These vaccines were funded by public money and are desperately needed worldwide if we are to end this pandemic.
But big pharma is paying out $26bn to shareholders, enough to vaccinate the entire population of Africa.#PeoplesVaccine https://t.co/xLc7Ov3uPf
— Global Justice Now (@GlobalJusticeUK) April 22, 2021
Tag: pandemic
Structural Racism Continues to Beset Pandemic Response
On March 29, Eric, the most prominent lay leader at my church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, perished from COVID-19. He was one of 685 people across the United States and one of 15 in Massachusetts to die from the disease that day. On April 6, Eric’s mother Elmo also died from the coronavirus, one of 907 in the US and one of 12 in Massachusetts.
Source: Structural Racism Continues to Beset Pandemic Response | Portside
Earth Abuse and the Next Pandemic
Humanity’s transgression of ecological limits has caused widespread damage, including a climate emergency, catastrophic loss of biodiversity, and extensive degradation of soils around the world. Earth abuse is also at the root of the Covid-19 pandemic and the grim likelihood that new pathogens will continue to emerge from other animal species to infect humans.
Source: Earth Abuse and the Next Pandemic – CounterPunch.org
CO2 Now at Levels Unseen in 3.6 Million Years
Despite pandemic shutdowns, the NOAA warns that carbon dioxide and methane “continued their unrelenting rise in 2020.”
Source: CO2 Now at Levels Unseen in 3.6 Million Years – In These Times
Top WHO Epidemiologist Warns Coronavirus Pandemic ‘Growing Exponentially’ Around the World
How the Pandemic spelled the end of Trickle-Down Economics: We need Wealth to Percolate up
( Otherwords.org) – The past year proves that a lot of conventional economic wisdom is neither true nor wise. For …
Source: How the Pandemic spelled the end of Trickle-Down Economics: We need Wealth to Percolate up
The Gaslighting of Science –
Final Installment of the Misinformation Trifecta
How the Pandemic Laid Bare the Cruelties of Capitalism –
One thing this pandemic has demonstrated in stark terms is class struggle. Those people deemed essential, though often applauded in public, have been treated as expendable. In truth, they were always treated this way. But this last year has made this struggle visible for anyone paying attention. The medical staff, grocery clerks, janitors, sanitation workers, More
Source: How the Pandemic Laid Bare the Cruelties of Capitalism – CounterPunch.org
Newly revealed Trump administration emails show depravity and conspiracy against the country
Despite Pandemic Shutdowns, CO2 Now at Levels Unseen in 3.6 Million Years
NOAA warned that carbon dioxide and methane “continued their unrelenting rise in 2020.”
Source: Despite Pandemic Shutdowns, CO2 Now at Levels Unseen in 3.6 Million Years | Common Dreams News