At least 10,000 cars line up in an orderly fashion in San Antonio, all full of hungry, increasingly desperate people. Thousands already arrived the night before just to get a chance to eat. “We just can’t feed this many,” said the CEO of the local food bank that Texans have descended upon.
It is a scene playing out across the country; 1,300 cars swamped the drive-thru Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank. The United Center, home to the Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks, has been transformed into a huge food warehouse, as COVID-19 has driven a wedge through the cracks in American society, where tens of millions of people now face unemployment and hunger.
Some have claimed that the food lines are a glimpse into what a future American socialist state would look like. However, this is not a hypothetical society but a very real present. It is Breadline 2020, today’s America. Existing food banks are struggling to cope; one worker of a food bank in Baton Rouge, LA, claimed that the current situation is worse than after Hurricane Katrina.
MintPress News spoke to a number of people on the front lines attempting to keep America fed during the worst pandemic in a century. “Needs have skyrocketed not just here but around the country,” said Eleanor Goldfield, a creative activist, and journalist.
“One man who called us here at D.C. Mutual Aid to request help said that he had walked several miles the day before in order to get to a local food bank only to find that they were closed. He said he was completely out of food and didn’t understand how they could just shut down operations like that.”
Along with Guayaquil, Ecuador, the New York-New Jersey metro area is one of the world epicenters of the coronavirus pandemic. Authorities have barely any idea about how many people have died; New York State’s estimate for the New York City death toll is over 1,000 more than the city’s own count – an indication of just how badly overwhelmed the system is. Over one percent of all retirees are currently in hospital with COVID-19. “People are dying left and right, no exaggeration,” Derrick Smith, a local certified registered nurse anesthetist, told us last week, “I’ve never imagined or seen our healthcare system take such a beating before.” Makeshift morgues – cooled trailers full of bodies – are a feature of most hospitals in the area now, and mass graves are being dug on an uninhabited island in the Long Island Sound.
“New York City is facing a crisis unlike anything we’ve seen. As the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic continues, more New Yorkers are facing food insecurity,” said the Food Bank for New York City. It estimates that it will have to provide 15 million meals over the next 90 days […]
via Long Breadlines Form Outside of Food Banks as America Struggles to Cope With COVID-19 Fallout
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Two things I know. In the picture, one of the vehicles “breadlining” is a Hummer. You can’t be poor and hungry driving a Hummer: that’s a cosmic impossibility. Also, since this C-19 BS began (here anyway) every death, bar none, is a C-19 death. So no wonder people are dying of C-19. If a bus rolled over and killed 30 people (not that buses are runnning mind) that would inflate C-19 death stats by 30. I think a few people are finally catching on to the scam but an awful lot of ’em around here are scared shitless and more and more are staying away from neighbours and wearing face masks. I have to admit, they did a great job pulling off this pan-panic false flag.
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Sha’tara, I, too, was puzzled to see vehicles breadlining. I don’t own a car myself so didn’t really trust my judgement here. But this was the main reason I gave up my car 10 years ago, I could no longer justify the expense of insurance, registration fees, maintenance, and petrol.
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Over the years I’ve learned to expect to hear and see the incongruous from Americans. This reminds me of a cartoon I saw years ago in which a beggar begged on the streets from a small car. At the end of his day he drove his begging car to a parking lot and parked in INSIDE a monster luxury vehicle in which his chauffeur drove him to his mansion…
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When you see headlines like these, you know that somewhere in the mix shortages and hunger coming next
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