19 March 2020

Coronavirus Daily Information Update: 19 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: 

From the Associated Press:

Most renters will not receive protections under WH proposal
The Trump/Pence Regime again expresses its hatred and contempt of lower-income peoples.

As predicted.


California governor orders statewide stay-at-home order
The virus begins to shut down the entire nation. 


$10 toilet paper? Coronavirus gouging complaints surge in US
See also "panicked Toilet Paper Hoarders," below.

From other sources:
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), head of powerful committee, sold large amount of stocks before sharp declines in market
Additional evidence our Masters knew about the virus pandemic before it happened, which in turn lends credence to China's claim the pandemic is the result of U.S. CBR warfare. (CBR = "Chemical, Biological, Radiological"; don't know if this report will remain part of WaPo's coronavirus coverage or will be quickly censored by a paywall.)
 

Rikers Island inmate has contracted coronavirus: officials
Thus all jail and prison sentences become potential death sentences.

Trump response to pandemic a failing of unimaginable proportions
Note the sixth paragraph: that Trump's hospital-ship promise is but another of his lies. Quoth the U.S. Navy: "“The Comfort and Mercy will not deploy to treat COVID patients, but will be made available to assist with treatment of other patients in coastal locations where local health professionals are necessarily focused on a large number of COVID cases,” the statement says. “Both ships are currently working to complete scheduled maintenance cycles and identify necessary medical staffing to deploy as soon as possible.” 

On the Front Lines of the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Doctor’s View
In the United States -- because of its murderous for-profit health care system -- the pandemic could become truly apocalyptic.  Elsewhere? The only good news is out of China.
 
An ‘Exceptional’ Nation Fails its People as CN’s Editor First Learned 20 Years Ago
The near-impossibility of getting timely responses from a for-profit system based on the moral imbecilic principle that healthcare must forever remain  a privilege of wealth.



Watch: Panicked toilet paper hoarders get in physical fight with another customer who wants just one pack
Predictably, Moron Nation demonstrates the core of its "exceptional" ethos: moral imbecility of Ayn-Rand/Adolf-Hitler intensity.

Also relevant:

Silent streets: Life halts, but not for all workers
Working Families brace for the worst.

Slavoj Zizek: Biggest threat Covid-19 epidemic poses is not our regression to survivalist violence, but BARBARISM with human face
Are the murderous shortages inflicted on us by Capitalist profiteering the beginning of a new Dark Age?


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

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Stay healthy; stay alive.

LB/19 March 2020 22:08PDT
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