Coronavirus Daily Information Update: 23 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:

Texas moves to ban most abortions due to virus outbreak

Absolutely predictable -- and the beginning of innumerable ChristoNazi atrocities to come. (See "American constitutional lawyer," below.)

Testing blunders crippled US response as coronavirus spread
Our Neoliberal masters in (premeditated) ) genocidal action.

Trump agencies push forward on rollbacks as pandemic rages

Obviously there's no stopping Neoliberal ecogenocide whether Republican or Democratic (sic).

Networks face decision: How long to stick with Trump?

Is the Mainstream Media Propaganda Machine (MMPM) finally enough embarrassed to follow the inspiring example of the Associated Press in identifying and acting against the Trump/Pence Regime's (Hitler-inspired) effluent of Big Lies?  

From other sources:

Dems block McConnell $2 trillion COVID-19 bill: ‘Slush fund for hotels, not hospitals’

At long last, (some) members of the Democratic (sic) Party begin acting as if they actually care about Working Families.

The four-star general who will command the US if coronavirus cripples the government

When, not if (and maybe already). Plus given the fact he's an Air Force Academy graduate,  he is most likely also a ChristoNazi fanatic, a probability I will research more thoroughly overnight. In any case be warned; be prepared.

Ohio Orders Halt to "Nonessential" Abortions in Preview of Battle That Could Go National
As goes ChristoNazi Texas, so -- beneath the ChristoNazi jackboot -- goes the entire (former) nation. 

Here are the six countries that will be most affected by coronavirus-induced economic chaos
The United States -- specifically because of Neoliberal de-industrialization, social-safety-net destruction and its vindictively genocidal policy of healthcare only as a privilege of wealth -- will be the hardest-hit realm on the planet. Let us all take heed accordingly.

Coronavirus live updates: United States surpasses 100 deaths in a day, and 500 total
WaPo: all the news Bezos believes we should be allowed to read. 

Also relevant:

Coronavirus Halts Street Protests, but Climate Activists Have a Plan
At least until all anti-fascist activism (whether of the Right or the Left) is outlawed, as the indications increasingly suggest it is soon likely to be.

Traffic and Pollution Plummet as U.S. Cities Shut Down for Coronavirus
Revealing data from satellites: fighting terminal climate change -- just as our Masters intend -- by societal collapse, not to mention deaths to reduce the number of "surplus" Working Families. 

From the weekend (in case you missed any of these vital reports):

I am an American constitutional lawyer – and I see our government using Covid-19 to take away our fundamental rights
See also how our Masters intend to prohibit all non-governmental Internet and email encryption and are already methodically abolishing our Second Amendment rights. 

Plus: New Orleans mayor authorizes ability to ban gun sales during coronavirus emergency if city desires

See also the reports above, especially the abortion bans.  Hence assume the worst and prepare accordingly.

Banks Pressure Health Care Firms to Raise Prices Amid Coronavirus Crisis
An especially courageous AP report exposing the bottomless malignancy of our Masters.

In Sweeping Power Grab, DOJ Seeks Ability To Detain People Indefinitely Without Trial
Again, as our Masters intend.

How Trump Follows in Hitler's Footsteps
Almost as if der Führer were one of his secret advisors. 

Virus rebels from France to Florida flout lockdown practices

Proof that Ayn Rand moral imbecility produces lemming-like (alleged) humans throughout the entire Neoliberal empire. 

Useful references (selected for their absence of snake-oil deceptions):

Loss of smell, taste, might signal pandemic virus infection

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

How to clean the bundle of germs that is your phone

Food Safety and Coronavirus: A Comprehensive Guide 

 

How to Properly Make Sanitizers from Household Ingredients

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

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MY APOLOGY FOR being (unavoidably) late again; my three co-morbidities -- congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, incipient kidney failure -- qualify me for Kaiser-Permanente home health care, for which my great thanks to the people and policies of the non-profit organization that bought the Group Health Cooperative to save it from bankruptcy and now operates the only top-rated  Medicare Advantage program in Washington state. (Five stars: the best score possible.) Alas, that good news is also bad news: I had to immediately restore my apartment to pre-inspection neatness and cleanliness and -- worse news -- now must keep it that way. Moreover it's a process that for me -- with my crippling spinal and knee injuries infinitely worsened by osteoarthritis -- is extremely painful. Therefore --  without the pain pills denied me by the government since December 2018 --  it is also extremely time consuming. And of course with the lockdown there's no way to get the help that had helped me cope with other such surprise  requirements. Thus today's preparation for tomorrow's  home-care visit took nearly 11 hours -- that was before I started working on today's belated report -- and unless my massage-machine, my heating-pad and lots of acetaminophen grant me a dispensation from such unpleasantness, the resultant back cramps will have me mostly bedridden for the next two or three days. 

And I'm made even later by the fact it takes as much as two hours to reformat from Typepad to Blogger. (For Typepad's far more complete [and infinitely more attractive] edition of Dispatches, go here.)

May all of you stay healthy and stay alive. 

LB/23 March 2020 23:44  PDT

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