Coronavirus and the PTB.... economies, politics, business, et cetera...

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CommonDreams: A Lesson Coronavirus Is About to Teach the World (https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/19/lesson-coronavirus-about-teach-world)

CounterPunch: Top 10 Reasons the U.S. Government Is Blowing This (https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/19/top-10-reasons-the-u-s-government-is-blowing-this/)
(https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/19/top-10-reasons-the-u-s-government-is-blowing-this/)

CommonDreams: Coronavirus Pandemic Reveals Just How Devastating the Greed of For-Profit Insurance Industry Has Become (https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/18/coronavirus-pandemic-reveals-just-how-devastating-greed-profit-insurance-industry)


CommonDreams: GOP Senators Erupt in Laughter After Suggestion to Call Corporate Bailouts "Freedom Payments" in Closed-Door Meeting With Mnuchin (https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/19/gop-senators-erupt-laughter-after-suggestion-call-corporate-bailouts-freedom)


Counterpunch Book Review: The Fat Cats and Ronald Reagan: a Prelude to Donald Trump (https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/18/the-fat-cats-and-ronald-reagan-a-prelude-to-donald-trump/)

Globalresearch: The Coronavirus: Crown Jewel of the New World Order or Crippling Blow to Globalization? (https://www.globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-new-world-order-blow-globalization/5706729)

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additional related stories:

Why America Can't Respond to the Current Crisis
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/why-america-cant-respond-to-the-current-crisis/

Instead of a public health system, we have a private for-profit system for individuals lucky enough to afford it and a rickety social insurance system for people fortunate enough to have a full-time job.

At their best, both systems respond to the needs of individuals rather than the needs of the public as a whole. In America, the word “public” – as in public health, public education or public welfare – means a sum total of individual needs, not the common good.

NYU Preparing for Possible Use of Dorms as Field Hospitals
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/03/nyu-preparing-for-possible-use-of-dorms-as-field-hospitals.html

Banks Pressure Health Care Firms to Raise Prices on Critical Supplies for C-virus (some refuse)
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/19/coronavirus-vaccine-medical-supplies-price-gouging/?

US Senators Dump Stocks with COVID-19 “Inside Information”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-senators-dump-stocks-covid-19-inside-information/5707079

What Will the Post-COVID-19 Global Economy Look Like?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/20/what-will-the-post-covid-19-global-economy-look-like/

our societies must be immunized from the sickness of a diseased ideology that has done far more long-term damage to us than the current pandemic.

The Virus and Capitalism
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/20/the-virus-and-capitalism/

A few weeks after Event 201: Gates, Pirbright, World Economic Form, Johns Hopkins, etc: Advanced knowledge? CDC started hiring QUARANTINE program managers last November to cover quarantine centers in Texas, California, New York, Washington, Illinois, Massachusetts and more
https://www.newstarget.com/2020-03-19-cdc-was-hiring-quarantine-program-managers-november.html

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From a Quora member who supports ending the lockdown:


With focus SOLELY on C-virus testing and THE vaccine... we are blinded to many facts. Not that issue is an easy 'either-or'.

Sweden resisted a lockdown, and its capital Stockholm is expected to reach (REAL) 'herd immunity' in weeks
https://www.sott.net/article/433233-Sweden-resisted-a-lockdown-and-its-capital-Stockholm-is-expected-to-reach-herd-immunity-in-weeks

Hidden outbreaks: Amid signs the coronavirus came earlier, Americans ask: Did I already have it?
https://www.sott.net/article/433254-Hidden-outbreaks-Amid-signs-the-coronavirus-came-earlier-Americans-ask-Did-I-already-have-it

Millions infected? NY Gov. Cuomo claims antibody tests suggest Covid-19 is 'less fatal than previously thought'
https://www.sott.net/article/433123-Millions-infected-NY-Gov-Cuomo-claims-antibody-tests-suggest-Covid-19-is-less-fatal-than-previously-thought

COVID-19: Lessons from Lombardy
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/04/24/covid-19-lessons-from-lombardy/

Gates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUChdrL6Cd8&feature=youtu.be

Vaccine Experiment in UK: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52394485?fbclid=IwAR3JCa7F8dpxD83-cERHixx71IABT4iC-ontC9bFt5OMQ5QVB43sXoZJ7A0

THE Vaccine complication: Coronavirus: COVID-19 Has Mutated To At Least 30 Different Strains, Study Reveals
(https://www.ibtimes.com/coronavirus-covid-19-has-mutated-least-30-different-strains-study-reveals-2962820)