Congress to Pass $17 Billion Bailout of Airlines, to Top Off Prior Bailout
Airlines are back at the trough while more and more Americans go hungry.
Read more...Category Archives: Pandemic
Intellectual Property Monopolies Block Vaccine Access
Vaccine profiteering is very much with us, even during a pandemic.
Read more...An Internal Medicine Doctor and His Peers Read the Pfizer Vaccine Study and See Red Flags [Updated]
The Pfizer vaccine study, hot off the presses in the New England Journal of Medicine, features troubling omissions and apparent obfuscation.
Read more...The Failure of the Public Health Establishment
Questioning whether the public health response to Covid is really about protecting the public.
Read more...Why Paying People To Get the Coronavirus Vaccine Won’t Work
More discussion of how to get the dogs to eat the vaccine dogfood.
Read more...Medical System Cracking: New Rochelle Nurses Strike Over Unsafe Staffing Levels; Washington State Warns of Potential for “Catastrophic Loss of Medical Care”
Medical systems are already under strain due to Covid and some nurses have had enough.
Read more...Polarized Pandemic Response and Covid-19 Connectedness Across US States
US data shows that strict responses reduce Covid outbreaks, and less stringent (Republican) states spread disease to each other.
Read more...‘95% Effective’ May Not Mean What You Think It Means
A detailed discussion of the headline “95% effective” claim for the about-to-be-released Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines.
Read more...Is It Time for a Debt Jubilee?
Steve Keen and Micheal Hudson provide a deep dive on a debt jubilee, and how it could be implemented in a Covid-afflicted economy.
Read more...Millions of Tenants ‘Headed for Absolute Disaster’ After New Year, Owing Average of Nearly $6,000 in Rent and Utilities
The clock is ticking for underwater tenants, and Congressional relief looks set to be too little, too late.
Read more...R.I.P The University, b. 1088, d. 2020, of Covid
Opportunistic university administrators seize the opportunity presented by Covid to gut academic freedom and turn faculty into employees
Read more...Demand for COVID Vaccines Expected to Get Heated — And Fast
Experts in ethics and immunization behavior say they expect attitudes toward vaccines to shift quickly from widespread hesitancy to urgent, even heated demand.
Read more...Business and Related Restrictions Appear to Curb COVID-19 Fatality Growth, But Some Do Not
An examination of particularly Covid-containment strategies in terms of cost versus effectiveness.
Read more...The Jobs Report is a Mess, December Will Be Messier
The Nov. 14 cut-off kept most of the Covid spike impact from the jobs data. And there’s underying decay due to globalization.
Read more...Women and the Middle-Aged Taking Brunt of Covid Employment Losses
While the Covid employment picture has unquestionably improved, don’t kid yourself into thinking that it is good.
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