Coronavirus Daily Information Update: 12 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:

Tests show new virus lives on some surfaces for up to 3 days

This vital story broke yesterday; my apology for the fact I did not find it -- because it was buried so deeply in the AP website -- until early today.
 

The new mask: Wave of global revolt replaced by virus fear

Is this perhaps the real purpose of the outbreak? Kudos to Zeina Karan and her editors for having the courage to write and disseminate this report. (See also "COVID-19: Further Evidence" below).

Fallout from coronavirus reaches from Italy to Wall Street
Updated constantly. Note how the magnitude of the international reaction suggests a crisis far greater than we are being told. 

From other sources:

COVID-19: Further Evidence that the Virus Originated in the US
Note too the analytical principle again asserted below.

Coronavirus Updates from The Washington Post

As per usual.

Trump's Oval Office Speech on the Coronavirus Makes It Clear He Still Doesn't Get How Bad This Is Going Get

Doesn't get it? Or is too afraid to tell us?

Coronavirus response: Lawmakers prefer helping workers but Trump pushes tax cuts
Neoliberals versus humans.

What You Need to Know About Medicare Coverage and the Response to Coronavirus
Useful information.

Also relevant:

America’s Water Supply Includes Unhealthy Levels of Chemicals, Pesticides and Intersexual Fish on Prozac

In such times as these, survival itself is revolutionary defiance.

 

Judge Releases Manning After Suicide Attempt, Effectively Fines Her Supporters $256,000
Self-explanatory.

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

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IF WE ARE to understand what obtains and what is being done to us, the analytical principle  I cited in  the comment thread of a report I posted last night bears constant application:

When properly analyzing the magnitude of a genuinely global threat, it’s necessary to look well beyond the associated ballyhoo; in fact the only reliable indications as to the (actual) magnitude of whatever might be afoot are what is or can be known about the form, content and magnitude of the (actual) Ruling Class reaction. And by that standard, I believe it is safe to assume the threat posed by this virus is [...] greater than the Ruling Class pronouncements are publicly acknowledging.

See also here.

May every one of us stay safe and healthy.

LB/12 March 2020 21:44PDT

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