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A Journal of the Plague
By: Surly1 Date: April 6, 2020, 6:13 am
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style="color:#000000;">Originally published on the </span><a
href="
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/>style="color:#000000;">Doomstead Diner</span></a><span
style="color:#000000;"><a
href="
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/></a>on April 5, 2020</span> </p> <p
style="text-align: center;">
style="color:#000000;"><strong>"The taverns are fair full of
gadabouts making merry this eve. Though I may press my face
against the window like an urchin at a confectioner’s, I
am tempted not by the sweetmeats within. A dram in exchange for
the pox is an ill bargain
indeed."</strong></span> </p> <p style="text-align:
center;">
Pepys, 1665</strong></span> </p> <hr
/> <p>
unfold is like watching the approach of a slow motion
catastrophe. We cannot run, nor hide. We can only wait. The math
is immutable, and inexorable. The confirmed infection counts and
death tolls double every three days.
Tick-tock.</span> </p> <p>
style="color:#000000;">We are told to practice "social
distancing," to wear masks, to wash our hands continuously, to
not touch our faces, and most of all to #Staythefuckhome. Most
do. Some, including notorious ignorami, assorted MAGATs, and
fundamentalist preachers whose addiction to positive cash flow
depends on filling their megachurches, do not. These people
should be treated as if they want you dead, judging from their
actions, they do.</span> </p> <p>
style="color:#000000;">On a warm spring day last weekend they
could be found packing cars going God-knows-where, on sidewalks
with kids in tow, even going house-to-house to talk to
neighbors! Amidst all the people on their bikes taking advantage
of a sweet spring day to go out and provide disease vectors for
the unsuspecting, I noted that a friend posted on Facebook that
the parking lots down at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront were
absolutely packed. Leaving the cynical person to wonder, "what
the hell is wrong with people?"
</span> </p> <p>
style="color:#000000;">We are linear thinkers; we do not do the
exponential function very well. (Part of the reason Einstein,
when asked to identify the most powerful force he had seen in a
lifetime of discovery, replied, “Compound
interest.")</span> </p> <p>
style="color:#000000;">The very next day, </span><a
href="
HTML https://www.pilotonline.com/news/health/vp-nw-coronavirus-northam-announcement-20200330-e5fij73j7rfofp5fcd7esdwjae-story.html"><span<br
/>style="color:#000000;">Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam issued a
stay-at-home order for Virginia</span></a><span
style="color:#000000;"> in an effort to further stop the spread
of the coronavirus. Better late than never.
</span> </p> <p>
style="color:#000000;">Being first to lock the state down seems
to have worked for California. I saw a clip by Gavin Newsom on
TV saying as much, that the lockdown flattened the impact.
He/they just had the good sense to employ the only weapon
available. California bought themselves time, and kept the
outbreak from swamping their health system. The less the
infection penetrates the population in advance of a vaccine, the
better.</span> </p> <p>
style="color:#000000;">My inner hunchback is waiting for karma
to arrive in Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, and the other
states that insist on staying "open for bidness" in the face of
the trump Plague. I wish I were a better person. I am
not.</span> </p> <p>
href="
HTML https://harpers.org/archive/2020/03/fun-with-problems-the-life-of-robert-stone-charles-baxter/"><span<br
/>style="color:#000000;">In a recent book review</span></a><span
style="color:#000000;">, Charles Baxter observes,
</span> </p> <blockquote>
style="color:#000000;">Mania rules in many American classics.
