Some lives are more valuable than others

To expand somewhat on Pilger's point in the previous post, this coronavirus hysteria definitively proves that some lives are worth way more than others.

The 24,000 people who die every day because they don't get enough food and water are mostly in what we used to call the "Third World." They're totally invisible to us.

We actually did a pretty good job of ignoring COVID too, as long as it seemed to be mostly a China thing. But when they began dropping in Italy, we suddenly sat up straight and started paying attention. And now that the deaths in Italy have overtaken those in China, we're totally on this "global pandemic."


Which, relatively speaking, is no pandemic at all once you take off your racially-tinted glasses.