2020-03-07: Social Media Postees

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Now an Online Action: Women Appeal to Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: Lean in to Stop the Lies
DLFUOD | indybay.org | 2020-03-07
This action is moving online! | To adapt to the call from public health officials for Bay Area gatherings to be canceled or postponed to reduce the spread of COVID-19, we are moving the Sheryl Sandberg protest online. Description below explains how to participate.
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Legal Attacks on Abortion Rights Are Also Attacks on Women's Financial Security
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-07
March is Women's History Month, and this year's celebration starts with June Medical Services v. Gee, a current Supreme Court case that poses the latest threat both to Roe v. Wade specifically and to women's health and economic security at large. This case is the most recent reminder of how precarious reproductive health and rights are and of how barriers to legal and safe abortion

The Neoliberal Plague
Rob Urie | zcomm.org | 2020-03-07
The ignorant brutality of this system appears to be on its way to getting a reality check through a tiny virus…
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Newly-elected Iranian MP dies of coronavirus – reports
rt.com | 2020-03-07
Fatemeh Rahbar, a newly-elected member of the Iranian Parliament, has died of coronavirus on Friday, according to Iran's Tasnim News Agency. | Rahbar, 56, had just won a seat in the parliament in the most recent vote in February. She tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this week and was admitted to a Tehran hospital. However, her condition quickly worsened and she went into a coma on Thursday before passing away the next day. Rahbar was the first female politician in Iran to die from coronavirus. | On Friday, Iran's Ministry of Health reported that the number of confirmed cases had jumped by 1,234 over just o…
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Leader of Italy's co-ruling Democratic Party tests positive for coronavirus
rt.com | 2020-03-07
The leader of Italy's co-ruling Democratic Party, Nicola Zingaretti, has admitted he has tested positive for coronavirus as Italy struggles to cope with the health care crisis sparked by the disease. | "The doctors have told me that I am positive for COVID-19," the politician said in a video he published in Facebook, referring to the official name of the deadly disease that originated from China. | The man, who is also the president of the central Italian province of Lazio, where Rome is located, assured his followers that he "is fine but would have to stay home" for some time. He wished "courage" to everyone…
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Italy's leader of co-ruling Democratic party tests positive to coronavirus
rt.com | 2020-03-07
The leader of Italy's co-ruling Democratic Party, Nicola Zingaretti, has admitted he had been tested positive for coronavirus as Italy struggles to cope with the health care crisis sparked by the disease. | …
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New report finds Tesla withheld workplace injury data from government
wsws.org | 2020-03-07
A key factor in the dizzying growth of Tesla's profits is management's blatant disregard for workers' safety and health.
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Coronavirus spreads to Poland, threatening to upend presidential elections
wsws.org | 2020-03-07
The conservative Rzeczpospolita has warned that "chaos in the health care system could upend Polish politics and impact the outcome of the presidential elections in May."
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As Trump Stumbles on Coronavirus, Health Experts Warn Against Border Closures
Nick Turse | zcomm.org | 2020-03-07
Once a disease has taken hold inside a country, the best options are domestic interventions by state and local public health authorities with ample support from the federal level…
