Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response among old and young

Re:Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response ... by kortilla on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @11:24PM (#24914779)

Yes you certainly can. Famines are not spread equally. The people that can afford to have food shipped in (i.e. anyone who can afford to order things on Amazon) could comfortably remain fat while the entire lower class in their local area suffered from a famine.

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Re:Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response ... by Retric on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @12:06PM (#24920414)

Having food shipped in still requires it to be created somewhere to be shipped out.

It’s very possible for some percentage of the population to starve even during a food surplus, but starving people will bid up the cost of food to the point where you can’t get a 40% of the population to have a surplus in a famine in any society that we know about.

Here is the official definition for the minimum to qualify as a famine:

“At least 20% of households in an area face extreme food shortages with a limited ability to cope The prevalence of acute malnutrition in children exceeds 30% The death rate exceeds two people per 10,000 people per day“

That’s killing off over 7% of the population per year.

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Re:Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response ... by kortilla on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:53PM (#24925103)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_South_Sudan_famine

56% overweight or obese: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S18714...

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