Like it or not, in what has been taken to be our national
literature, the notable white male characters are often in the
grip of obsession. From Captain Ahab, to Frank Norris’s
McTeague, Fitzgerald’s Gatsby, Faulkner’s Thomas
Sutpen, Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert, Philip Roth’s
Portnoy, and James McBride’s John Brown, we are in the
presence of men who want only one thing and have sold their
souls to get
it.</span>
style="color:#000000;">We are all maniacs now: maniacs to stay
alive, to remain beyond the reach of a silent killer with near
universal reach, and whose lethality will disproportionately
affect the elderly and the infirm. And while we may not sell our
souls, we have certainly turned our vigilance up to
"10."</span> </p> <hr /> <p>
style="color:#000000;">Samuel Pepys (pronounced: "Peeps"), a
capable administrator of British naval affairs and Member of
Parliament in the seventeenth century, kept a diary as a young
man. He recorded his daily life for almost ten years, and his
record is often regarded as Britain’s most celebrated
diary.</span> </p> <p>
style="color:#000000;">Historians have for years been mining
Pepys&#39; insights about details of everyday life during
the seventeenth century, as he documented the coronation of King
Charles II and the Restoration, the Anglo-Dutch war, the
</span><a href="
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague"<br
/>title="Great Plague"><span style="color:#000000;">Great
Plague</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">, and the
</span><a
href="
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London"<br
/>title="Great Fire of London"><span style="color:#000000;">Grea
t
Fire of London</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">. It is
his descriptions of the London plague years of 1655-66 that we
care about here.</span> </p> <p>
style="color:#000000;">The Great Plague of London killed between
75,000-100,000, roughly 20 per cent of the population.
Pepys&#39; diary is filled wth what might today be called,
"hot
takes:"</span> </p> <blockquote>
an
style="color:#000000;">On hearing ill rumour that Londoners may
soon be urged into their lodgings by Her Majesty’s men, I
looked upon the street to see a gaggle of striplings making fair
merry, and no doubt spreading the plague well about. Not a care
had these rogues for the health of their
elders!</span>
an
style="color:#000000;">As noted above, on a clear weekend day I
noted cars filled with people leaving the neighborhood... going
where, exactly? And beheld the sight of a neighbor working out
on another neighbor who had the good sense to hide behind a
storm door while the sputum-deliverer held forth. I swear, had
he crossed the street I&#39;d have used a rake to oblige him
to keep his
distance.</span> </p> <blockquote>
span
style="color:#000000;">Great fears of the Sickenesses here in
the City, it being said that two or three houses are already
shut up. God preserve us
all.</span>
style="color:#000000;">We are all shut up in our houses now.
Aside, that is, from a few states in the south and west who wish
themselves part of the Neo-confederacy. Persuading an entire
country to voluntarily stay at home is not easy, and </span><a
data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'41',r'608719'"
href="
HTML https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/trump-ensuring-worst-possible-outcome-coronavirus-crisis/607867/"><span<br
/>style="color:#000000;">without clear direction from an unwilli
ng
White House</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">, mayors,
governors, and business owners have rolled their
own.</span> </p> <blockquote>
style="color:#000000;">Thus this month ends, with great sadness
upon the public through the greateness of the plague, everywhere
through the Kingdom almost. Every day sadder and sadder news of
its increase. In the City died this week 7496; and all of them,
6102 of the plague. But it is feared that the true number of the
dead this week is near 10000 - partly from the poor that cannot
be taken notice of through the greatness of the number, and
partly from the Quakers and others that will not have any bell
ring for them.
