Coronavirus
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Yes, Rosa Luxemburg in some way supported the same theory, although Luxembourgists want to deny it
According to this article the UK is predicted to have the worst death toll form the virus in Europe
Donald Trump has a large investment in the pharmaceutical company which produces Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate
Wildlife and Viruses
More background reading, confirming earlier articles
This guy Donald trump is making medical recommendations without having a medical license and medical training. It is a felony in the USA
This is good on the perverse effects of this pandemic having happened under capitalism where things are produced for profit and most people’s income depends on working for wages:
Officially global confirmed cases have passed 1.5 million
https://www.dw.com/en/millions-of-coronavirus-infections-left-undetected-worldwide-study/a-53066134
However, researchers from a German university have said countries have only found on average about 6% of coronavirus infections. The real number of infected people globally may have already reached tens of millions of people. Germany was likely to have actually had 460,000 infections. Based on the same method, they calculate that the US probably had more than 10 million, Spain more than 5 million, Italy around 3 million and the UK about 2 million coronavirus infections.
Germany has identified around 15.6% of all its cases, compared to only 3.5% in Italy or 1.7% in Spain. Detection rates were thought to be even lower in the US (1.6%) and the UK (1.2%).
The risk is that the “the virus might remain undetected again for an extended period of time and a new outbreak is likely in just a matter of time,”
Get back to work and business as usual except we’ll have masks
“We know the protocols to keep people safe,” Gerald Johnson, GM’s executive vice president for global manufacturing, told Reuters
Because
GM has studied and adapted measures taken by Amazon to protect warehouse workers
Despite “positive signs” from some countries, it is too early to scale back measures aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus, the World Health Organization said.
“Now is not the time to relax measures”
https://www.france24.com/en/20200408-now-is-not-the-time-to-relax-measures-who-warns-europe
The Strategic National Stockpile is nearly out of the N95 respirators, surgical masks, face, shields, gowns and other medical supplies desperately needed to protect front-line medical workers treating coronavirus patients,
The Department of Health and Human Services told the Associated PressThe stockpile for bullets, pistols and machine guns is not out
An interesting article on the supermarket supply-chain
So supermarkets won’t run out of food very quickly. But what it doesn’t address is when people run out of money to buy the food
Scarcity is a fallacy created by capitalism. I have read some reports indicating that millions of vegetables and food supply have been thrown away by farmers
Besides milk, they are also throwing away meat, eggs, and vegetables, turning the organic food into compost or mulch, and killing animals in large quantities, it has been done before without having a world crisis. Luxury cars ( BMW, Audi, Mercedes Benz, Rolls Royce ) are being sold under the suggested retail price, and peoples who have some savings have been able to buy them for a bargaining price, you can get them for the price of a regular car. Car loans are going into default due to the fact that many peoples are behind payment for 3 and 6 months and banks are not repossessing the cars. They are still using the euphemism of recession when in reality it is a depression
It is just unfortunate for humanity that this pandemic, something like which was predicted to happen at some time, should have occurred while we still have capitalism.
This means that stopping people going to work so they self isolate means depriving them of their source of income needed in a buying and selling society to acquire what they need to live ie their wages.
Under capitalism the government has to step in to ensure that their labour power is maintained for capitalist enterprises to exploit when capital accumulation resumes but it doesn’t cover everybody and in Britain involves a cut in living standards of those affected by at least 20 percent.
If this pandemic had occurred once we had established socialism we would still have to self isolate, but this would not deprive or reduce people’s access to what they needed to live as everybody would have continued access to what they needed by virtue of being members of society.
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