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As a matter of fact,we are currently experiencing the result of the Covid-19 pandemic through out the world.
There are so many people who are suffering and because most of the people are now unemployed because of many companies either closed or lessen their workers, the lives of the people getting worst.
      Lack of foods and other personal necessities.
      Lack of finances.
      Lack of transportation because of quarantine.
Those are the major problems we are now still facing while the pandemic continue spreading because there is no cure for this virus until now.

What will be the solution for this?
How we can help our government on this current circumstances?
Does bitcoin or any digital currency could help?

No, it cannot help by itself alone.  The only ones who can help, are people who are kind enough to share their excess or savings to those who are in need.  Cryptocurrency can be used  as a tool such as a means of donation (where fiat currency can also be used), then right after, these donated cryptocurrencies will then be converted to cash to buy foods for the needy.  At the end of the day, these cryptocurrencies or digital currency have no mind on its own so don't expect any help from it.  


The best thing to help the government is to follow their social distancing guidelines and other instruction regarding the prevention of the pandemic.  If we have extra we can donate either in form of currency or basic needs items.  

What I do think can be done is :
•Support the Local markets , your local sellers who grow e everything in their own Garden , the prices might be a little high but , you are getting safe and Quality Products.
•Look for Online Jobs , because no one can actually live without one for a long time.
•Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies are providing some opportunities for the same , people are buying/selling services online on platform like these.
•We need to understand that , we need to help ourselves first , therefore we need to save up and stop investing in unnecessary products or services. We need to manage our accounts very well because this is going to be something which will go on for years .

The current economic decline we see is not the worst to come , we will soon enough see banks failing and people not being able to pay their mortgages.

Without any job creation by the government one cannot even apply for one therefore it needs to start by *creating jobs * the government needs to set up manufacturing plants so that they can
1. Employ people
2. Produce their own resources without any need to import

Export/import can serve as a major downfall for the business since it is very easy to spread the virus this way plus due to shortage of resources the prices of imported products are either too high or either the product is unavailable.

Initially,you must be obey some rules and regulation whereby you belong as good example to others .For safety never isolate your body protector as vision against pandemic and it is for the sake to your family and neighborhood ,despite all the World Health are still seamlessly have a follow up operation regarding this.

This question being asked reminds me of all those threads I've seen asking if bitcoin can eradicate poverty, homelessness, or whatever social ill you can think of--and IMO the answer is no, and bitcoin isn't going to help the global economy recover from the COVID-19 outbreak. 

Why would it?  Bitcoin is either a form of money or an investment, depending on how you look at it, and neither one of those types of things is necessarily going to help anyone if they can't access enough of it.  Sure, if you gave every person a stimulus airdrop of 0.5BTC or something like that, it might be a temporary band-aid....but even that isn't going to happen.

Anyway, I hadn't heard of any food shortages anywhere on my continent (N. America).  Not only haven't shipments been slowed down, but restaurants are starting to reopen.  Hopefully in places where that sort of thing is a problem it'll be temporary.

What bitcoin could do is more on the aftermath, as we already have bitcoin in part of our market. I can't think of any way that bitcoin could help the world to ease poverty, homelessness etc.
ok just imagine that the world has so much more monetary value than the cryptocurrency yet we are hoping for this little fraction to make it disappear. It's futile to think that way.

Are we really having food shortages? or we are just having a huge number of people hoarding their goods? coz there is no way that we are going to experience shortages in our essentials, they were never closed.

Bitcoin is never the solution to socioeconomic problems that the world is facing currently. Not now, not ever. It will be a tool to help lessen the burden for some people, but it's not a one-size-fits-all thingy which everyone can benefit from.

Food shortage is slowly being addressed by most countries by restarting the supply chain and allowing more essential businesses on logistics and food manufacturing to reopen. Also, people are now trying to grow food within their gardens and whatever land space they have to at least add something in the plate. In these hard times, everyone is affected with little to no exemption--well except the ultra-elite, perhaps--but people still make-do in order to survive. As lockdowns are getting lifted and economies are slowly being reopened, these issues would be resolved, although at the price of more infections and possibly deaths, I'm afraid.

AstraZeneca plans to ship their vaccine by September (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/05/21/astrazeneca-plans-ship-oxford-covid-19-vaccine-september/) so there's a little glimmer of hope in that area, although the possibility of the vaccine not working as expected is still high, so the best bet that we have until this whole thing is over is by the end of the year or the first quarter of 2021.

A vaccine would be nice, but while waiting for that, the global population should adhere to health regulations inorder to reduce the effect of a second wave of the virus; social distancing, washing your hands, not touching your face. The government also has a role to play by providing PPE for the general population. Price of face masks spiked in prices in some regions due to demand and not everyone can get them or afford to dispose them after use.

• Sensitization exercises should be intensified to ensure everyone is keeping to health guidelines. This is a global effort and needs the contribution of everyone
• Inventing cheap hacks which would be effective in preventing the spread, such as the use of cloth face masks (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/cloth-face-cover.html) which are a lot cheaper than the N-95's and can be effective when combined with other preventive measures.

As mentioned above keeping to health guidelines is our best action.

Bitcoin does not impact the economy, it is rather affected by it. Government fiscal policies and market sentiments are the main factors that influences that.

Don't also forget those brave medical front-liners that are helping to cure those infected and recovering patients. They're also risking their lives and the main problem that they're dealing with is the lack of medical supplies and protective gear.

Also, many of them are also losing this battle and instead of them increasing in numbers, they are decreasing. And that's a bigger problem if we start to have a shortage of them.

As for the food and finances, if there's already nothing left for most citizens. What the governments are doing is to borrow money from the World Bank to sustain this problem temporarily.

