Legally Armed Black Citizens Patrol White Neighborhood Where Ahmaud Arbery Was Killed NewsOne
New Orleans sanitation workers ‘are asking for basic rights that every worker deserves’ Peoples Dispatch
Indigenous Peoples
Rosebud Indian Reservation Under Lockdown as Tribe Has 14 Positive COVID-19 Cases Native News Online
Navajo Nation Update: 41 More COVID-19 Cases – Death Toll at 103 Native News Online
Citing COVID-19, Representatives Deb Haaland & Raúl Grijalva Ask Trump to Release Leonard Peltier Immediately Native News Online
Coronavirus
Coronavirus likely forced 27 million off their health insurance Axios
Warning US Could Face ‘Darkest Winter in Modern History,’ Ousted Whistleblower Demands Science-Based Pandemic Response Common Dreams
Jayapal Rips Democratic Covid-19 Bill: “Doesn’t End Mass Unemployment” or “Ensure Affordable Healthcare for Everyone” Common Dreams
The two big reasons why California is struggling to control coronavirus LATimes.
There has been a steep rise in coronavirus cases reported in Orange County following the large crowds on the beaches on April 25-26.
In the week of April 20-26, there were 438 cases in Orange County. The week after that, 669 cases were reported, and the week after that, 759 cases. Further investigation is needed to determine whether the beaches were a source of spread for an outbreak or if the increase could be explained simply by other factors, such as increased testing.
“But you know, just us looking at it, there was a big jump in Orange County that was temporally consistent with possible transmission from that crowd event,” [Dr. George Rutherford, a former epidemic intelligence service officer with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] said.
Speech droplets generated by asymptomatic carriers of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are increasingly considered to be a likely mode of disease transmission. Highly sensitive laser light scattering observations have revealed that loud speech can emit thousands of oral fluid droplets per second. In a closed, stagnant air environment, they disappear from the window of view with time constants in the range of 8 to 14 min, which corresponds to droplet nuclei of ca. 4 μm diameter, or 12- to 21-μm droplets prior to dehydration. These observations confirm that there is a substantial probability that normal speaking causes airborne virus transmission in confined environments.
Italy: We go back to work and we die
China
How The Trump Administration Inserts ‘Blame China’ Propaganda Into Main Stream Media MoA
Venezuela
Four US Warships Sailing near Venezuelan Waters
New Information: Guaido Was the ‘Commander in Chief’ of the Failed Mercenary Operation Against Venezuela Venezuelanalysis
Guaidó’s Contract on Venezuela’s President Mirrors Trump Administration Bounty Consortium News
Revealed: Secretive British unit planning for ‘reconstruction’ of Venezuela The Canary
Bolivia
Bolivian coup regime deploys military to suppress anti-government protests Peoples Dispatch
6 Months after the Civic-Military Coup in Bolivia, Evo Morales Denounces Setbacks Resumen
Resurrection Granma
Karl Marx, born May 5, 1818, has been buried so many times that his resuscitation threatens to become an everyday occurrence
New Article Published: Does socialism really lead to economic failure? The USSR and COMECON Eastern Europe before 1989 Monthly Review
Capitalist crisis
The Death of the Central Bank Myth Foreign Policy
For decades, monetary policy has been treated as technical, not political. The pandemic has ended that illusion forever.
It’s not your imagination. Grocery prices are up significantly, statistics show Morning Call
‘Our Food System Is Very Much Modeled on Plantation Economics’ FAIR
How the COVID-19 Bailout Gave Wall Street a No-Lose Casino Matt Taibbi
HEROES Act Delivers a Win to Health Insurance Industry The Intercept
Class war
Gig Workers Say Most Restaurants Have Banned Them From Using Their Bathrooms Vice
They’re Working In Healthcare During A Pandemic. They Don’t Get Health Insurance. Buzzfeed
Nonprofit Workers Turn to Unions During Pandemic Uncertainty Bloomberg Law
‘Monstrous Cruelty: As Hunger Soars, Trump USDA Resumes Effort to Take Nutrition Benefits From More Than a Million People Common Dreams
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