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Ask HN: What is the solution to the Covid orphan crisis?

2 points by bsldld ↗ HN
I just saw a news piece about the growing number of orphans due to COVID. It is a crisis on multiple levels. Children could be trafficked, sold, physically and sexsually abused, illegally adopted etc. What is their future? What is a solution to this crisis that not many are aware of or not talking about?

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h2odragon
16 years ago, there were news stories about how Hurricane Katrina had erased New Orleans from the Earth and killed unknowable, but surely large, numbers of people while doing it.

They still had Mardi Gras next year, and the year after, and so on.

I suspect that you may have heard some exaggerations here, too.

bsldld
I don't think it is that way for multiple reasons. One of them is that this tragedy is at global scale, and most poor countries don't even have access to enough vaccines even now. You can search for government comments from countries from South Asia and South-East Asia e.g. India, Indonesia etc on the subject of orphans due to COVID.