Epidemics

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Georgia governor Brian Kemp, one of the worst and most corrupt people in the world, is attempting to prevent municipalities in Georgia from fining people for refusing to wear masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. He is suing Atlanta over it. The question is not whether his obstructionism […]

Epidemics

Mass Graves and a Tripling of Death Rate: Is Yemen what Covid-19 ‘Herd Immunity’ looks like?

Brian Whitaker

( Al-Bab.com ) -When the coronavirus swept into the Yemeni city of Aden there was little to stand in its way. The war-torn country was already in the midst of a humanitarian crisis and this time last month people were falling ill and dying in untold numbers. Few received any medical treatment because the hospitals […]

Donald Trump

Dangerous Delusions: Top 3 Reasons Trump/ Navarro are trying to Kneecap Dr. Fauci on Coronavirus Policy

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump has sidelined Dr. Anthony Fauci again, and sent his assassin, trade adviser Peter Navarro out to attack him in USA Today. (Trump denies that he was behind the hit job, but organized crime bosses always blame their subordinates for the violence they decree.) It is said that Trump is […]

Epidemics

Thousands of Israelis Protest, furious at Netanyahu’s having Provoked 2nd Wave of Covid by Opening Schools, Businesses in May

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A few thousand demonstrators gathered in front of the home of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Balfour St. in Jerusalem on Tuesday, protesting his handling of the novel coronavirus, his handling of the economy, and his personal corruption. They called on him to resign and “to go,” recalling the […]

Epidemics

The End of Private Health Insurance? Covid Crash shows Why we Need Medicare for All

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Florida: The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic consequences have caused the greatest losses in health insurance enrollment in U.S. history: 5.4 million laid-off workers have become uninsured. However, it is important to understand that all was not well before the pandemic. Nearly 28 million people were already uninsured and tens of millions more were […]

Epidemics

America’s Plague of Inequality and Homelessness meets the Coronavirus Plague

Rajan Menon

(Tomdispatch.com ) – The novel SARS-CoV-2 has roared through the American landscape leaving physical, emotional, and economic devastation in its wake. By early July, known infections in this country exceeded three million, while deaths topped 135,000. Home to just over 4% of the global population, the United States accounts for more than a quarter of […]

Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s COVID-19 crisis has been fuelled by armed conflict

The Conversation

By Christiane Wilke and Mohd Khalid Naseemi | – The COVID-19 pandemic is revealing the inequities in access to health care around the globe. In Afghanistan, the spread of the virus has been ignited by decades of armed conflict and reconstruction efforts that have prioritized cutting public expenditures over strengthening the Afghan health-care system. Powerful […]

Donald Trump

Trump vs Fauci? Undermining Science for Cult of Personality Politics is Taking America Down

Martin Powers

The Washington Post reports that Trump team is focused on undermining Dr. Fauci’s credibility, leading me to wonder how that should even be possible? The Post took it seriously though, suggesting to me that Americans have a serious problem with authority. No, I don’t mean Americans have a problem taking orders. Countless anti-maskers are very […]

Epidemics

Covid-19 Won’t be the last Pandemic that Jumps to Humans from Animals, Unless we Take Action

John Buell

President Trump’s misinformation campaign regarding Covid–19 serves only to highlight his gross incompetence and callous disregard for human life. It also has the unfortunate consequence of obscuring some of the deeper causes of pandemics, perspectives that will require much more attention if future pandemics are to be quashed or at least mitigated. Though our most […]