Coronavirus: A Capitalist Crisis

Richard D. Wolff Dollars & Sense
The catastrophe demonstrates the results when public health is subordinate to private profit and to a governmental apparatus that adulates the superiority of private over public administration.

It Didn’t Have to Be Like This

Stephanie Luce Labor Notes
The challenge is how to build the foundation and infrastructure that can prevent the worst outcomes and better withstand the catastrophes when they come.

From Cholera to Corona: The Politics of Plagues in Zimbabwe

Simukai Chigudu Africa is a Country
A young girl practices hand washing in Zimbabwe.
Epidemics are tests of social and political systems, and Zimbabwe, with its high rate of HIV and malnutrition, is extremely vulnerable. The 2008 cholera epidemic exposed Zimbabwe’s political weaknesses; will the coronavirus do the same in 2020?

California's Homeless Census: Already Troubled, Now Near Impossible

Vivian Ho The Guardian
A homeless camp in Bakersfield, California.
Even before the coronavirus prompted shelter-in-place orders and the suspension of 2020 census field operations, census staffers said plans to count the homeless were muddled and deficient. The Trump Administration doesn’t want to count everyone.

We Were Warned Again and Again – We Did Nothing

Nicoletta Dentico il manifesto
The international community—which never has any problem committing great resources in the pursuit of war —has never done anything to prepare for the possibility of pandemics. Nothing at all.

Friday Nite Videos | March 27, 2020

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Trump Wants to Reopen America | Seth Meyers. Beatles Corvid19, I Gotta Wash My Hands! The Plot Against America | HBO 2020. Bernie Sanders Confronts GOP Senators. Naomi Klein | Coronavirus Capitalism.

Trump Wants to Reopen America | Seth Meyers

Seth takes a closer look at the rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak and the president and some his allies saying we should care more about the stock market than saving lives

The Plot Against America | HBO 2020

From creators David Simon and Ed Burns comes The Plot Against America, an alternate American history story of the country’s turn to fascism told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey. Starring Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector, Winona Ryder, and John Turturro, the limited series premieres on March 16th at 9PM. #HBO #ThePlotAgainstAmericaHBO