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Forwarded article from Boston Globe | Mar. 27, 2020 Submitted by JoAnn Wypijewski, Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:31 PM Please send to your networks! Massachusetts disaster: The people who run jails, prisons and other locked facilities have been warned for weeks to take action. Now a coronavirus disaster is happening in Bridgewater, MA inside the […]
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By Anthony Cristofani, originally appeared in magazine “Turning the Tide” https://antiracist.org/ Anthony Cristofani, Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 8:06 AM I moved to Italy two months ago because I thought it would be a more reasonable government under which to live and work for change. After the COVID-19 outbreak friends and family started writing and calling […]
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Mike Davis Date: Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 7:11 PM Yesterday two Democratic House committee chairs, Carolyn Maloney (NY) and Gerry Connolly (VA) warned: ‘Based on a number of briefings and warnings this week about a critical fall-off in mail across the country, it has become clear that the Postal Service will not survive the summer […]
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Scientists are still determining how long the virus can survive on various types of substances and under different environmental conditions. There is some, not-yet-peer-reviewed data that the COVID-19 virus can survive in the air, but … In other words, it has not been proven that individuals become infected by way of airborne viral transmission. Link posted by […]
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Airborne transmission not yet confirmed to be sole route of COVID-19 infection Mark Kleiman, Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 11:30 PM Mike,Thank you for the close attention you are paying to all of this. I agree completely that oral-fecal transmission may turn out to be a huge danger for billions. Mi companera worked in Haiti […]
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Summary of research and medical reports about the pandemic. Part of a series of occasional updates Mike Davis Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 11:50 PM Does infection lead to immunity ? Viral immunologist Michael Diamond: “We don’t know that much about immunity to this virus.” If does produce immunity, how long does that last? According to coronavirologist […]
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Coronavirus: General Information, Guidance / Social Justice, Civil Liberties March 29, 2020
San Diego County COVID-19 Mutual Aid Support Alessandra Moctezuma, Mar 19, 2020, at 3:13 PM Here in San Diego one of my young friends has been volunteering through San Diego Mutual Aid, ***all-volunteer grassroots group operating in Kumeyaay territories**** Link:
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Coronavirus: General Information, Guidance / Social Justice, Civil Liberties March 29, 2020
THE FIGHTING IRISH: Public service from the public Mike Davis, Thursday, March 19, 2020 11:54 AM Writing in the past about earthquakes I’ve railed against California’s policy of relying totally on professional emergency services. People have been told basically ‘hoard toilet paper and wait to be dug out of the rubble.’ This is in stark contrast to […]
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The Appeal to Reason (Girard, Kansas)- allied with the Socialist Party- has some comments on advice given to the poor during the “Spanish Flu” epidemic. From Mike Davis, Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 1:42 PM
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Coronavirus: General Information, Guidance / Social Justice, Civil Liberties March 28, 2020
Another triumph of Republican ideology over global dignity. From Mike Davis, Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:33 PM: Irving Weissman, Suzi’s brother, is one of the world’s leading stem-cell researchers and a key organizer of California’s successful stem-cell initiative a decade ago.If my bombardment of commentary, local reports and background information about the pandemic is […]