Category Archives: Pandemic

Government-Funded Scientists Laid the Groundwork for Billion-Dollar Vaccines

Muxh of the initial funding for COVID-19 vaccines originally arose from federally-funded research. Socialize costs, privatize profits.

Nick Corbishley: Bankruptcy Looms As Cash-Starved UK Local Councils’ High-Risk Real Estate Bets Sour

UK councils were already in trouble due to austerity, inflated charges for services, and mismanagement. Covid is set to generate bankruptcies

COVID-19 Compounding Inequalities

The COVID-19 crisis may worsen inequality and push more than 70 million people into extreme poverty, according to the United Nations.

Waste Watch: Carbon Emissions to Increase in the UK from Waste Disposal; Yet Another Reason We Need To Cease Making So Much Plastic

Absent immediate and drastic action to limit plastics use, global emissions will increase as incineration is used for waste disposal.

How Biden Can Protect Workers on Day 1

By using the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Biden could improve worker safety during the pandemic without Congress’s help.

Ticketmaster’s Reckless, Privacy-Shredding Covid Plan to Get You in Their Seats

Ticketmaster wants to use technology to make events safer. Too bad its ideas are intrusive and medically questionable.

Tapped-Out Tenants Take Charge as Landlords Pursue End Runs Around Eviction Moratorium

Tenants face harassment and lockouts to pressure them to leave their homes — but renters are fighting back.

Dealing with the Second Wave: Subsidies, Instead of Ordering Closures

Could officials use carrots rather than a stick to induce short-term closures of high risk businesses like restaurants?

Bloomberg Warns: A Covid Vaccine Could Help the Virus Spread

And just when you started to think an effective Covid vaccine would fix everything….

Matt Taibbi: A Dangerous Moment for the Democratic Party

Matt Taibbi describes why the Democrats are likely to draw all the wrong lessons from their shabby 2020 results.

The Super Cold Covid Vaccine Distribution Problem

The more you look at Pfizer’s vaccine, the more you have to think they really really needed that first mover advantage.

Quick Comments on the Biden-Harris Covid Plan: Not Much Sizzle and No Steak

The Biden transition team has abandoned most of the Biden campaign Covid promises, particuarly the ones that cost money.

Jobs Picture Emerges of Weird Recovery to Historically Awful Level

Jobs not galore. And the target keeps moving.

Michael Hudson on Financialization and Deindustrialization

Michael Hudson on how Trump’s policies have not addressed the fundamental forces that gutted industrial jobs under the both parties