Women cover their heads with palmetto leaves as they rest on the road after the passage of Hurricane Dorian near High Rock in the Bahamas on September 5, 2019.Small island states will be hit by a "perfect storm" in the coming months as the Covid-19 pandemic and extreme weather conditions strike simultaneously, the head of the Commonwealth has warned.
The interaction between the pandemic, the resulting economic downturn, a slump in tourism and the rising prevalence of extreme weather events meant many Caribbean and Pacific Island nations were now facing "the perfect storm," she said. "These hurricanes aren't coming every 72 years, they're coming every other year and getting bigger and bigger," she said, recalling Tropical Storm Erika in 2015, Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017 and Cyclone Harold in 2020. The storms have caused billions of dollars in damages across multiple economies, including the U.S., in recent years.
"We then have a pandemic which has really devastated the globe," Scotland added. "Now, as a result of those two intersecting, we are facing the reality that we are likely to see an economic tsunami coming out of this."
Not buying any of the fear your selling. Wake up people. cnnlies
Govt economic puppetry is a lie. We gave them a blank checkbook, which was the entire goal of the university lies, and they proceeded to eat the economic stock seed; why there were no reserves left for the virus hiatus; just defaults and a printing press. Gold Standard, ASAP
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