in truth, the burst of infections is the price that officials are willing to pay for ensuring that corporate profits are protected.
Source: In America, Business Profits Come First Over the Pandemic – Independent Media Institute
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Pfizer’s greed is killer, say protesters
Dozens of protesters took to the streets of New York City, chanting “Pfizer’s Greed Kills,” as Pfizer and the German government refused to share COVID-19 vaccine formulas with the Global South. Pfizer has made billions in profits while the global pandemic death toll has surpassed 4 million people.
‘We can’t trust the unvaccinated’: Dr. Leana Wen on vaccine mandates and how to stop Delta
The Pandemic Alone Can’t Transform Capitalism
COVID-19 has caused unprecedented disruption to the world economy, shining a harsh light on the frailties of global capitalism. But there won’t be a progressive paradigm shift coming out of the crisis without a dramatic upsurge of collective action.
CDC Document Warns Delta Variant Is as Contagious as Chickenpox
Leaked CDC slides on delta variant got you concerned?
I find the slides insightful & largely reassuring
Bottom line
Delta variant is a problem
Vaccines prevent vast majority of infections, transmission
And nearly all hospitalizations, deaths
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We Need a Movement Against Vaccine Apartheid
Vaccine apartheid has built a giant variant factory that threatens us all — and it’s caused by private ownership of pharmaceutical production and the indifference of Western governments. We need a movement demanding an end to it.
Human Unwillingness to Surmount the Pandemic Means It’s Unlikely We Will Stop Global Warming
As I started a week’s vacation Friday evening, I happened upon a film called “Homo Sapiens” (2016) by Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter that features scenes of abandoned human-built structures around the world in the process of being reclaimed by nature. The effect being that of an eschatological science fiction scenario where our civilization has been More
More than three million people across the globe have died of Covid-19 in the roughly nine months since India and South Africa first proposed a temporary patent waiver for coronavirus vaccines, a popular measure that Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and other rich countries have blocked.
Doctors Without Borders Implores Rich Nations to Stop Stalling Patent Waiver
What’s wrong with this 🌍 map?
Wealthy countries are blocking a proposal that would allow more countries to manufacture & access #COVID19 medical tools. No one is safe until everyone is safe. World leaders must support #TRIPSWaivers now!#NoCovidMonopolies @MSF_access pic.twitter.com/xJrFhsIjCa
— Amnesty International (@amnesty) July 26, 2021
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Boris Johnson is a Comic Operate Prime Minister, Whose Antics Have Killed Tens of Thousands
Boris Johnson turns out to have privately yearned to adopt the same approach as Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro who publicly favoured allowing Covid-19 to rip through his nation. “Stop all this fussing and whining,” Bolsonaro told Brazilians, some 543,000 of whom have died in the epidemic. “How long are you going to go on crying?” More