plague, and as much of an Ague, by being forced to go early and
late to Woolwich, and my family to lie there
continually.</span>
;
style="color:#000000;">The death toll in the US as of this
writing is over 9100. The number of US confirmed cases is over
321,000. Look for these rates to double every three days until
the disease peaks. Soon, most everyone in the US will know
someone who has been infected. Like 9/11, the pandemic has
already imprinted itself upon our psyche as a defining
moment.</span> </p> <p>
style="color:#000000;">The pandemic has shattered the myth of
American "greatness." As the first among equals of rich, strong,
developed nations, the supremacy of American health care is held
as an article of faith. That illusion has been shattered. In
spite of months of advance warning as the virus tore through
other countries, when America was finally tested by COVID-19, it
failed.</span> </p> <p>
style="color:#000000;">Countries like South Korea, Singapore,
and Hong Kong followed the playbook: develop a test, use it to
identify the infected, isolate them, and trace those
they’ve had contact with. Wash, rinse, repeat. </span><a
data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'7',r'608719'"
href="
HTML https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-americans-are-sick-lost-february/608521/"><span<br
/>style="color:#000000;">As Alexis Madrigal and Robinson Meyer
reported</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">, the CDC
developed and distributed a faulty test in February. No one
could have imagined that as the American caseload shot into the
tens of thousands, only hundreds of people would be tested. This
created an epidemiological hole from which we have never
emerged. Lack of a reliable test deployed early enough is the
single point of failure that undermined every other
countermeasure, and that has led to the immutable, exponential
math.</span> </p> <p>
style="color:#000000;">Bet your mortgage that the impacts on
economic, social and political aspects of our lives from
coronavirus will be long lasting. And compounded, given the
chaos, corruption, and cronyism that heralded our blundered
entry into this crisis. Few have ever seen anything like this,
and only a few cranks and miscreants (aside from professional
planners) have even bothered to contemplate
it.</span> </p> <p>
style="color:#000000;">The London plague continued into
1666.</span> </p> <blockquote>
style="color:#000000;">Thanks be to God, the plague is, as I
hear, encreased but two this week; but in the country in several
places it rages mightily, and particularly in Colchester, where
it hath long been, and is believed will quite depopulate the
place.</span>
n
style="color:#000000;">Italy and Spain offer </span><a
data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'20',r'608719'"
href="
HTML https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/608113/italy-coronavirus/"><span<br
/>style="color:#000000;">grim warnings about an American
future</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">. Hospitals are
rapidly running out of room, supplies, and staff. Health-care
workers are already seeing dwindling equipment, growing waves of
patients, with doctors and nurses themselves becoming ill. And
they</span><a
href="
HTML https://www.wonkette.com/jared-kushner-mbasplains-coronavirus-to-americas-governors-guess-were-all-gonna-die"><span<br
/>style="color:#000000;"> are operating without a gaunt,
shiny-faced, porcelain-doll wannabe-Dauphin</span></a><span
style="color:#000000;"> to bollix up supplies of medical
equipment, and to <a
href="
HTML https://www.wonkette.com/jared-kushner-mbasplains-coronavirus-to-americas-governors-guess-were-all-gonna-die">MBAsplain<br
/>coronavirus to the nation&#39;s Governors.</a> Trump and
Bolton terminated the Pandemic staff and have given the
portfolio to Richie Rich for on-the-job training. God help us
all.</span> </p> <p>
style="color:#000000;">By 1667 Pepys&#39; plague had burnt
out, but still lived in recent
memory:</span> </p> <blockquote>
an
style="color:#000000;">One at the table told an odd passage in
this late plague: that at Petersfield, I think, he said, one
side of the street had every house almost infected through the
town, and the other, not one shut
up.</span>
style="color:#000000;">During a time of "social distancing," we
are reduced to staring off the porch or out the window. Like the
denizens of Plato&#39;s cave, we watch the electronic
shadows dance off the wall, while we attempt to make sense of
them. Even more difficult is imagining how we might begin to
recover from a virtual shutdown of economic life. As we try to
restart an all-but-stopped economy dependent upon an engine of
ceaseless consumption, we run the risk of renewed disease
flareups as seen in China, Singapore, and other Asian countries
that briefly seemed to have the virus under control. All it
takes is one case to reignite fresh
infections.</span> </p> <p>
style="color:#000000;">My best guess is that until a vaccine can
be produced (probably 18 months), we&#39;ll continue to play
a protracted game of whack-a-mole with the virus, stamping out
outbreaks as they occur.</span> </p> <hr
/> <p>
to the virus by some Trumpophile governors will be telling.
