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News & Views | 3/28/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The EPA uses this global pandemic to create loopholes for destroying the environment. This is a schoolbook example for what we need to start looking out for."

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Certified Registered Nurses Kimberly Scheider, left, and Debbie Jessell, right, walk up to a patient's car before starting the test at Penn State Health St. Joseph where they are conducting drive through coronavirus / COVID-19 testing and have taken extra precautions regarding entry to the hospital, in Bern Township, PA Friday afternoon March 27, 2020.(Photo: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

by Julia Conley, staff writer
"We need your leadership in supporting science-based recommendations on social distancing that can slow the virus."


US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (C) and Representatives Kevin McCarthy (L) and Steny Hoyer show the bill to the press after the House passed a $2 trillion stimulus bill, on March 27, 2020, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC - The House approved by a voice vote a $2.2 trillion rescue package, the largest economic stimulus package in American history, to aid a US economy and health care system battered by the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo: Alex Edelman/AFP/Getty Images)

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The clock has already started on a fourth bill and we expect and demand that House Democrats fight to ensure that the needs of all communities are met."


Data from location accuracy company X-Mode tracking cell phones from spring breakers shows how the coronavirus could have spread from just one beach.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"First thing you should note is the importance of social distancing. The second is how much data your phone gives off."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Grocery delivery workers who are serving millions of Americans currently stuck at home due to the coronavirus pandemic are planning to walk off the job Monday, demanding that Instacart provide them with protections from the virus.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"No employee, especially those who work for one of the wealthiest corporations in the world, should be forced to work in unsafe conditions."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"What did the Senate majority fight for? One of the largest corporate bailouts, with as few strings as possible, in American history."


Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson has contracted the coronavirus, he announced Friday.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"I am now self-isolating."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is monstrous and people will die."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
With the United States now the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare workers in the U.S. are facing difficult decisions about whether life-saving measures can be taken for some of the sickest coronavirus patients.

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General view of a hospital where health officers, wearing masks and special protective suits, take care of a patient infected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) at a hospital in Tehran, Iran on March 02, 2020. (Photo: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Richard Eskow
This is not an economic policy. It is the collective punishment of civilians. It is an act of biological warfare against children, the elderly, and people of all ages.


Traders work during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 19, 2020, at Wall Street in New York City. Wall Street stocks fell again early Thursday as central banks unveiled new stimulus measures and U.S. jobless claims showed an initial hit from the slowdown generated by the coronavirus outbreak. (Photo: Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images)

by Christian Parenti, Dante Dallavalle
This time, any industry bailouts must place corporate investment under public control.


The coronavirus outbreak must be defeated in a way that moves us forward. (Image: CDC)

by Ralph Nader
Out of this crisis can come efficient historic changes for justice


Americans lack a national health care system, the country’s pockmarked with healthcare deserts, and millions of what Truman called “normally self-supporting” people are just one layoff or one virulent virus away from disaster—as we’re now seeing. (Photo: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Laura Flanders
Instead of erasing our weak parts, we’ve raced them, blaming vulnerability on the vulnerable and hoping the bridges wouldn’t break where we are.


The roadside sign outside the Home Works New and Used Store in Amity Township that reads "Closed to beat bug, reopen? Chek FB Updates" Thursday afternoon March 26, 2020. (Photo: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

by Amanda Ballantyne
Our most immediate need is to expand the small business grant program—for most small businesses, loans are not going to cut it.


Whatever mix of capitalism and socialism each American may favor as a model for the U.S. economy, very few Americans would pick this corrupt 21st-century command economy as the system they would choose to live under.(Photo: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

by Nicolas J.S. Davies
This exceptionally dysfunctional society has run smack-bang into a real force of nature, a tiny virus that can kill millions of people.

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