HERE
ARE TODAY'S links to what seem the most reliably informative (and
therefore presumably useful) Internet reports on the rapidly spreading
Coronavirus epidemic:
Holed up in the US: Coronavirus shutdown threatens jobs
National and international update.
National and international update.
The Latest: IRC starts $30M campaign to aid vulnerable areas
More national and international updates.
More national and international updates.
US official on virus: 'Every chance that we could be Italy'
How many times must it be said that Neoliberalism is genocide? (Updated w/new head at old URL.)
How many times must it be said that Neoliberalism is genocide? (Updated w/new head at old URL.)
Exclusive: Coronavirus vaccine test opens with 1st doses
Nonprofit healthcare in humanitarian action. (Disclosure: my Medicare-Advantage insurance, originally through voting membership in the now-dead Group Health Cooperative, is with Kaiser, to which kudos, Big Time.)
Nonprofit healthcare in humanitarian action. (Disclosure: my Medicare-Advantage insurance, originally through voting membership in the now-dead Group Health Cooperative, is with Kaiser, to which kudos, Big Time.)
Hit by virus, US airlines seek aid far exceeding post-9/11
And we know the airlines, like the banks, will get every penny they demand, even as the rest of us are abandoned to sicken and die; such is Capitalism, the most malignant Evil our species has ever inflicted on itself.
And we know the airlines, like the banks, will get every penny they demand, even as the rest of us are abandoned to sicken and die; such is Capitalism, the most malignant Evil our species has ever inflicted on itself.
Global economic coordination not happening in virus crisis
Might our Neoliberal Masters be deliberately letting the virus run amok? (Keep this question in mind, as I am assembling the indications both pro and con and have yet to reach a conclusion.)
Might our Neoliberal Masters be deliberately letting the virus run amok? (Keep this question in mind, as I am assembling the indications both pro and con and have yet to reach a conclusion.)
Arc of Trump's coronavirus comments defies reality on ground
Trump, like his hero Adolf Hitler, lies whenever his sadistic moral imbecility so moves him.
Trump, like his hero Adolf Hitler, lies whenever his sadistic moral imbecility so moves him.
No
doubt anticipation of such a disaster spiked our Masters' skyrocketing
demands that we of the 99 Percent be forcibly disarmed and thereby
reduced to compulsory pacifism and mandatory victimhood.
Not exactly gloating, stockpiling 'preppers' have a moment
Accurate prophecy and intelligent anticipation unfortunately is too often glibly damned as "politically incorrect" folly.
Accurate prophecy and intelligent anticipation unfortunately is too often glibly damned as "politically incorrect" folly.
From other sources:
FOCUS | Naomi Klein: Coronavirus Is the Perfect Disaster for Disaster Capitalism
Why -- depressing as it may be in this most hopeless of all human times -- we must nevertheless be ever more attentive to how our Masters are trying to murder us and enslave the survivors.
Why -- depressing as it may be in this most hopeless of all human times -- we must nevertheless be ever more attentive to how our Masters are trying to murder us and enslave the survivors.
Will Washington Cause a Revolt?
How Trump is weaponizing the virus to destroy Social Security.
How Trump is weaponizing the virus to destroy Social Security.
Big Pharma’s Role: Destruction of Basic Health Care Worldwide, U.S. Sanctions Lead to Global Rise in Coronavirus
Shame on me for not spotting this report and publishing its link when it broke last week -- especially since it's a story you won't find in the WaPo anthology below.
Shame on me for not spotting this report and publishing its link when it broke last week -- especially since it's a story you won't find in the WaPo anthology below.
Coronavirus Updates from The Washington Post
Vital; as always, WaPo staffers nevertheless manages to report some -- though surely not all -- of the day's most pivotal news despite Bezos' imposition of zero-tolerance censorship,
Vital; as always, WaPo staffers nevertheless manages to report some -- though surely not all -- of the day's most pivotal news despite Bezos' imposition of zero-tolerance censorship,
Here’s what coronavirus does to the body
A frightening but vital report I should have already posted.
A frightening but vital report I should have already posted.