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China's Offers Experience in Europe's Fight Against COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-07
At an extraordinary council on the COVID-19 epidemic held in Brussels on Friday, the European Union (EU) health ministers agreed to develop a coordinated approach to prevention and protection of people at risk, and establish coherent containment measures, including evidence-based advice concerning travel to and from risk areas. | RELATED: | Traveler Screening in US Likely Misses 2/3 Cases of COVID-19 | Prior to this meeting, epidemiologist Bruce Aylward presented the results of a…
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Coronavirus Epidemic Bolsters Case for Medicare for All and Universal Paid Sick Leave
Julia Conley, Common Dreams | indybay.org | 2020-03-07
The global coronavirus outbreak which also threatens the United States–and the widely criticized effort by the Trump administration to address it–is offering advocates of both paid sick leave and Medicare for All an opportunity to make the case that such universal social programs are not only morally right but would also serve a key public health function.
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World Health Organization warns of need for urgent response as coronavirus cases surpass 100,000
wsws.org | 2020-03-07
If the current trends continue, the total number of cases outside China will surge past the number of cases within China by the end of the month.
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The 'other' devastating epidemics coronavirus is distracting us from
Tamara Pearson | zcomm.org | 2020-03-07
Panic and fomenting fear are well-tried methods of control, distraction and of shifting popular support towards the right…
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European tourism losing ‚Ç¨1 BILLION a month as holiday makers stay home due to coronavirus
rt.com | 2020-03-07
Fears over the spread of Covid-19 are rising across Europe, threatening its tourism industry. Data shows the sector has already taken a serious hit and could be hurt even more. | According to EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton, tourism is one of the sectors likely to be hit hardest financially as the coronavirus continues to spread. The sector is already losing €1 billion ($1.11 billion) a month because of the disease, he said. | The European Travel Commission has announced that 10 percent of European GDP is derived from tourism while in some EU member states, including Spain and Italy, that f…
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European states dither on emergency response as coronavirus spreads globally
wsws.org | 2020-03-07
If illness totals in European countries continue to grow exponentially at current rates of 30 percent or more daily, it would take around one month for the disease totals in each of the larger European countries to reach into the millions.
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No need to panic: Modi urges world to embrace 'Namaste' greeting instead of handshakes to fight coronavirus
rt.com | 2020-03-07
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered his nation's traditional no-contact 'Namaste' greeting as a substitute for handshakes for everyone to adopt as the world actively seeks new ways to stem the spread of coronavirus. | The prime minister has called on India to return to its cultural roots and revive old traditions to fend off the threat of the novel coronavirus officially known as Covid-19. He also urged the world to borrow some of his nation's useful everyday practices to reduce the risk of contracting the disease that has killed some 3,000 around the globe, mostly in China, where it originated.
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Iranian lawmaker dies from coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-07
An Iranian lawmaker has died of the novel coronavirus, local media reported on Saturday.Fatemeh Rahbar, a member of the Islamic Coalition Party, had been in intensive care since Thursday, according to the semiofficial Tesnim Agency.Iranian authorities have confirmed 4,747 cases across the country

