11 March 2020

Corona Virus Daily Information Update: 11 March 2020

HERE ARE TODAY'S links to what seem the most reliably informative (and therefore presumably useful) Internet reports on the rapidly spreading Coronavirus epidemic:  

From the Associated Press:
WHO declares virus crisis a pandemic, urges global fight
Best most reliable free source -- and it's updated regularly.


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 Informative discussion.

From other sources:
Coronavirus Updates from The Washington Post
Regularly updated -- and not paywalled.

Bitter truth -- and as always with this web site, truthfully told. 

The Capitalists always blame someone else for their own atrocities.

Even as he tries to convince us the world is over-reacting to the crisis.
A petition for a vital measure already enacted by San Jose, Calif. (I don't normally post petitions at Dispatches, but given the insurmountable paywalls that increasingly lock the public out of ever-more-exclusive print media, this is the only way I could find to break the story.) 

Excellent summation of the Third World plight inflicted on us by the Empire's national policy of healthcare as a privilege of wealth.

Slavoj Zizek: Global communism or the jungle law, coronavirus forces us to decide
Fiercely anti-communist RT demonstrates its genuine journalistic freedom.

Also relevant:

Cancer in US Navy Nuclear Powered Ships
How the Neoliberal government cares for its most dependent subjects.    
 

(As always, headlines are reproduced in their original up-style and down-style formats.)

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THE ONE BRIGHT spot in today's news is the lesson we might be learning about how to effectively combat global warming.

For more, including readers' comments, go here.
 
LB/11 March 2020 21:41PDT 

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