I think the current systems are not that very efficient and sustainable, but that is what most people keep running to even with the evidence that they are not so reliable.. There has to be systemic/structural changes. People should be able to fend for themselves with farming and creating of other basic things. But you can't easily do this in the current city structures. I honestly wouldn't build cities/towns without taking individual farming in account.

The reason that the system is not efficient and sustainable is because we the masses grew dependent on the state and we all address our problem by bickering that the state is the problem, we depend so much on the state that we will go down with them when the time comes, I do believe we can still resolve this dependency, with the rise of brilliant minds, I hope that we will have a better future. Urban farming is a thing now and I agree that we should have a sustainable food sources near our cities though this will be hard because of geological factors, environmental and personal.

Thank you for adding those i forgot to include:
      Lack of medical supplies and protective gear
      Shortage of Medical staff
It's really heartbreaking  to think that we are facing now this pandemic which everyone is affected too much specially those poorest of the poor.

In my country, we don't experience food shortage because essential businesses are still operating, but the problem is the financial capability to buy essential goods. What our local government did was to provide food for families like rice and canned goods. However, it's still not enough so other sectors gave financial aid to poor people and even if they keep saying it's not enough, I think there's also a limitation because everyone can't just keep on asking for help to the government, they are also responsible to feed themselves.

Finding a solution for this pandemic is difficult, that's why if you are fortunate enough, you can help by donating to people who need help. But if you can't, you can start by helping yourself and find something to do so you can earn even though there is a pandemic. Also, bitcoin can't be that big help for everyone, some can use it for digital payment without the use of paper money than can also bring bacteria but bitcoin and digital currency are not accessible for everyone. It may be helpful for others, but not one of the primary factors that can help everyone in this pandemic.

It's heart melting that the poorest of the poor are the ones that's being badly affected by this pandemic not just with food supplies and stuffs but, I've read incidents those that has been infected by the virus. It's a delicate thing to discuss but not every country has a good health care. It cost a lot to recover for the hospitalization of this covid19.

I'd also like to share the good vibes and salute that there are also individuals and groups that are sharing help as volunteers. In these hard times, unity and concern to others are not being forgotten.

The shortages which we are discussing are not really the problem, because there isn’t any. When corona outbreak started at that time all the essential services were up and running. The industries were never shut down, all they had is cut down the employees to 50% but at the same time production was running.

The stuff only got stuck into the transports, roads were closed and boundaries were made city to city and state to state etc.

This surely slowed down the process for while but it did not stop the Quantitative production.

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Yes things got messy due to this but if you carefully look out the curves of corona in some countries then it’s becoming normal, flatter.

Yes we are in economic crisis but surely no shortages are there. Economic crisis is because of industries such as automobile, average cash flow in banks, IT industries etc.

We can help by pushing Bitcoin payments for online purchases, because Bitcoin is a contact-less payment option, it reduces the chance of people getting infected and if we can reduce physical contact with cash and coins (fiat currencies) then we will win the virus pandemic.

Bitcoin can also remove the middle man (Banks) between the consumer and food providers, which will increase the profit for them, because they will be paying less fees.  ;)  The more money that are put back into the manufacturers and farmers pockets, will create more job opportunities for the people who lost their jobs or it will protect jobs that are currently employing people.  ;)

there is likely a food surplus, in fact. part of the trouble is that supply chains are broken. demand from restaurants has plunged, leading to farmers destroying entire crops and batches of milk. at the same time, since demand has shifted to retail (people cooking at home) with supply lagging behind, you can't always find what you want at the market. while this has improved some, i am still noticing periodic shortages (paper products, eggs, beef, tofu, high quality grains, etc) where i live.

another problem with this dynamic is that donations to food banks often come from inventory surpluses at major grocers. those surpluses are all being bought up by retail consumers now. as a result, there is an emerging food shortage among food banks at the same time that demand for food assistance is doubling or tripling because of high unemployment. https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/06/16/coronavirus-food-banks-hunger-serfaty-lead-dnt-vpx.cnn

one survey just showed that 1/4 of california's population is now experiencing food insecurity. that's quite drastic when compared to levels seen in 2008. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/pandemic-food-banks-hunger/613036/

i'm sure the situation is worse globally but a lot of americans will go hungry this year. if the feds stop extending unemployment benefits and if food banks can't sustain themselves, things could get ugly rather quickly.

Your last question is kind of funny lol. But anyway, cryptocurrency can only help in the area where it's already helping, and that is transaction.

Most people have chosen to be buying what they need online and have it delivered to their doorsteps, though the lockdown has been eased in most places. And to be sincere the lockdown was useless to me, because there was no point in doing it since the virus didn't stop there but kept on spreading, and we were also hurting our economy, so what's the point of it? What pisses me off the most is that a lot of companies now want to sack their staff.

I think bitcoin could help in any way like if there are people who owned a large amount of bitcoin and with a kind heart to donate to the government just to help government different sectors to stand on end. It will help for the financial funds of the government and if it does happen ,this could be a way for the government to accept bitcoin and they will realize that bitcoin is essential to our economy like our fiat currency.It will not guaranty,Just my own opinion.

Anyway,lockdowns could help to prevent the spreading of virus if people will collaborate with the government procedures. Not all people now has a capability to buy what they need because of lack of financial.Most of them relying on other people's donations because the relief goods from the government is not enough.

Better stop asking help to objects mate. Crypto can't help this in anyway. Only human beings that would donate could help, or the government doing some big movement out there that could possibly benefit both sides though in this case, since they haven't been doing much, you can already assume that they themselves are having a pretty hard time. Time is the only solution to this problem and anything we do can't change that. We can help each other but that's pretty much similar to a band-aid solution for now.