Number of coronavirus patients in Germany jumps to 684: agency
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-07
The number of coronavirus patients in Germany stood at 684 on Saturday morning, the country's public health agency, the Robet Koch Institute, said, an increase of 45 over Friday evening.The cases are concentrated in the west and south of the country, with 346 in the state of North Rhine Westphalia and over 100 each in the southern states of Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg, where the country's initial cases were registered.
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Death toll from coronavirus rises to 145 in Iran
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-07
The death toll in Iran from the coronavirus has climbed to 145, the country's Health Ministry announced on Saturday.As many as 21 more people died of the COVID-19 disease as 1,076 new cases were reported across the country in the last 24 hours, spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour told a news conference in the capital Tehran.The latest figure brought the total number of infections to 5,823, said Jahanpour.Most of the new cases, he added, were in the provinces of Tehran, Qom, Gilan, Isfahan, Alborz, Markazi, and Qazvin.Earlier on Saturday, Iranian lawmaker Fatemeh Rahbar died from the virus. Rahber, a member of the Islami…
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EU tells Italy its coronavirus spending will not hurt compliance with budget rules
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-07
The European Commission told Italy on Saturday that its planned extra spending to respond to the country's coronavirus outbreak will not be counted in considering its compliance with European Union budget rules.Italian Economy Minister Roberto Gualtieri said this week Rome would spend some 7.5 billion euros to offset the economic impact of the epidemic in Europe's worst-hit country, raising this year's budget deficit goal to 2.5% of national output from its current 2.2%."As regards the announced package of support measures, any one-off budgetary spending, incurred in relation to the response to the outbreak, woul…
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Leader of Italy's co-ruling democratic party tests positive to coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-07
The leader of Italy's co-ruling Democratic Party Nicola Zingaretti said on Saturday he had tested positive for coronavirus."I have coronavirus too", Zingaretti said in a video posted on Facebook, adding he was in self-isolation at home and that all the people he had been in contact with in the latest days were being contacted for checks. He said he was well.Italy has been the hardest hit country Europe by the epidemic, with a total of 4,636 cases and 197 deaths on Friday, and is currently reporting more deaths per day form the virus than any other country in the world.The government this week ordered the closure…
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Son of Georgia medical chief contracts coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-07
A son of a top medical official in Georgia said on Saturday he had contracted the new coronavirus after being in contact with people who travelled to Italy.Nikoloz Gamkrelidze, son of Amiran Gamkrelidze, head of the national centre on disease control in the former Soviet Union republic, wrote on his Facebook page that the test for coronavirus came back positive.Separately, Amiran Gamkrelidze said there were now 12 cases in the country – 10 linked to Italy, which has Europe's worst outbreak, with the other two linked to Iran, where more than 120 people have died.Georgia, a South Caucasus country of 3.7 million, re…
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Over 1,000 Israeli IDF Soldiers Quarantined Over Possible Coronavirus Infection
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-07
There have only been 19 cases of the coronavirus infection reported in Israel so far to the World Health Organisation, none of them fatal.
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Iran's Re-Elected Lawmaker Fatemeh Rahbar Dies From Coronavirus – Reports
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-07
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A recently re-elected member of the Iranian parliament, Fatemeh Rahbar, has died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in one of the Tehran's hospitals, the Iranian Tasnim News Agency reported on Saturday.
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US European Command Confirms First COVID-19 Case Among Personnel
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-07
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The United States European Command confirmed on Saturday the first case of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) among US troops in Europe.
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Russia Registers 4 New COVID-19 Cases
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-07
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia has four new cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in people who recently returned from Italy, the Russian coronavirus response centre said on Saturday.
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Coronavirus: Remember the "Fake" 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating the Data to Justify a Worldwide Public Health Emergency
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
A Worldwide public health emergency is unfolding, 4.9 billion doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine are envisaged by the WHO.
globalresearch.ca/the-h1n1-swine-flu-pandemic-manipulating-the-data-to-justify-a-worldwide-public-health-emergency/14901

