Meet the influencers making millions by dealing doubt about the coronavirus vaccines.~~ Liz Essley Whyte

https://publicintegrity.org/health/coronavirus-and-inequality/spreading-fears-cashing-in-anti-vaccine/ ~~ posted for collectivist ~~ Heather Simpson never thought to question vaccines. Her parents vaccinated her when she was a child, and she got tetanus and flu shots as an adult. But when she and her husband were thinking about starting a family, she saw an ad for the documentary series “The Truth about… Continue reading Meet the influencers making millions by dealing doubt about the coronavirus vaccines.~~ Liz Essley Whyte

Journalist: Anti-Vaccine, Anti-Mask Protesters in L.A. Attacked Me & Ripped Off My Mask

 https://www.democracynow.org/2021/8/20/reporter_recalls_how_anti_vaccine_anti ~~ posted for collectivist ~~ As U.S. COVID cases top 37 million, we look at a shocking story out of California, where one person was stabbed and two journalists were attacked Saturday while covering an anti-vaccine, anti-mask protest outside Los Angeles City Hall. The protest was attended by members of the Proud Boys and other right-wing… Continue reading Journalist: Anti-Vaccine, Anti-Mask Protesters in L.A. Attacked Me & Ripped Off My Mask

A monster pandemic

https://mronline.org/2021/08/18/a-monster-pandemic/ ~~ posted for collectivist ~~ Prof. Eileen M. Hunt is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on comparative and international political theory and the history of political thought, especially American, Enlightenment, feminist and liberal thought. She is the author, most recently, of Artificial Life After Frankenstein (2020) and Mary Shelley and… Continue reading A monster pandemic

“Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming” ~~ Max Fisher

 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/25/world/europe/disinformation-social-media.html ~~ posted for dmorista with introduction by dmorista ~~  Introduction:  by dmorista This article by Max Fisher in the New York Times discusses an important developing phenomenon. Private companies that specialize in providing “convincing”, and easily deniable, disinformation to clients. These clients include far-right wing political action groups, governments, other companies, and so on. The article… Continue reading “Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming” ~~ Max Fisher

Op-Ed: Quit Ignoring Natural COVID Immunity ~~Jeffrey Klausner, MD, MPH, and Noah Kojima, MD

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/92836 ~~ posted for a guest contributor ~~ share to facebook share to twitter share to linkedin email article share to facebook share to twitter share to linkedin email articlEpidemiologists estimate over 160 million people worldwide have recovered from COVID-19. Those who have recovered have an astonishingly low frequency of repeat infection, disease, or death. That immunity… Continue reading Op-Ed: Quit Ignoring Natural COVID Immunity ~~Jeffrey Klausner, MD, MPH, and Noah Kojima, MD

Motherhood and Labor in the Pandemic ~~ Ursula McTaggart

https://againstthecurrent.org/atc210/motherhood-and-labor-in-the-pandemic/ ~~ posted for collectivist ~~ PANDEMIC IS AN opening for revolutionary thinking. It has forced us to realize that the things we take for granted — getting up and driving in to work, sending children off to school on the bus, walking the aisles of the grocery store, or packing ourselves into crowded bleachers… Continue reading Motherhood and Labor in the Pandemic ~~ Ursula McTaggart

Restaurant Workers Say They Won’t Return to Work Without a Living Wage ~~ Saru Jayaraman

 https://truthout.org/articles/restaurant-workers-say-they-wont-return-to-work-without-a-living-wage/ ~~ posted for collectivist ~~ Deatrice Edie holds her grandson as she protests alongside employees of a McDonald’s franchise in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on May 19, 2021, to demand a $15 an hour minimum wage.On May 20, 2021, about 50 service worker leaders at One Fair Wage, an organization I lead that brings together… Continue reading Restaurant Workers Say They Won’t Return to Work Without a Living Wage ~~ Saru Jayaraman

CDC’s maskless mandate puts workers at risk

https://www.workers.org/2021/05/56453/ ~~ posted for collectivist ~~ The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recklessly capitulated to pressure from U.S. corporations in issuing their latest guidelines lifting masks requirements. They announced May 13: “Fully vaccinated people can resume activities without wearing a mask or physically distancing, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal or… Continue reading CDC’s maskless mandate puts workers at risk

Who are the 10 Biggest Pandemic Profiteers? ~~ CHUCK COLLINS

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/03/25/who-are-the-10-biggest-pandemic-profiteers/ ~~ posted for collectivist ~~ Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair One year ago, the Institute for Policy Studies published “Billionaire Bonanza 2020: Wealth  Windfalls, Tumbling Taxes and Pandemic Profiteers,”  and began tracking billionaire wealth gains as unemployment surged.  We teamed up with Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) to track the wealth growth of America’s billionaires… Continue reading Who are the 10 Biggest Pandemic Profiteers? ~~ CHUCK COLLINS

Escalating Plunder ~~ Robert Brenner

 https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii123/articles/robert-brenner-escalating-plunder ~~ posted for dmorista ~~ On 23 march 2020, the Federal Reserve made the historic announcement that, in response to the coronavirus economic crisis, it would provide loans to non-financial corporations in industry and services for the first time since the early 1930s.footnote1 A few days previously, former Fed Chairs Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen had… Continue reading Escalating Plunder ~~ Robert Brenner