18 March 2020

Coronavirus Daily Information Update: 17 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 pandemic (apologetically but unavoidably tardy due to other obligations):  

From the Associated Press:


 
One mask a day for doctors in virus epicenter of Washington
Yet another of the innumerable ways Neoliberalism kills -- and who facilitated that slaughter but the very politicians we the (foolish) people elected because we believed their promises to represent us?
 
Analysis: American attitudes make virus response a hard sell
A relevant example of AP's excellence at sociological reporting -- and a story most of today's U.S. papers will ignore.


From other sources:

 
Indian Country's COVID-19 syllabus
A vital perspective too often ignored. 

FOCUS: Coronavirus Capitalism - and How to Beat It
Information our Masters are loathe to see us share.

Cuban Drug Could Save Thousands of Lives in Coronavirus Pandemic
But would our Masters allow global healing by one tiny island nation's socialist revolution and revolutionary socialist medicine? 

Germany Confirms That Trump Tried to Buy Firm Working on Coronavirus Vaccine
U.S. governance as the lowest sort of political satire -- precisely the sort of thing one might have witnessed on a street corner in Rome during the reign of some emperor who failed to opiate the masses with sufficient breads and circuses. Indeed I am shocked by its impropriety as I have never been shocked before, yet I find I am no more surprised than I would be were I to be awakened not by the news Trump had lost the election but by the far more urgent story describing how he responded by mooning the world from the White House balcony. 


Also relevant:

Covid-19: Islamic State warns members to stay out of Europe
No, this is not from satire central...nor even from the satirical sub-basement. 


Added after deadline Monday, retained because of its relevance:

Nine Thoughts On COVID-19 And What’s Coming
An Australian columnist whose views are in many ways similar to my own. 


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

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Stay healthy; stay alive.

LB/18 March 2020 01:52PDT
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