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I am not an infectious diseases expert. And, unlike Peter Navarro, President Trump’s trade advisor cum political hitman, I have enough sense not to play one in the midst of the worst pandemic in over 100 years. That’s why I’m reprising this query in a spirit of consternation, not vindication. I first raised it when… Read more.
This is why Brazilians have far more to fear from Bolsonaro’s leadership than Americans do from Trump’s. Here is what I wrote about this Trumpian buffoon in “Covid-19 ‘Power Grabs’ Are Playing Out Just as I Feared … and Warned” on April 27: _________ President Bolsonaro of Brazil [is] dismissing the pandemic as ‘just a… Read more.
It’s the daily subjugation of women in all its discriminatory, violent, and deadly manifestations. Commenting on the rising number of women and children who have been killed since the start of the month, Latifa Jacobs, of One Billion Rising SA, said: ‘In South Africa, we are more at risk of being raped and killed than… Read more.
Supporters of President Donald Trump are being asked to immunize his campaign from COVID-19 liability claims if they want to attend his next campaign rally. ‘By attending the Rally, you and any guests voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19 and agree not to hold Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.; BOK Center… Read more.
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Of course, at least a hurricane is an “enemy” we can see, which fuels undying hope that we can defeat it. But, despite our best efforts against this invisible coronavirus, one gets the sense that we’re just flailing away in quicksand. Related commentaries: Hurricane Dorian… Covid-19 thread… Read more.
Which puts a lie to Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die. No? Related commentaries: covid-19… Read more.
President Trump has been yelping all over the media recently about how China hid the outbreak of what this congenital racist calls the “Wuhan virus.” Except that you’d be forgiven for dismissing his yelps as just more lies. After all, according to The Washington Post, he has told over 18,000 lies since taking his oath… Read more.
It’s an oxymoronic feature of chronically poor countries that the politicians who govern them are often their highest paid professionals. Nowhere is this more the case than in Nigeria. Public shaming forced rich corporations in America to return millions from this country’s Covid-19 Payment Protection Program. Remarkably, the same forced rich politicians in Nigeria to… Read more.
People of all stripes have been on media of all types this week marking the following Covid-19 milestone: As of Tuesday evening, there are more than 1,012,000 people in the United States who have or have had the virus, according to a tally from health officials by Johns Hopkins University. At least 58,356 people have died. A… Read more.
