On present available figures the number of children born in Guernsey each year is about six hundred and twenty; enough to fit comfortably into a small international jet.
Now imagine that jet crashing and killing all of those children. It would be an tragedy of international proportions, probably reaching every news outlet in the western world.
Now crash thirty such jets every single day for a whole year.
The loss is unimaginable, which is just as well because you don’t need to imaging it.
Because that many children and more, all aged five and under, are dying each and every year and mostly from treatable diseases.
The actual figure is about 6.9 million.
Why isn’t it news?
Why isn’t anything being done about it?
Because it is all happening in the Third World and a lot of it in sub saharan Africa.
It’s happening a long way away to poor black people living in poor black countries which don’t count for much.
6.9 million children every year.
On the other hand, the contestants for this years US presidential elections have spent about US$2.6 billion each on trying to get elected.
That’s about US$740 which could have been used to save each dead child; probably much more money than was actually needed.
But spending money in that fashion doesn’t buy you influence with the most powerful country in the world.
A country which can’t even be bothered to look after all of its own people let alone the rest of the world.
And we look to America for guidance and inspiration because…?
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