Tag: covid
The Covid Debacle Rolls On
What does China get for its heroic anti-coronavirus efforts? A constant beating in the western right-wing press. Its public health miracle is held up as having transformed the nation into a gulag (this from journalists whose U.S. “homeland” in fact features a real, live, out-and out carceral state gulag) and as proof of its hopelessly authoritarian governance. But I doubt Chinese leaders care what American free-market lunatics think. They clearly staked out their job as protecting the public health of their people, something we Americans can only dream of. Our rulers screech “get back to work! If you drop dead, them’s the breaks.” China’s response betokens far more civilization: “Don’t spread it, and get better soon.”
Medicare for All Could Have Prevented More Than 338,000 US Covid Deaths: Study
“Healthcare reform is long overdue in the U.S.,” said the lead author of a new study. “Americans are needlessly losing lives and money.”
Source: Medicare for All Could Have Prevented More Than 338,000 US Covid Deaths: Study
Patent waivers
CAPITALISM IS A DEATH CULT: WHY THE SYSTEM LETS COVID KILL
Socialist Action public forum Sunday June 5, at 1pm East Coast, 10am Pacific — “Capitalism is a Death Cult: Why the System Lets Covid Kill.” Zoom link:
Source: CAPITALISM IS A DEATH CULT: WHY THE SYSTEM LETS COVID KILL – Socialist Action
Jeffrey Sachs Lays Out Possible Lab Origin of Covid
An article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences calls for an independent investigation of information held by U.S.-based institutions that could shed light on the origins of Covid.
In a parallel universe, the pandemic would have been different
The dark spectre of the Covid pandemic has been with us for over two years now and the virus itself is always likely to be with us. Our systems and
Source: In a parallel universe, the pandemic would have been different – CounterPunch.org
1848+: The End(s) of History 