The detention in Egypt of nine doctors and paramedical personnel is only the latest attack on doctors dealing with the corona virus pandemic. The doctors were denouncing the deaths of front-line health care workers, as the country is struggling to control the pandemic and energize the economy with limited resources. The doctors were also critical More
Source: The Dangers of Persecuting Doctors – CounterPunch.org
The White House is preparing to change its messaging on the coronavirus, to tell Americans it simply has to be lived with.
“This suffering cannot be forgotten.”
Major changes in society can be accomplished by a fast-emerging, broad-based civic jolt so obvious and persuasive that it overwhelms the entrenched powers. The most urgent job is for people to organize to get Trump and Pence to step aside from their bungling, making-matters-worse mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic. The White House should let a More
Source: Trump and Pence – Step Aside for Professional Pandemic Scientists and Managers – CounterPunch.org
Instead of protecting people, Senator Mitch McConnell and Rep. Kevin McCarthy—backed by the White House—are working hard to impose corporate immunity—ensuring negligent employers can’t be held
Source: Trump and the GOP Are Sacrificing Working People for Political Gain | Common Dreams Views
CDC principal deputy director Dr. Anne Schuchat said we’re “not even beginning to be over this.”
The American economy is reopening. In Alabama, gyms are back in business. In Georgia, restaurants are seating customers again. In Texas, the bars are packed. And in Vermont, the stay-at-home order has been lifted. People are still frightened. Americans are still dying. But the next, queasy phase of the coronavirus pandemic is upon us. And it seems likely that the financial nadir, the point at which the economy stops collapsing and begins growing again, has passed.
Source: Trump’s Pandemic Failure Means A Second Great Depression Is Looming | Portside
Brazil’s government simultaneously risks triggering the next pandemic, endangers its indigenous people, and accelerates the climate crisis by scaling up deforestation of the Amazon.
Source: Pandemic 2.0: Amazon Deforestation Could Unleash A Wave Of Pandemics Sooner Than We Think
“This is the worst public health crisis we’ve faced—and it has come at a time when we have the worst government in the world.”
