Portside

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.

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.

We need to begin to investigate how to convert both the military and health industrial complexes to the urgent needs required by the Coronavirus crisis.