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| A much under-reported Covid disaster is happening right under our Canadian noses... |
Surprisingly, and without much press attention, Latin America ——rather than Europe, Asia, Africa and even (Anglo) North America —- has become the world leader in Covid deaths.
Peru, for instance, leads the world in covid deaths per capita but the number of excess deaths in the last six months suggests many Covid deaths are still not included in the already grim total.
Despite an excellent government response, social realities mean that there is much more social mingling required simply to live a basic day to day life in Peru, compared to a place like Canada.
Poverty is killing people there much for the same reasons as it is killing Latinos in the US : by forcing poor people to mingle more daily often than it does for us rich folk who (a) work from home virtually, (b) bank by internet and (c) own big fridges and freezers allowing us to avoid a daily ‘from shop to shop to shop’ trek just to eat.
By adding up all the Covid death totals in the countries that make up Latin America and comparing it to their total percentage of world population, it becomes clear that region has suffered by far the worst of any region in the world.
Even more remarkably, their stories have hardly featured in the world's mass media.
As a memo to Canada’s journalists, might it be politic to say “Latino Lives Matter” (LLM) ?
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