Why Covid-19 Is So Dangerous for Older Adults
More on how the virus kills, in somewhat less technical language.
More on how the virus kills, in somewhat less technical language.
There’s a Giant Hole in Pelosi’s Coronavirus Bill
What other ecogenicidal and/or otherwise tyrannical horrors (like universal censorship or gun confiscation) have our Masters opportunistically hidden in the Pelosi bill and in the Trump Regime's proclamation of national emergency? (We can be sure there are such outrages and atrocities -- Neoliberal shock doctrine guarantees it -- just as we can be equally certain the U.S. Mainstream Media Propaganda Machine, the world's first privately-owned, for-profit copy of Josef Goebbels' notorious Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, will seldom tell us the whole truth.)
What other ecogenicidal and/or otherwise tyrannical horrors (like universal censorship or gun confiscation) have our Masters opportunistically hidden in the Pelosi bill and in the Trump Regime's proclamation of national emergency? (We can be sure there are such outrages and atrocities -- Neoliberal shock doctrine guarantees it -- just as we can be equally certain the U.S. Mainstream Media Propaganda Machine, the world's first privately-owned, for-profit copy of Josef Goebbels' notorious Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, will seldom tell us the whole truth.)
AOC: 'Wealthy and Powerful' Getting Faster Access to Covid-19 Tests
Neoliberalism as genocide (second example of the day.)
Neoliberalism as genocide (second example of the day.)
Republicans Tried to Sneak Abortion Restrictions Into the Coronavirus Bill
Anything to reduce women back to absolute powerlessness.
Anything to reduce women back to absolute powerlessness.
The Coronavirus: A Grab Bag of Lesser-Known Facts
Details useful and therefore relevant.
Details useful and therefore relevant.
Oil price crash: 50% of US shale could go bankrupt
What obtains when a robber-baron challenges a despot who is a also skillful statesman.
What obtains when a robber-baron challenges a despot who is a also skillful statesman.
Also relevant:
Jackson Browne - "Before The Deluge"
The first time I heard this (during the back-to-the-land 1970s), I immediately, with indicative chills and raised hair, recognized it as genuine prophecy relevant to the eventually arson-censored "Glimpses of a Pale Dancer," for which see the sidebar column to the left of this page. No biblical lies and patriarchal misogyny in Mr. Browne's great ballad; just our species' most painful truth conveyed in the most ancient and traditional way: via the Muse and thence to us all through one of her blessed bards.
The first time I heard this (during the back-to-the-land 1970s), I immediately, with indicative chills and raised hair, recognized it as genuine prophecy relevant to the eventually arson-censored "Glimpses of a Pale Dancer," for which see the sidebar column to the left of this page. No biblical lies and patriarchal misogyny in Mr. Browne's great ballad; just our species' most painful truth conveyed in the most ancient and traditional way: via the Muse and thence to us all through one of her blessed bards.
Why Bears Are Coming Out of Hibernation Early
As I know from my own years of deep-country living, there are few creatures on this planet more potentially deadly -- mother bears with cubs included -- than a bear freshly aroused from hibernation.
As I know from my own years of deep-country living, there are few creatures on this planet more potentially deadly -- mother bears with cubs included -- than a bear freshly aroused from hibernation.
Added after deadline because of its relevance:
MANY OF US in the Back-to-the-Land Movement, like the Preppers who followed us, saw our efforts as vital to human survival. But too many of us -- just as Jackson Browne said -- surrendered not just our land but all our dreams when we discovered our feathers had grown too worn for stable flight.
(To read more including the sidebar material cited above, go here.)
Nine Thoughts On COVID-19 And What’s Coming
An Australian columnist whose views are similar to my own.
An Australian columnist whose views are similar to my own.
(As always, headlines are reproduced in their original up-style and down-style formats.)
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MANY OF US in the Back-to-the-Land Movement, like the Preppers who followed us, saw our efforts as vital to human survival. But too many of us -- just as Jackson Browne said -- surrendered not just our land but all our dreams when we discovered our feathers had grown too worn for stable flight.
(To read more including the sidebar material cited above, go here.)
Meanwhile stay healthy; stay alive.
LB/16 March 2020 22:00PDT
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