Poverty is a grinding, destructive force. I don’t even know how people cope with it emotionally, where they find the resilience, or how they must feel each hungry day. But that the Covid pandemic and all the measures we lived through have made it worse, as reported this week, can come as no surprise.
Pollsters Geopoll put out poll results that showed earnings fell immediately the pandemic started, from April to July 2020, and then fell again and by much more from August to November of the same year.
