A vaccine is only expected to be available in about a year and a half to two years.

In the 21st century we are used to everything being done "instantly" but unfortunately this virus is one massive problem that will take a long time to defeat.

On 2020-04-10 13:30:27 Tegwane said:
On 2020-04-10 13:23:34 johndoe69za said: On 2020-04-10 08:43:50 Tegwane said: Font ' The fact that the very poor cannot work isn't a failure of social distancing - it's a failure of our current economic system that lacks sufficient social security. And when I say "our" I'm talking about the globe. Policies like Universal Basic Income should have been in place long before the crisis.'

Like all good ideas, absolute nonsense, WHO is going to pay for the 'Universal basic income?'

How about if the food that gets thrown away gets used to feed the starving instead.

How about vacant properties get used to house the homeless.

The current concept of ownership is where the problem lies and money is a man made concept

JohnD, socialistic drivel. Who grew the food, built the houses, come up with a better argument or would you prefer we revert back to tree dwelling?

Try spend a bit of time first thinking through your answers.

Labourers in a farm owned by someone else grew the food, labourers working for a business owner built the houses.

Ask your farmers in the UK how much produce gets destroyed because it is not picture perfect and good enough to sell in a supermarket because it is ugly.

Why does socialist drivel not work, cause at heart humans are genetically programmed to be selfish and egotistical. Is enough food produced in a year to feed every human being on this planet, yes, do half the multi million pound flats in London stand empty, yes, has the price of property in the UK exceeded the affordability of the average citizen, yes

I am part of the haves who can understand the point of view of the have nots

It is not worth arguing with someone with a closed mind

On 2020-04-10 13:33:52 Need4Passion said:
On 2020-04-10 13:23:34 johndoe69za said: On 2020-04-10 08:43:50 Tegwane said: Font ' The fact that the very poor cannot work isn't a failure of social distancing - it's a failure of our current economic system that lacks sufficient social security. And when I say "our" I'm talking about the globe. Policies like Universal Basic Income should have been in place long before the crisis.'

Like all good ideas, absolute nonsense, WHO is going to pay for the 'Universal basic income?'

How about if the food that gets thrown away gets used to feed the starving instead.

How about vacant properties get used to house the homeless.

The current concept of ownership is where the problem lies and money is a man made concept

That problem is not COVID19 specific. If it was practiced centuries ago, we wouldn't have poor, homeless, and starvation.

But then there wouldn't be any rich people to start with to throw away food that could feed the hungry and vacant property for the homeless because what's the point of working harder than the next to be equal to the next while they do less or nothing to be the same.

Hell, it's so easy to implement too. Just tax people earning Megabucks 80% and feed and house the poor with it right? Watch how they run. This is nothing to do with COVID19.

With or without humans the world will survive, it is very interesting to look down on earth from a plane and see the international borders