That doesn't make "Bitcoin" a helper. It's the owner of the "Bitcoin" that helped. Stop undermining the efforts of others as an effect of using Crypto to help others, it's like your saying that those that donated money(fiat) to donations are actually the "Government" helping and not those individuals themselves.

Everyone is really working very hard to get it going, as government is easing their lockdown and quarantine, people are going back to work and opening their business, long way to go, but everything should be taken with a baby steps.


Just follow the government rule, everyone should cooperate so that we can move forward.


No really, perhaps being used as cashless transactions, but that just about it.

It is in these conditions that we only realize the importance of character education from an early age to everyone. Implanting the values of empathy and humanity as well as the values taught by religion.


There are three solutions, namely through:
- Raising donations or
- Creating a humanitarian project that makes many corona affected groups productive with all the limitations they have.
- Creating equity crowdfunding to provide working capital for productive small and medium businesses, especially those affected by corona.


Doing good. Thinking and acting with priority so as not to add to the burden of the state and add to the burden of others. For example in my country, for positive patients, the state corona must spend a budget of USD 11,000-18,000 per person until the patient is declared cured. Spread the goodness so that many people will become agents of change.

What is needed by the government at this time is our assistance to strengthen the resilience of the community around our neighborhood through the community support system. Pandemics provide a moment for the middle and lower class to consolidate the base of the pyramid, so that the economy rotates horizontally at the base of the pyramid, not spin vertically upward but slightly downward. So far, the base of the pyramid is only used as a market or population to make profits from large corporations. If the middle and lower economic groups at the bottom of the pyramid consolidate, then the equal distribution of welfare at the bottom of the pyramid will be achieved.


Bitcoin and cryptocurrency can't help anything. The ones who can help are those who have bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. We as bitcoin users and bitcoin fans must realize that the function of bitcoin is greasing the transaction. In fact, many who use bitcoin as a safe haven asset is proof that bitcoin owners only use it for investment instruments. There is nothing wrong with that but come back again if we want to open our hearts a little and our wallets are many people around us and around the world who need our help. In India, there was a scarcity of female sanitary napkins, in many countries starving even before the covid-19 outbreak occurred.

https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000114546/download/?_ga=2.22016188.687679899.1592459829-1675269593.1592459829

the known solution for now is to stay at home so that situation wont get worst . we can help our government that way and we can also help them if we can donate some stuff to the people in need if we have extra. cryptos help too because we can use them as form of donations as well or we can use them to send and recieve money without going outside .things are so far manageable this way so i dont get the point of worrying too much  .  cases are also continue to decline and some places are operating normally again

Indeed the terrible impact of covid-19, infected victims continues to grow. Even the number of deaths continues to grow, therefore
we are must follow the health protocol. So the spread of covid-19 can decrease, and it can also help the government reduce infected
victims. Actually there are many solutions that can be done to prevent the spread of covid-19. Among using bitcoin or altcoins for
payment, because if you use cryptocurrency for payment it can prevent the spread of covid-19. Transactions using crypto only require
mobile phone and internet, so there is no need for physical contact.

Because of the continuously cases of covid-19 in many countries that is the reason of shortaging of foods and many establishment and companies are cant operates thats why many economies are really down. Like others said if all people in every countries are need to use the health protocol that is a chance of decreasing the cases of covid-19 in every country.

the way we help the government is to break the chain of this virus by following the protocol given by the government which is lockdown, bitcoin can't help anything because bitcoin is an investment, maybe those who still have a number of bitcoins can now be helped as long as they don't work

First of all, I want to help my family. We had plans, but because of the coronavirus, everything is postponed indefinitely. It was planned to increase revenue, but unfortunately we only heard a decline in income. I would like to accelerate the return to normal, and not just lie down and wait for it to end.

The main solution of this case is to stand together. One man cant solve everything on its own. Not only government but each individual. Everyone must have a role. The government must work hard to implement a prevention scheme so that the virus does not spread widely, heal the infected, even take care of the country's economy which certainly get the impact because of pandemic. The society should also fully support the government by complying with the government's policies, and still protecting themselves and their families, the rich help the poor survive. Donation is one of the example.

Food shortage wouldn't really be a problem if the people who are trying to make the most out of their products kept giving it to people who do not need it but have an option to choose it instead of people who do need it. Let me explain it like this, if you remove 50% of the food from USA nothing happens, just distribute the 50% left over food to everyone equally and nobody dies, you know how much that %50 you removed means? It means ALL of Africa can feed on it.

So, we are talking about USA having excess food that they trash every year at a rate where it could feed the entire African continent. Why? Because companies need to give that "option" of picking if they want this product or that product to Americans in order to max their profits while Africans can't pay for it.

The main problem on the medical team as the front guard against corona virus is the lack of Personal Protective Equipment and the limited number of medical teams and cannot compensate for the many patients who are corona positive.

In my opinion food is still available, but many rich people who are greedy to hoard food in their own homes, so that people with lower economic levels can not buy the food because it has run out. The purchasing power of the middle class and lower is also reduced because there was no income gained when this pandemic began.

The government will be their helper to overcome this economic crisis, the most important thing is still to follow the rules and protocols set by the government.

reading about this, I remember a very sad condition in my country. There was a mom who died because of not eating for several days during the pandemic. They don't have any food to eat. He left her kids and husband. It is not in my near location. but watching the news about that at that time really made me worse enough, I sometimes think that I don't get enough what I want and I complained about it. But after watching that news, I realized that I'm very lucky person, who can still eat with my family without thinking so hard.
That's why, for whoever we are, let's see people around us, who need our help, we must give them at least for their foods for the shake of their life. The sad story should not happen again.