</span><a
href="
HTML https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/03/coronavirus-rural-south-164225"><span<br
/>style="color:#000000;">Virus hot spots in are South poised for
disproportionate suffering</span></a><span
style="color:#000000;">. With many Southern states only recently
implementing stay-at-home orders, there is a chance that a later
wave of infection could swamp local facilities. Even sparsely
populated counties could soon have more cases than their health
care systems can handle.
</span> </p> <blockquote>
style="color:#000000;">“There is no city anywhere in the
world that can withstand the outbreak that would occur if there
isn’t rigorous social distancing,” said Tom Frieden,
a former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
director.</span>
span
style="color:#000000;">In Virginia, the governor is both a
Democrat and a physician, so he imposed social distancing
earlier than some. But some children of privilege and exception
haven&#39;t taken it
seriously.</span> </p> <blockquote>
<span
style="color:#000000;">The Columbia University model also
identified the area around Hampton Roads and Newport News, Va.,
at risk of having its health infrastructure swamped. Though the
</span><a href="
HTML http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirus/"<br
/>target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;"><u>number of
cases</u></span></a><span style="color:#000000;"> in those
counties is currently low, Virginia is not expected to
experience peak conditions until late May, and has so far
received just a tiny fraction of the medical equipment requested
from the federal
government.</span>
style="color:#000000;">On Friday, state leaders confirmed that
the tidewater region has some of the highest community spread in
the state, and that it would be one of three areas designated
for a field hospital to take pressure off the local medical
system. The “alternate care” site in the Hampton
Roads Convention Center will be able to hold up to 360 acute
care beds or 580 non-acute beds, Gov. Ralph Northam
said.</span>
/> <p>
in Doom:</strong></span> </p> <p>
style="color:#000000;">Like the pandemic itself, the economic
effects are just getting started. Strap in. </span><strong><a
href="
HTML https://www.businessinsider.com/paul-krugman-says-unemployment-spikes-soar-forecast-weeks-coronavirus-layoffs-2020-4"<br
/>target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;">Nobel-winning
economist Paul Krugman sees unemployment soaring to 20% in a
matter of weeks</span></a><span
style="color:#000000;">.</span></strong> </p> <p>&#
13;
style="color:#000000;">WE&#39;RE NUMBER ONE! </span><a
href="
HTML https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-us-highest-single-day-death-toll-in-world-2020-4"<br
/>target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>The US ju
st
recorded the highest single-day death toll in the
world</strong></span></a> </p> <p>
style="color:#000000;">Just when you thought it might be safe to
peek out off your bunker... this asshole, again. </span><a
href="
HTML https://thebiznews.org/2020/03/24/robertson-blames-coronavirus-on-oral-sex-lady-chemicals/?fbclid=IwAR3evLA7NsdbBi-4l9FdbKNPq1rCmnyIOipDUNvVh6H_UjdP5fMnxh4RLgM"<br
/>target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Robertson
Blames Coronavirus On Oral Sex, ‘Lady
Chemicals’</strong></span></a> </p> <p>
<span
style="color:#000000;">Amid reports that the federal stockpile
of medical supplies is </span><a
href="
HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-protective-gear-stockpile-depleted/2020/04/01/44d6592a-741f-11ea-ae50-7148009252e3_story.html"><span<br
/>style="color:#000000;">“nearly
exhausted”</span></a><span style="color:#000000;"> and
</span><a
href="
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-ventilators-gm-ventec.html"><span<br
/>style="color:#000000;">production of new equipment is unlikely
to come soon enough</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">, it
now appears that the Trump administration may be playing
favorites, </span><a
href="
HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/governors-plead-for-medical-equipment-from-federal-stockpile-plagued-by-shortages-and-confusion/2020/03/31/18aadda0-728d-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html"><span<br
/>style="color:#000000;">distributing supplies to political
allies</span></a><span style="color:#000000;"> and </span><a
href="
HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/01/scramble-rapid-coronavirus-tests-everybody-wants/"><span<br
/>style="color:#000000;">states important for the
president’s reelection campaign</span></a><span
style="color:#000000;">. How bad will the fallout be? </span><a
href="
HTML https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/frank-rich-trumps-potemkin-recovery.html"<br
/>target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Frank Ric
h:
Trump’s Potemkin
Recovery</strong></span></a> </p> <p>
style="color:#000000;">Karma Comes to Cousinfuck Country.
