In other news: lots of disasters going around

while the US MSM seems to be reporting only about local riots and virus hysteria, (hey, it's election year) but they are ignoring that a lot of countries are coping with the Covid epidemic, including India and in Africa.

Attention: the real danger is hunger in the next few months.
Because the crops aren't planted because of the shutdown, or rot because the shutdown stops them from being transported to storage, or later, transported to the cities so poor folks in the megacities of the third world can eat, or because the farmers can't get fertilizer or pesticides to protect their growing crop.

Then there are the locusts, which are devastating areas in Africa, India and the Middle East.

a lot of Filipino OFW have died of the virus, often because they are caregivers (nurses, doctors) or worked on cruise ships. But there have been epidemics in the workers in Saudi (?dormitory spread?)
and this article notes that 300 plus Filipinos have died in Saudi. either of the virus or of "unknown causes". But Filipinos are not the only ones dying: but few reports about Indians, Pakistanis, Indoys, etc. dying. And of course, not all are dying of covid: many workers have been laid off and/or have not been paid, so have no income, so they are scrounging for food etc.

MigrantRights have a couple of articles about their plight: This one is about South Asian workers in Bahrain.

the reason I noted "dormitory spread" is because even in rich, sophisticated Singapore there was a huge outbreak in worker's quarters LINK

few visiting shiny clean Singapore are aware of this area: But when we were there, a friend of Joy took us to a bodega of shops in the migrant neighborhood so we could buy cheap clothing, and I almost felt at home there.

In Zimbabwe, the big headlines are about the Health minister being indicted for graft over his choice of Covid testing....but the real story is here: Village health workers trying to cope with the epidemic, along with the routine problems of Malaria, HIV, 
diarrhea etc.

and in the meanwhile, floods are happening all over:  including in India and China.

there are rumors (denied by experts) that the huge Three Gorges dam is starting to overflow or is in danger of collapse.

this could be as bad as the huge 1975 Banqiao Dam disaster.

Sigh. In our prayers.