About financial conditions, everybody and the country face it and this may be a worse time to time. This becomes a global crisis. What we need to do is not spreading this virus to many more people, we should stop the spreading of this virus by following the instruction of health protocol. Additionally, we can maximize our efforts to still work in whatever we can do. It may be very difficult for some people especially in my country. They should work for food, but it is also risky for them. We should help each other and do our best.

You can earn crypto currencies in many ways just like how you can earn fiat so the digital or cryptos cannot be a solution for this pandemic. Government have to help the people who are in need because not any individual can afford such huge amount.I will say governments don't really care about you, they care about their economic depression only for that you have to work and pay the taxes again.Maybe this help people to realize the importance of decentrlization.

So that we can help our government, we must take care of ourselves and other people around us. Measures must be taken to protect against the virus in order to stop its spread. I think this virus can only be defeated together. Together we can create conditions for a stable situation and after that it will be possible to implement measures to overcome the crisis. We must support local producers and look for new markets for products. You may have to give up some habitual things.

These charities are great at helping COVID 19 but it is never possible to help so many people in the country one by one Most of the people are living in crisis due to weak government system. Due to the epidemic everything is closed and the farmers are not able to produce Due to the financial crisis, they are unable to cultivate and there is a food shortage Due to which the country's economy is being hampered It is not possible to improve the country's economy until everything is opened up.

One of the best thing we can do to help our government from preventing the spreading of the virus is to follow their instructions to us,always keep in mind that its for our own safety. In that way you are already helping our society from avoiding the spread of the said virus.Many stablishment are still close and some are already returning back to operate, that pandemic brought to us suffering and struggling in many aspects in our lives. Food shortage is one of the big challenge that our government facing of today because of economic failure,many in different countries are hungry, and government not able to support everyone due to lack of budget.And If we are capable in life just learn how to share something to anyone who needs help. Eventually everything will be alright.

To be honest, it is really hard to overcome the current situation of the pandemic of the corona virus because even our governments don't know how to take care of it, and they don't know how to deal with people who are starving. Collaborating with our government is one of the good way for us not to suffer for long, even there are a lot of things that we don't want in our government on how they lead because collaborating with them could help to lessen the virus cases and for us not to starve to death.

Start your own vegetable garden, take care of chickens if you have the land, buy and HODL/save necessary supplies. What else can we do?


Follow the quarantine, and social distancing protocols.


YES, it helps you hedge, and it helps you save.

Bitcoin payment is what we need right now, its security and safety towards pandemic is really certain. Digital currency should be the number 1 option of all of the transactions right now, but we all know that not all markets are engaging in that kind of system. Bitcoin should be used in many transaction to reduce the risk of getting the disease from a tangible or paper money. By that, we can help the promotion of bitcoin in just a simple way of using it so that people will see the importance of bitcoin amidst of this pandemic. People right now are only relying on those online shopping where it is less hassle and payment is only done by the use of technology.

Boy scout motto "Be prepared!" I think it will be the right time to apply on our daily living during this time of covid-19 pandemic. A one good example of this is, if you have enough space on your home backyard,why you don't try to plant a sweet potatoes,cassava and a different kind of vegetables,i think it could help anyone during the food shortage.

I'm a former scout but this quote doesn't necessarily refer to everyone. Preparing needs a lot of things, savings, and a high-paying job for us to be able to save. When the wage of your work is not enough, more is spent on the bills, so how will they save? How about the people who live in the town, some of the lots don't have backyards and I guess if there's one, those foods How about those people who live in the city, some of the lots don't have backyards, and I guess if there's one, it's not enough to get you out of hunger for how many months. Yes, we always expect that crisis will always occur day by day, but this current crisis is different and it almost takes all of our earnings. It's not just about the savings and preparedness, it's about how you grind to have a good job with good pay rates for you to be able to save.

One of the greatest lessons that this pandemic is going to left behind is that we are not as powerful as a society as we thought we were, our technology is impressive and yet something incredibly basic and tiny to the point we cannot even see it with the naked eye has slowed down our society as a whole, the truth is there is not much we can do as there is no solution to this other than finding the vaccine or a therapy effective for those that show the worst symptoms, for the rest that cannot help on that front our goal should be to respect all the sanitary recommendations and if possible to donate some money to those in need.

There is no other way to help our own country but to follow the protocols of our government because in the end, it will be for our own welfare. Bitcoin is not the solution of this problem. We should be more united in this time of pandemic and help one another particularly those poorest of the poor who are mostly affected. And hopefully we can come up with a vaccine in the next days so that this corona virus will now be stopped.

There are many links got broken in the production and supply of food and its related things which would definitely lead to decline on economics for most countries. Moreover, we are still in the beginning phase of pandemic and we are yet to watch and experience the real negative consequences of pandemic if the situation is not getting better world wide at any time soon. Fortunately many countries already started working on lifting lockdown restrictions but resuming back to normal life and usual economy related activities is still a question.

Because, many people got back to their home place/country because of lockdown and no job reasons. While restoring to production state, employers may face difficulties with lack of available resources/manpower; this is the thing exactly happening in my country. I am afraid about scarcity of food in coming days or at least high prices for all things due to low supply.

Food shortage happens around the world even before the pandemic, we have ignored it because its not us but believe me eventually it will happen everywhere in the world. Just because its not here right now doesn't mean it is not happening and when you look at rest of the world there is too many people living in the world that resources are getting more and more scarce while buildings are getting more and more common instead of farms.

When you have a huge land that you can farm and the other option is to build a huge apartment complex that you can rent and make 50x more money you pick the latter, hence why food shortage is not just a short term thing caused by the pandemic but a more permanent thing. Hopefully we will figure how to grow a ton of food in labs very soon so that we could end the poverty and starvation.