</span><a
href="
HTML https://www.newsweek.com/mississippi-now-has-highest-rate-coronavirus-hospitalizations-united-states-1495753?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1585833911"<br
/>target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Mississip
pi
Now Has the Highest Rate of Coronavirus Hospitalizations in the
United
States</strong></span></a> </p> <p>
style="color:#000000;">Are there no lampposts? No nylon rope?
</span><strong><a
href="
HTML https://www.businessinsider.com/sen-loeffler-dumped-more-retail-stock-in-new-disclosures-coronavirus-2020-4"<br
/>target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;">New disclosure
reveals Sen. Kelly Loeffler and her husband dumped retail stock
and bought shares in a company that manufacturers medical
supplies.</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">
</span></strong><span style="color:#000000;">Loeffler and her
husband dumped hundreds of thousands in stocks before the market
dropped over the coronavirus
outbreak.</span> </p> <p>
href="
HTML https://www.salon.com/2020/03/12/trumps-budget-director-stands-firm-on-plan-to-cut-cdc-budget-by-15-percent/"<br
/>target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;">Trump&#39;s
budget director stands by plan to cut CDC budget by 15 percent
during the coronavirus pandemic</span></a><span
style="color:#000000;"> </span></strong><span
style="color:#000000;">The acting director of the OMB seemed
unperturbed when asked about if it was wise to cut the CDC
during a pandemic.</span> </p> <p>
style="color:#000000;">Karma, your table is ready.
</span><strong><a
href="
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/us/politics/coronavirus-liberty-university-falwell.html?fbclid=IwAR3zuAU1gqGtmRTO_96SgGK0zsxZNDWX61_TBxhrYSj2-W9FVrH5GfcQkf4"<br
/>target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;">Liberty Universit
y
Brings Back Its Students, and Coronavirus Fears,
Too</span></a></strong> </p> <p>
style="color:#000000;">Americans are doing what they do best:
buying guns</span> </p> <p>
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</p> <p>
</p> <br/><p>
found this. No interpretations, no politics. Just data,
visualized: <a href="
HTML https://covid19.healthdata.org
/"<br
/>target="_blank">
HTML https://covid19.healthdata.org
</a> </p> <p>
informed and protect your own. </p> <hr
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contributing author to Doomstead Diner. He is the author of
numerous rants, screeds and spittle-flecked invective here and
elsewhere. </em><em>He lives a quiet domestic existence in
Southeastern Virginia with his wife Contrary.</em> <em>Descended
from a long line of people to whom one could never tell
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Why COVID-19 Will Kill More People Worldwide, MORE Trump CRAP an
d Prison Hazards
By: AGelbert Date: April 6, 2020, 2:57 pm
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[center]COVID-19 Will Kill More People Worldwide Due to Water
Shortages[/center]
JOSÉ LUIS GRANADOS CEJA, TRUTHOUT
You can't wash the virus off your hands if you don't have water.
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COVID Treatment[/center]
CHRIS WALKER, TRUTHOUT
Trump refused to let Dr. Fauci speak when a reporter asked about
hydroxychloroquine at a COVID-19 briefing Sunday night.
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Hydroxychloroquine Maker[/center]
CHRIS WALKER, TRUTHOUT
Is there a financial reason why the president may be pushing an
unproven drug for coronavirus treatment?
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[center]As COVID-19 Spreads Behind Bars, Will Officials Release
Pregnant People?[/center]
VICTORIA LAW, TRUTHOUT
Some prison officials are releasing pregnant people and new
mothers early; advocates say this needs to occur nationwide.
