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Corona Curiosities

It seems there's more that we don't know than we do know about the SARS-CoV-2 and the expression of COVID-19. There's several conspiracy theories floating around driven in part by the quarantine of healthy people and the huge role of the Fed in buying corporate debt and foreign central bank debt and artificial inflation of the stock market, all while throwing working people under the bus. It is suspicious. Let's look at some of the things we do know and speculate about the rest.

Race to the Bottom

www.minuteman.media.org

-- than it is to imagine the end of the Two-Party System.

Fredric Jameson says in a 2003 text that:

Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

Furthering the conversations gjohnsit has been writing about, Mark Blyth and Jimmy talked about what our economy is going to look like and they go into detail about rents and mortgages.

(both by way of Black Agenda Report)

‘The End of Sanders, and Maybe the Beginning of a Mass Independent Left’, Glen Ford, April 16, 2020, blackagndareport.com

“Sander’s early Return of the Prodigal Son to the bosom of the Party allows him to escape the deep critique of capitalist medicine and political-economy that would be required of a “leftish” presidential candidate as this never-in-our-lifetimes crisis unfolds.” [jump]

Preface: I'm sure I'm speaking to the choir here at C99.

Think for a moment, when our “founding father's” wrote the first constitution, only white property owners could participate (vote / run for office) in the “political” process. Chattel slavery and indentured servitude, were normal and legal in the colonies. (most anyway)

“I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.” ~ Ned Vizzini

The other day I posted an essay detailing how tens of thousands of poor people are certain to die from this extended lockdown. To my surprise, some commenters took a very calloused attitude to this news.
One commenter said "the entitled class is just going suffer through getting paid to read the net."

This will have to do:

We had three inches of snow last Sunday, and it has been cold since, and what with The Virus, there haven't been many opportunities to take photos of anything particularly interesting.

Stay well and safe.