The only solution to that is to resume the operation of the businesses, especially the big businesses that contributes big money on tax collection of the government, and with enough funds, the government would be able to lend money to small businesses who suffered and give support to those people who are currently unemployed due to the pandemic, slowly the country will recover and also they have to ensure that they are consistent with educating the people about the corona virus and how to prevent themselves from getting infected.

We can help by religiously follow all the standard protocol they impose.


With the support of the government yes, because they can create jobs for people to work even at home only.

The Covid-19 pandemic had greatly affected the global economy. At present, the epidemic in the United States, Britain, India ... has not been controlled and there is a risk of an outbreak. The best way to stabilize the country is to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. The new economy will soon stabilize. I think the cryptocurrency market will also be affected. It takes money to invest or the market will go down.

That's the worst part, right now, we are still having a hard time to recover from this economic downfall. The continuous increase in covid-19 cases make us suffer the most as it also increase the risk of transmission of the virus. People can't go to work and buy food for them to survive, we are now undergoing a recession.

Some people are unable to spend their money just to save it for more important circumstances that's why their is no market movements.

Especially, if people wants to but their basic needs like food. I think that the only way we can stop recession is when the recovery is much more greater than the active cases. That's the time where we can recover and grow our economy again.

Since there’s still no solution of the current situation we should protect ourselves and our families at all cost.  We can help the government by following the protocol and not breaking any rules all they are doing right now is for our own safety. Bitcoin and cryptocurrency could probably help this time, by using it as payment ‘no contact, no virus’.

I think that is starting to happen everywhere. Our borders are still closed and there is no way to import any food. Right now the government has plans to give out a no-interest loans to farmers in the country so that they can start growing food, lots of it. I can’t wait to see how that goes. And I’m constantly praying for the virus to be over, it has really affected things in the way that we can’t take it.

It is very difficult to live like this. And economy of most countries keeps falling, we have no other option than to just ease the lockdown and go back to our work. Fortunately I guess the agriculture related works on my country is not getting affected hence I guess there could be less chances for food production falls below the level of scarcity. Still, the food transport might get hit worst as transport related things might get delayed or cancelled which may trigger shortage of foods even in my country.

You bring an interesting point, food production right now is not as profitable as many other business activities and obviously people are going to choose what brings them the most profits but when it comes to certain industries like food production this is counterproductive as when we need to generate more food we will be unable to do so as fast as we need it, and this could eventually create even bigger food shortages than the ones we are suffering now around the world.

What will be the solution for this?

answer: Find the cure first before the answers will be pointed because as long as this virus is around?all our effort will never stop the spread.

How can we help our government on this current circumstances?

answer: I am trying to extend my hands helping some of our communities that needs Help in my small ways.

Does bitcoin or any digital currency could help?

answer: Digital currency is only a Medium and we as users will do the action to help the situation.

All you gotta do is follow 3 guidelines, wear face mask and follow social distancing and use sanitizers and there won't be a casuality in your family if you strictly follow these rules. People tend not to follow all these rules outside of their private space and Sir to which they also get infected of this deadly virus. I have been following these rules and also going out on a daily basis to my work place and till now I am save even though the cases in my city are constantly rising.

The cases are getting serious in developing countries, and they can't handle it, and shutting down the economy for people to stay indoors is not an option. Imagine when a developing country is on lockdown, it's going to be really difficult for people to feed. And their governments are not ready to render any kind of support; they are only interested in what they are gaining from politics.

Only the rich will be able to survive a situation like that, where there are no jobs and no means for income. Even at these difficult times, some of the rich guys are still cashing in some big money.

For many people, especially in poor and conflict countries, the risk of dying from hunger is even more threatening than coronavirus. This is where the need for the agricultural sector to sustain food availability in the future. Many countries may have good reserves now, but if the supply chain stops and seeds, fertilizers, and others do not reach farmers or farmers cannot go to the fields, then maybe next year, the country will really lack food, and must prepare strategies to avoid this.

As a result of the pandemic, in the long run, the world will need far more resources to fight hunger, poverty, and low education. In various parts of the world, the most vulnerable people have lost the opportunity to earn income, and day laborers are no longer able to work because of the imposition of restrictions and locking due to this outbreak.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/covid-19-global-food-insecurity/

If our efforts will never stop the spread how come that there are country that already defeated the virus? Not totally defeated but they have been reached the 0 case of covid-19, just for an example the New Zealand and Turkmenistan? Even though we haven't found the vaccine yet, I guess the solution for now is cooperation with the government.

Just follow their orders, our government don't want us to be at risk so they are setting the guidelines for every community. Well for some people that has more than enough they can help other less fortunate people during this time.

It can but it is quite impossible for now, if we are talking about bitcoin being a currency today there is a small chance of it being used these days.

Following the order of the government to lessen the active cases in your country. But if your government isn't capable on handling such pandemic situations then following them will be useless 'cause it'll lead all of you in more suffering. I have noticed that there are countries like Vietnam and Taiwan who handled the situation outstandingly because their government is very competent.

I guess this would help people like us to earn profit through investment but it's very risky.
Digital currency could also help by the implementation of a project that could help our front-liners who keeps looking for the vaccine.

Its sad but this is indeed the truth which is really happening nowadays specially into this pandemic situation.We do saw that people are just too hardheaded on following quarantine rules but we can
understand that this is just because that they do need to work to feed up themselves or their family and if they do just decide to stay up into their own home then they wont really die on covid
but they would die in starvation.We have seen the effects when it comes to economic state, this doesnt only affect 1st world countries but also in developing ones so badly.
Shortage would really be there when this situation do last even more longer.