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Corona and Our Mental Health
By: AGelbert Date: April 6, 2020, 10:58 pm
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A Journal of the Plague 👉 The Retail Apocalypse Is Accel
erating
By: AGelbert Date: April 7, 2020, 12:50 pm
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[center][color=maroon]Coronavirus has hit Wisconsin dairy farms
especially hard -- some farmers may even have to dump milk
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Agelbert NOTE: Milk dumping is now happening in Vermont. The
problem is that over 30% of dairy product sales normally is to
hospitality, fast food and chain restaurants and school
cafeterias. Most of that product demand evaporated because of
COVID-19 required social distancing.
[center][color=maroon]Coronavirus has disrupted supply chains
for nearly 75% of U.S. companies[/color]
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Apr. 7, 2020 12:47 PM ET
Summary
🚨 Store closings outnumber store openings by a wide
margin.
🚨 2020 will be a year where store closings rise well
above average levels, we could see 15,000 stores being closed
down this year across the US.
► Not all retailers are create equal. Some retailers will
struggle, others will perform well operationally.
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Are Hospitals Criminally Endangering Nurses & Doctors?
By: AGelbert Date: April 7, 2020, 10:10 pm
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[center]Are Hospitals Criminally Endangering Nurses &
Doctors?[/center]
3,265 views•Apr 6, 2020
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Thom Hartmann Program
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Doctors and nurses are dying from Corona Virus, and it could all
be prevented but for profit hospitals are not protecting their
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“The Trump/Pence response to the COVID-19 pandemic – the actions
, lies and inaction – is killing peo
By: AGelbert Date: April 7, 2020, 11:23 pm
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[center]Mr. Fish's Catch Of The Day: But I Play One On
TV[/center]
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By Refuse Fascism. Pine Hill, NJ - “The Trump/Pence response to
the COVID-19 pandemic – the actions, lies and inaction – is
killing people and threatening humanity,” said Samantha Goldman,
Refuse Fascism after helping place symbolic body bags at the
entrance to the Trump National Golf Club in Pine Hill, New
Jersey following a car caravan throughout Philadelphia demanding
Trump/Pence Out NOW! “This is an emergency. This fascist regime
poses a danger to humanity. Trump has blood on his hands.” They
said, “Most importantly, we demand the immediate removal of
Trump & Pence.” RefuseFascism.org calls for...
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The United States Is Where COVID-19 Deaths Are Being Under-repor
ted
By: AGelbert Date: April 8, 2020, 5:02 pm
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By Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance.
SNIPPET:
When the COVID-19 pandemic started, China responded quickly by
reporting the novel disease to the World Health Organization and
taking steps to identify and study the virus. Within a matter of
weeks, it was clear that the virus was a serious public health
matter. China then mobilized its resources and took an
aggressive public health approach to contain the spread and care
for those who became ill. For this, the US chastised China,
calling it "authoritarian" and "draconian," instead of learning
from the success of China. So far, China has controlled the
virus, keeping the total number of cases..
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Leading 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕&#
65039; Health Professional Associations Call for Safeguards Amid
st COVID-19 Crisis
By: AGelbert Date: April 9, 2020, 11:05 am
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As more and more reports surface of health workers being fired
or reprimanded for speaking out about unsafe conditions or using
their own personal protective equipment, medical associations
and advocates have rallied to call for their immediate
protection: this week, 10 leading U.S. health professionals
associations – representing tens of thousands of physicians,
nurses, and other health workers – joined PHR to deliver a
collective demand to protect health workers’ safety and voices
amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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[move][font=courier]Signatories as of April 6, 2020: Physicians
for Human Rights (PHR) (Convener) American Medical Students
Association (AMSA) American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA)
American Nurses Association (ANA) American Public Health
Association (APHA) Doctors for America (DFA) National Medical
Association (NMA) Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine
(SAHM) Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) Society of General
Internal Medicine (SIGM) University of Washington Housestaff
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