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I think you may agree, something is going on, something we can't quite figure out, but everyone knows, something just ain't right regarding this coronavirus. Our governments told us the virus would be a great leveller but once again, it is the poorest communities which have been hit the hardest.
In the north of England, the poor are desperately looking to charities, church parishes and food-banks for meals and many are suffering from hunger as their financial plight toughens in the wake of Covid-19. The old, needy, sick, invalids and the homeless in Englands most deprived areas in the north are suffering the most and their needs are colossal.
Even people with work can't make ends meet as minimall wages disappear just as fast they get them with unpaid bills swallowing them up as many of the poor have taken a large dip in wages due to the virus, increasing their money stress. The level of need in the poor areas is now unprecedented but never mentioned on MSM.
Help from the government is coming but "too little, too late," with many of the poor falling through the cracks. Loneliness, depression and mental health problems are soaring as poverty-stricken people are forced into lockdown after lockdown. Many people are becoming angry because the government is not listening to the poor, they are the ones who need help.
As the world approaches 100 million covid-19 cases and 1.5 million deaths I myself have some underlying doubts as to just what is really going on. Strange stories are circulating, things ain't adding up, statistics are not backing up the so-called facts.
In the UK, Boris Johnson and his government would have us believe the virus is running through the British Isles totally out of control but the stats tell us an entirely different story.
In a July report commissioned by Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, scientists estimated that there could be 119,000 deaths in the UK if a second spike coincided with a peak of winter flu. last week that figure stood at 54,286 – less than half that.
In fact, the second peak seems to have passed – over the past week, there has been an average of 22,287 new infections a day, down from 24,430 the week before.