That's why its very frustrating, I'm following all the rules and yet the cases are still not yet flattening in my country. Contact racing is just so slow in my country, we still don't have testing available for everyone. So we can't really know if someone has the virus whenever we go out for the essential needs. Almost everyone are following the protocol, some may not, but I just wish the government hears the plight of the people. Accept the criticism to better their services. We wanted to cooperate with them, I just hope they wanted to cooperate with us too. We both want to flatten the curve.

The shortage on goods and food production is really common and is happening in the whole world right now specially for those countries that have the highest cases of covid-19 because the economy is down due to the reason that people tend to stay indoors to prevent the spread of virus and possibility of acquiring the infectious disease.

What I can think to be a solution for this is having a new normal mode of re-opening of the economy in which my country is currently doing wherein factories and other related establishments that are categorized to be working on necessities are now operating but just in a 30-50% maximum capacity just to maintain social distancing and execution of precautionary measures to somehow make the economy recover on a slow process.

I think digital currencies like Bitcoin has nothing to do to directly resolve this problem since it is not just a matter of finance. The main problem is the production which leads to the lacking or resources so the solution must be a direct action to resolve it. Maybe digital currencies can help in a sense of funding the projects to make the economy live once again. But all in all, it is a matter of action using manpower will resolve this problem.

Yes we follow the rules but there are others who are hard headed still downplaying the current pandemic they always think that they are ok even if they will get infected they are selfish for this thinking's. Hopefully everyone will cooperate so that the government can successfully flattened the curve since if this will still uncontrolled maybe in next year we will face a food shortage due to the economic failure or we can't buy it since majority of the people right now is jobless.

How can we help government/ Seriously you want to help government when people are in danger.

It should be how government should help the people right now?

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Due to covid 19 people lost their jobs and many people are suffering from starving but what governments are doing, fighting for borders, Space programs, trade wars, blah....

We can help the government by following their implemented rules to prevent the transfer of virus. In terms of our foods and other necessities , we can't rely on the relief assistance from the government ,we need to become strategic on how to survive from this worst situation due to covid-19.

helping does not have to be big things even small things sometimes very difficult to do. For example, we help the government: following the government's advice in this condition is very helpful to reduce the spread of ovid-19. there are many who are negligent in not following the government's advice.do everything you can to help the government?

That's the sad reality now. We are like facing an invisible giant monster in front of us. Seems like our freedom in all aspects had been taken away. No matter how industrious and patient we are, we can't control the losses in all forms. Its really hard to see those starving people and the Government especially in countries with only limited resources, who cannot provide everything to people...and the worst, because of too much stress and depression, domestic violence arises anywhere in the world.
I guess, the only solution is to follow all the Government's Rules and Safety Protocol in order to survive, and we just need to think some alternative resources while staying at home.
Working in Cryptoworld is fine, and virtual coins or Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency can help us in some online payment transactions, in some selected stores who accept it directly...its useful now to avoid the contact of virus. But, bear in mind that it can only give a little help and couldn't help us in all ways possible. We still need to think of something/ other resources that we can rely on as this pandemic continues.

No, Bitcoin alone cannot contribute to the solution of this situation because Bitcoin is not a centrally cryptocurrency, so it does not have the capacity to produce solutions for such problems. To think about an alternative project, it is very unlikely that this problem can be solved with a project. With a project that will focus only on this problem, donations can be collected from people, or a fund of funds can be created to provide solutions to this problem through similar activities. I believe that only alternative projects or alternative cryptocurrencies can be solved this way.

In our country the number of covid cases keep on increasing everyday but the government decide to implement  a new normal rules on which people can go back to work now and some business establishment are also open their doors and the transportation are also back operation. The government implement this new normal in order to help economy not to collapse totally and because they can't afford now to supply the needs of the people ,there is already a shortage of budget for relief goods to be distribute specially to the poorest of the poor.

We can help our government if we obey the rules they implemented and not become stubborn.  Bitcoin or any digital currency could help for the financial aids for the government if there is someone with a good heart to donate bitcoins but if you say bitcoin alone,it can't help.

Bitcoin or digital currency can not at all help this. I don't know why some people think of it as a magic portion which can treat any problem but this isn't truth. Economic disparity among people would still exist post adoption of cryptocurrency. Governments are already helping in such times by providing  free food and moratorium for loans etc. other than that only we as humans can help each other there is nothing better than that.

Like to say the same thing on why there are discussions that crypto would help out this current crisis yet we know that this do particularly talks about transaction  accessibility and this is indeed no some sort of
magic that will solve out something.

We would still stick out to the reality that these problems cant really be resolved out and theres no other way as long this pandemic will continue to last up for more months or even years.

Decline cant really be stopped since lots of industries had been mainly affect by this.

-The problem on the shortage of food, finances and transportation can only be solved by the government. They should provide the basic needs for their citizen the same as other countries did.
-we can help the government as we follow their orders, by that, we can at least avoid getting infected and being a problem to the government.
-no, this is a pandemic, not anyone, not a thing or even crypto can help us in this kind of situation.

Nope your wrong,because this fight is not for the government alone instead we all have part on this,because if we will
 only give the problem to the government without us doing anything to help?then expect our country will die soon.

We as Human must extend our keeping meaning let us not spend too much for now instead let us stay tighten our belt
 so the government can extend the help to many people because this is not permanent problem with us helpng hand
 surely pandemic will be nothing.

But that's not what is happening in our country right now, the government here is very corrupt than you can imagine.

Our country is in a huge debt, due to the irresponsible allocation of the Covid-19 budget here in our country. Authorities are also not following the rules and regulations amidst this pandemic, they are violating it and still they are not getting punished by the law. Life is so unfair because most of the people who are struggling hard are those poor people who don't have a budget to survive this pandemic.

