Some states hit harder by food insecurity linked to COVID-19
https://www.feedstuffs.com/news/some-st … d-covid-19Food insecurity in America is reaching an all-time high during the COVID-19 pandemic, but there are large regional differences in the severity of the impact.
Experts project that more than 50 million Americans will be food insecure in 2020, including about 17 million children, said Craig Gundersen, ACES distinguished professor in the department of agricultural and consumer economics at the University of Illinois.
Gundersen estimated food insecurity using Map the Meal Gap, an interactive model he developed for Feeding America, a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks in the U.S. For the current report, he combined Map the Meal Gap* data with projected unemployment numbers.
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https://map.feedingamerica.orgFormer surgeon general Vivek Murthy, co-chair of the Biden coronavirus task force, appeared on “Fox News Sunday” and also gave an interview to National Public Radio. In both, he blamed the population, not the corporations and government, for the resurgence of COVID-19, citing what he called “pandemic fatigue.”
“People are letting down their guard in terms of social gatherings,” he said, citing dinner parties and other small-scale events. He said nothing about factories and warehouses where hundreds or thousands work side-by-side with barely a pretense of social distancing.
He called for a focus on “expanding testing capacity and our contact tracing force.” That is all well and good, but these measures do not prevent the spread of the virus, they only detect it.
He called for “evidence-based guidance for schools, businesses, and faith organizations,” language that presumes that schools and workplaces will stay open, and churches will hold services, regardless of a deadly pandemic.
When his Fox interviewer pressed him on Biden’s attitude to a lockdown, Murthy replied, “This is a measure of last resort,” adding, “If we just lock down, we’re going to exacerbate pandemic fatigue. We need to approach this with a scalpel rather than with the blunt force of an axe.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/1 … n16-1.htmlYes, yes the source, but it makes a good point. I don't think it's helpful to lay the bulk of the blame on what people do on their own while ignoring what they do at work.