think a lot of the people who freak out have TDS.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
3XALADY 3/31/2020 3:16:06 PM (No. 364184)
I saw a meme that your family would understand. Six feet apart or six feet under.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 3/31/2020 3:41:28 PM (No. 364205)
I fear the global domino effect this could have.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
GO3 3/31/2020 4:05:41 PM (No. 364222)
#4 x10. On one of the MSM news programs it went into the typically maudlin facetime bits from teary eyed New Yorkers or some other blue city dwellers. There was a nurse, a nurse mind you, who was wailing about all the sickness and death and said (no joke), "I didn't sign up for this!" Ummm...yes you did sweetie. I thought I was seeing a replay of a field hospital in VN when the camera crew came by to further ruin the morale of our troops and the public. This lady was pathetic.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bpl40 3/31/2020 4:13:56 PM (No. 364230)
They practice untouchability. Social distancing should be a piece of cake.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 3/31/2020 4:31:17 PM (No. 364240)
I can’t believe all of these people are without jobs - 2 or 3 of them call me everyday to cut my credit card interest rates, inform me that my social security number has been compromised, or tell me the FBI has a warrant out for my arrest if I don’t call this number immediately. I try to be friendly so I usually start the conversation with “Hello A-Hole” which cause them to go F-Bombs ripple in a tirade that would make Alec Baldwin blush.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
coldoc 3/31/2020 5:00:06 PM (No. 364266)
Wait until it gets fired up in mexico.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bad-hair 3/31/2020 5:23:50 PM (No. 364279)
Operating paradigm in India. I've got mine, up yours. Disgusting country only slightly above China.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 3/31/2020 5:35:11 PM (No. 364298)
I can't even imagine how awful this is, and is going to be, for India. So sad. Their philosophical attitudes towards the life and death cycle may at least be of some solace.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/31/2020 6:28:03 PM (No. 364348)
Within the last year, an article was posted in which we were informed that 65% of Indians still defecated in the street.
I have other things to worry about than the migrant workers in India...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
FormerDem 3/31/2020 6:46:45 PM (No. 364360)
OP, thank you for posting. This is horrifying. May God help them. What are they to do? All of us Americans come from poor folk in the Old World and cannot forget, that is us, the poor ones nobody is very interested in. I am appalled this is happening, and it is not only India, it is everywhere.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 3/31/2020 9:26:48 PM (No. 364476)
Makes you glad you're an American, doesn't it, even though they're trying to turn the country INTO India.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Sofia 3/31/2020 10:57:26 PM (No. 364527)
As a legal immigrant from India and a red white blue conservative US citizen, some of the insensitive, racist and stereotype replies reveals the ignorance and arrogance that is usually displayed by the pseudo secular left. Very sad! Every country has its bad apples and to use it to broad brush a billion people does not suit the folks here. Show some class!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Trigger2 4/1/2020 2:11:29 AM (No. 364599)
Piglousi to the rescue. I foresee another $10.8 billion in pork for India in her next House bill. After all, why use her own ill gotten $100M when she can use other people's money, borrowed or printed out of thin air.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
kono 4/1/2020 2:45:26 PM (No. 365230)
Historical perspective might remind us that 'social distancing' has not stopped plagues from spreading in the past, and that while Anne Frank gives some valuable advice on how to endure long periods of having to shelter in place, what she was trying to avoid still eventually got her, as she wound up being hauled away from her hideout to die in a Nazi concentration camp.
As we read in both the 'Old Testament' and the 'New Testament' -- those whose priority is saving their lives will lose them. A prominent message from Isaiah that is repeatedly cited by Jesus in the Gospels. Letting the scourge sweep the world and do its damage may be the least destructive strategy, cumulatively speaking.
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I am very sorry for their lot, but my county is suffering from job loss and increasing numbers of virus and death. Why doesn't the affluent Indian population help them?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Mushroom 4/2/2020 5:35:13 AM (No. 365800)
So my state is 'locked down' except for essential employees. Apparently, packing and shipping women's wear is an essential task and dear spouse is required to work. Her cancer doc is livid but if she wants to keep a job and not end up at Amazon, she has to keep at it. I tell her to stay home and we will just eat the costs, but medical care is very expensive without insurance.
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