Hopefully, there is a responsible and compassionate government that will handle us during this pandemic. We are still looking and waiting for a support so that they can lessen that hardships of the people.

-maybe the hope that all people with this pandemic disaster overwhelm all the needs of the community are met.we do not know the contents of the government's thoughts that are burdened alone. in terms of current needs and the country's economy there is no severe crisis going forward.lack of food had always been before this disaster from several countries. all governments are being burdened by this pandemic is very sad..?

Actually the best solution is that we follow the pandemic prevention health protocol rules, such as always wearing a mask when leaving the house,
diligently washing hands, keeping distance with others, and using digital transactions for payments. It also helps the government,so that the corona
virus can stop spreading. Then related Bitcoin and digital currency is very helpful in the current situation, with transactions using Bitcoin does not
need physical contact. This can help prevent the spread of the corona virus, with Bitcoin as well as we can make money. So we can buy food and
daily necessities.

The volatility result of covid 19 cases including the unexpected lockdown is our primary responsible of food shortages not only that the improper delivery of goods aside from delay it is prohibited.So it's hard to buy something because the stock market is almost empty.

It's not us who are the problem, maybe the government is just so slow to implement mass testing? Everyone is cooperating but some are really affected by this pandemic because they are not like us who can manage to live even there's a lockdown for how many weeks. So we can't blame them if they need to work just to survive this current health crisis we are facing. Here in our country, we already cooperated in the recent ECQ or Enhanced community quarantine but the effort of staying at home for how many months became useless. There are too many risky actions from them, so do you think that people are really the ones who are in fault? Incompetence = can't flatten the curve.

Actually, new normal can be an effective way to restore the order of life with new habits that can minimize the spread of Covid-19. Public awareness to support government programs against this pandemic must be absolutely maximal, must comply with protocols according to established rules. If anyone does not care, then it will only make the wave of spread even greater. We all need to work well together, don't make this situation more difficult.

Yes, almost all countries experience a pandemic because the government is very slow to deal with it, they must realize that the pandemic really affects the economy and food needed in everyday life.
and besides that a pandemic can endanger many people without knowing anyone and make it difficult for everyone to work and earn a living to survive, even though the government provides assistance but is uneven and not on target because there are still many people who really need it do not get their rights.

Even if there is food, people won’t still be able to buy food because there is lack finance. It’s when you have money that you will be able to afford the necessary things. Coronavirus has caused a lockdown and lockdown is causing lack of jobs and affecting the economy badly.

Some countries are trying to stop the lockdown and look for other means as to not kill their economy. But when you’re trying to ease the lockdown, cases starts getting worse and increasing, it’s really annoying. Seriously, I don’t know what’s next, but we still have to face it.

I'm not sure what are other bad consequence of ongoing pandemic we are going to face in coming months. It is really getting worst in my country regardless of some countries are lifting lockdown restrictions which lets their people get back into work. My country is also working on lifting out restrictions but job opportunities are not same lie what we had by of January/February time of this year. I guess we may need to face another worse situation than this, only after that some recovery might be happening.

Same here :(. Our government made a crucial step like what you've said but it is not going well. Yeah the economy is recovering a little bit now but this is in exchange for larger covid 19 cases. *sigh I'm already tired of this situation.
Pestilence, Death and Famine are occurring now, there is only one remaining and I'm scared because there's a tendency for it to happen *knock on the wood.

Since the government is having also having a hard time finding a solution we can help by just following the protocols to keep ourselves from getting the virus.

It is good that we can share and give help to other people so in a way you are lessening the burden being carried by the people. This is the time that we should not stop getting normal jobs but trying different ways to earn and taking advantage of the available technologies you can use, for example taking advantage of the internet to earn or maybe help in your job.



No, it can't.

It is not someone that could donate or give help to people. Despite people having profited from it, I don't think it is mainly because of cryptocurrencies or maybe Bitcoin itself since those people are the ones responsible for getting their profits and not directly Bitcoin.

We all should understand that there is not other way around this situation, but work.
We need food so some people got to make food for others. They will get money for their work and they will want to for instance watch a movie or buy new shoes - movie theater/shoe shop will open to get profit and buy food for themselves.
At the end of the day people will risk their health over food

The main solution to solve the problem on the shortage of food and economic declination is of course to have first the vaccine. Why? So that we can freely go outside that is no need to worry about getting infected on which we can do the maximum capacity of work force to work on business establishments, factories and other work offices that are concerned or mainly focuses on food production and other necessities because at this current "new normal" set up, even the establishments are open, still it is just on a 30-50% working capacity although it will somehow help the opening of the world's economy, still it will be on a long process but if the vaccine would be available, then we can fastly recover from the crisis brought by this pandemic.

I cannot see what Bitcoin can directly do on this matter because what we need is literally work force to open up the world's economy. But maybe it can somehow help on providing financial assistance but in need to be converted into fiat right after to support projects concern on economic recovery.

I agree, the government is having a hard time making a solution for this pandemic, the only thing we can do is to follow their safety protocol or if we can help to give at least minimal support to other people in terms of food and water.
That's true, bitcoin can't do anything with the problem we have with the pandemic. It is not always the answer and will never be the answer.

I think it depends on what help you are asking, btc won't do much in the case of stopping the spread of the virus cause majority of the stores doesn't accept it as a payment, fiat online payment is the one being used by the people now. However,  btc will sure help other people who are into btc before the lockdown, some may lose their jobs and btc is all they have for now, so its really a help for them. It may not be a solution for the problems we faced now but its something that helps other people survive this pandemic.

