. . . . politicians are drawing back from or rejecting lockdowns because, they say, their countries just can't afford it.
They can't afford to hide at home waiting for a vaccine.
Not just Brazil, but India, for two examples.
If you go to work you might contribute to the spread of the disease and the misery and death it causes and, heck, you might even die yourself, though that's much less likely.
If you don't go to work you lose your home or your car, you and your children get tossed into the street, or maybe you just starve.
In most of the world, nobody is sending you a relief check, nobody is declaring an eviction holiday, nobody is providing low interest loans you don't even have to pay back if your business jumps through the right hoops.
Watching BBC World News.
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