The Covid-19 crisis and the privatization of many healthcare systems are by no means separated entities – the one speeds up the other. While health
Source: COVID-19 and Privatization in Germany – CounterPunch.org
Category: pandemic
Pandemic genocide and eugenics: “Thinning the Herd”
One of the puzzles, at first, of the covid pandemic was the inability and reluctance of politicians to evade genocidal action. The eugenics question enters as a wild card…
Although Malthus wrote this genocidal recommendation to Britain’s royals and ruling class over 200 years ago, this idea always seems to surface whenever
Source: Stop the Elite from “Thinning the Herd” – CounterPunch.org
How Pandemic Inequality Has Killed 21,000 a Day | Portside
Oxfam International’s latest report on global inequality finds that while the 10 richest individuals in the world more than doubled their collective wealth since Covid-19 hit in 2020, the related result of this billionaire surge has been a deadlier and more prolonged pandemic for the rest of the world in which the incomes of 99 percent of humanity fell, over 160 million people were forced into poverty, and billions of the poorest were denied access to life-saving vaccines.
Source: How Pandemic Inequality Has Killed 21,000 a Day | Portside
New report says the real global COVID death totals are much higher than reported
Austerity Is Prolonging the Pandemic
The Australian government had two years to build hospitals, train health care workers, strengthen social services, and manufacture COVID tests and vaccines. They didn’t, because it would have gone against the neoliberal consensus that unites both major parties.
How Did We Go From Stimulus Checks to “Go to Work With COVID”?
Gone are the days when Democrats pushed for policies that would help people stay home during the pandemic.
Source: How Did We Go From Stimulus Checks to “Go to Work With COVID”?
160 mn. Fell into Poverty during Pandemic as 10 Wealthiest Men doubled Wealth to $1.5 Trillion (Oxfam)
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The charitable organization Oxfam reports this week that 160 million people fell into poverty during …
The real problem with Neil Gorsuch’s decision not to wear a mask.
The issue goes beyond whatever infectious particles might circulate around the bench.
Source: The real problem with Neil Gorsuch’s decision not to wear a mask.
Vaccines, RFK Jr. and The Science of Misinformation – CounterPunch.org
Are anti-vaccine propagandists really being censored? That’s the claim RFK Jr. and his raucous admirers make as they point out the lawyer-turned anti-vaccine crusader was kicked off of Instagram and has yet to appear on MSNBC or snag a seat on a late night show. But last I checked his latest anti-Fauci book has thus far sold over 500,000 copies. Censorship sells, I guess.
Source: Vaccines, RFK Jr. and The Science of Misinformation – CounterPunch.org
Americans Can Order Free Rapid Covid Tests Starting Jan. 19
New polling shows a bipartisan majority of voters support the Biden administration’s plan to ship tests to anyone who requests one.
Source: Americans Can Order Free Rapid Covid Tests Starting Jan. 19
1848+: The End(s) of History 