 

We can plant our own vegetables and fruits in our backyard. With that we do not have to buy it in the market and also, it will be safer for us given that it does not came from other places that may have cases of covid19. As for those who do not have work, we can look for online jobs or anything online that can be a source of extra income. We can also start investing if we have extra money in us, with this we can make profit and atleast earn even just a little.

There’s no shortage of food in the world, but its distribution is the problem. The whole problem is getting it to people, or the people’s capability to buy it. If people in certain positions are unwilling to distribute the food for free, there will be a “food shortage” for people. Today, there’s already tons of food being thrown out because there’s no one buying.

We might reach a state in the world where this will happen. If people are unwilling to help others during this time, especially when more and more jobs are going extinct, never to return again, we’ll face a famine that does not need to happen.

So let’s revert from our ways of only seeing “what I get out of it” and help others during this extreme and uncharted time. That’s the only change that needs to happen in the world today

I've also done research on what countries that has low counts of COVID-19 cases and didn't expect those countries managed to prevent the increase of cases. Sometimes I'm thinking to live in their country because it's very peaceful and has a very competent government to handle such a pandemic. The number one affected of the government's incompetency is the people who still hope for them to manage the health crisis. It's kinda funny that some of the politicians grab this as an opportunity to steal money from the people. They provided assistance to us but it's not enough and still lacks, some of the funds for the people went to the pocket of those in positions.

It is unlikely that Bitcoin and other decentralized cryptocurrencies can help governments in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. After all, this is just a digital cryptocurrency, a financial instrument in the hands of their holders. Cryptocurrencies, since they have their own value in relation to regular currencies, can be directed by their owners to solve any specific economic problems caused by the coronavirus.

The only thing that I can think to be the best solution for this problem is the discovery of the vaccine so that we can totally open up the economy on which business establishments and work places that focuses on food production. But since there is still no vaccine, what we can do now is to follow the "new normal" set up so that we can now somehow open up the economy that is concern on the food production so that there will be no more food shortage. But that will still undergo a process because it is just 30-50% capacity so it will still take time.

With regards to what we can help to the government, both must act as one to resolve the problem and not just rely on the government alone. Both sides must work together to resolve the problem we have right now.

With Bitcoin, I guess it cannot help to resolve the food shortage because what we need is to exert work force of man power effort to produce goods to resolve the food shortage. Bitcoin can do help on funding of projects maybe to support the food production.

The economic downturn caused by the current food shortage and epidemic can be overcome very easily by those who invest in bitcoin Bitcoin is decentralized and it is out of anyone's control In the current situation using digital currency Bitcoin will help to improve the economy. However, it will be supported by the government Then the food shortage will come down a bit Food production will increase and the problem will be solved very easily.

Food shortages and economic decline are currently experienced by many countries, not only poor countries. Many developed countries also
experienced it, because the pandemic stopped food production and food imports. Especially small companies and home industries are the
most affected. The government's solution must be to open lockdown or quarantine, and also provide financial assistance for capital. We can
help the government by complying health protocol for corona virus prevention. Bitcoin and any digital currency is quite helpful as an alternative
payment, and also helps provide income by trading.

in my opinion bitcoin helps even though many people don't fully understand cryptocurrency. what a lot of crypto communities are raising funds to help victims affected by corona, if you think bitcoin can't help people now it's not right for me. the crypto community's awareness to help ...?
and the government has certainly instructed the community to stay at home, that's for sure, all that's left is for the people to realize their awareness, for many reasons in this condition in the community...

I agree it's unlikely that bitcoin can help governments, but I'm sure it can help citizens who are looking for extra income to find freelancing and small jobs on the internet. This way these citizens will earn crypto currency on the internet and encahange it into fiat later, helping their local economies to rise again. The governments just have to let their citizens do this without difficulting the process or charging abusive taxes over their crypto earnings.

In my country there is no food shortage but if a constant increase in their prices, there are no new jobs and the transport of remittances has not yet been reactivated. We are living against the clock it seems that we have a lot of time to take advantage of and for some people the time is not enough. Of course, the pandemic is showing us an economic decline. Supermarkets are the businesses that have the priority. They open their premises every day until 12 noon.

In relation to Bitcoin, some members think that Bitcoin can help in this time of crisis and I think so. It can be very useful for charitable activities and donations because people can contribute anywhere in the world for a cause.
We should only demonstrate with our example, whether public or private, in any case, its usability.

Even though we experienced ECQ for 3 months in the city, I am lucky to say that we did not run out of food because the Government make sure that there will be no lack of foods. In the current time, still under GCQ there are transportation but I say that it is not enough.
Digital currency could help ? I am not sure if this can help the economy directly plus not everybody knows/used bitcoin. It may become source of income of some of us but not for everybody.

Right now there isn't shortage of food in our country, but soon we'll encounter the food shortage issue. The government has been providing food free of cost, and slowly people have begun to cultivate their own food understanding the prevailing situation. The economic collapse is affecting the living condition of middle class people in large scale. Bitcoin doesn't have any role to do with the recovery of the food shortage and economic collapse, because right now none has got cash to make investment.

Food shortage is something I will never understand fully. Nowadays we have enough technology that we do not even need place for putting down seeds and farm them. We could basically just grow crops in buildings as well, so if anyone is smart enough to do it, they could optimize the growth process and get +1 more crop than what an old timer farmer could do.

All we need is buildings that are farms that you can put in seeds and grow crops and take them and sell them. That way it would be basically 25% of the cost of actually farming and it would be much faster and you could simply just build 100x more food that way because there is no need for place, farmers need huge places to grow that much food whereas you just need a tall building if you want to go bigger in that situation. We should be able to grow food that would be sufficient to feed every single human.