COVID-19 "Worldwide Epidemic of Biblical Proportions"
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
This is becoming increasingly crazy. The Western media hype is intolerable with its fear-mongering. What is driving this? | In most countries, a few people or a few hundred people have been infected with this virus, and a dozen or so …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-worldwide-epidemic-biblical-proportions/5705735

A dire revelation about Joe Biden materialised the morning after Super Tuesday
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-03-06
After a very rocky start to his campaign, Joe Biden did well in the states that voted on so-called Super Tuesday. The press could hardly contain themselves, gleefully announcing Biden as the 'Joementum' front-runner in the race against Bernie Sanders to be the Democratic nominee. | But the media wasn't the only industry celebrating Biden's surge. In a revelation that surprised no-one who's been paying attention, the stock markets showed private healthcare stocks 'su…
thecanary.co/us/2020/03/06/a-dire-revelation-about-joe-biden-materialised-the-morning-after-super-tuesday/

The Neoliberal Plague
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-06
For those who aren't familiar with Albert Camus' The Plague, disparate lives are brought together during a plague that sweeps through an Algerian city. Today, by way of the emergence of a lethal and highly communicable virus (Coronavirus), we— the people of the West, have an opportunity to reconsider what we mean to one another. The existential lesson is that through dread and angst we can choose to live, with the responsibilities that the choice entails, or just fade away.
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Coronavirus Vaccine Funding Must be Conditional on Affordable Access, Say Campaigners
commondreams.org | 2020-03-06
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Are Our Prisons and Jails Ready for COVID-19?
Maria Morris | aclu.org | 2020-03-06
The | country and the world face a public health emergency in the new coronavirus | causing COVID-19. The media is filled with concerns about how we will respond. | Will we close schools? Cancel sporting events and other large gatherings? Work | from home? Avoid public transportation? | But | little has been said about one of the most vulnerable sectors of our | population: the people in our prisons and jails. Although people often think of | prisons and jails as closed environments, they are not. Medical staff, correctional | staff, and visitors come from the community into the facilities every day and | then…
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Daring to Kiss: Coronavirus and the Butterfly Effect
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-06
At some point, it seemed like a slow burner, gathering attention with each press release from the World Health Organisation. When talking about a threat, language is everything. With more cases of COVID-19 being identified, the panic that comes from paranoia, suspicion and good old distrust is beginning to thrive. The signs of this vary…
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National Nurses United survey: Hospitals, health care employers 'unprepared' for COVID-19
PAI | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-06
OAKLAND, Calif. (PAI)–The nation's hospitals and health care facilities are "unprepared" to combat and contain the spread of the coronavirus, registered nurses are telling their union, National Nurses United. In an ongoing survey of RNs–6,500 of them and counting–only 44% say their employers gave them information on how to recognize coronavirus victims, only 29% have …
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First Case of Coronavirus Reported in Colombia and Peru
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-06
The Colombian Ministry of Health reported on Friday the first case of coronavirus in the country. The patient is a 19-year-old girl who claims to have been in Italy, so it is an imported case and not native to the South American country. | RELATED: | 2,241 New Cases of COVID-19 Worldwide, Total Now 95,333 | The woman presented the characteristic symptoms and went to a private health center where tests were carried ou…
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WHO: Covid-19 Cases Likely to Reach 100,000 Over the Weekend
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-06
The World Health Organization (WHO) Friday announced that the number of people infected with the coronavirus could reach 100,000 if the current trend continues. | RELATED: | 2,241 New Cases of COVID-19 Worldwide, Total Now 95,333 | So far, 98,023 cases have been registered, 2,736 of which were confirmed in the last 24 hours, as the WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus repor…
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Government must act as charities warn of rough sleepers facing greater risk from coronavirus
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-03-06
Homelessness charities have urged the government to provide guidance on protecting "particularly vulnerable" rough sleepers from the coronavirus.Jon Sparkes, chief executive of Crisis, said people sleeping on the streets were at a higher risk "because they are more likely to have a range of existing health conditions". Moreover, they may be unable to wash their hands regularly or self-isolate if they fall ill.Healthcare charity Pathway also warned that: the spread of communicable disease can be swift for people without adequate access to hygiene facilities or a safe home.Deaths of homeless people have already rise…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/03/06/government-must-act-as-charities-warn-of-rough-sleepers-facing-greater-risk-from-coronavirus/

Palestinian Health Ministry Confirms 7 Cases of COVID19 Corona Virus
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-03-06
The Palestinian Minister of Health Mai Kayleh announced on Thursday evening that 7 Palestinian citizens have been confirmed as infected with the Corona virus. Kayleh explained, in a press conference held Thursday evening in the headquarters of the Governorate of Bethlehem, in the presence of Governor Kamel Hamid and the …
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Coronavirus update: WHO chief calls for private sector to step up, and, should you take that flight?
news.un.org | 2020-03-06
In his daily briefing to the press on Friday, World Health Organization (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned that supplies of medicine are at risk of disruption due to the epidemic, given that China – the worst hit nation so far – is a major producer of pharmaceutical ingredients.
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All the Devastating Epidemics That Coronavirus is Distracting Us From
Tamara Pearson | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-06
Almost every day the BBC's One-minute World News provides the latest death tally from coronavirus. The short news wrap-up typically covers about three news items only, meaning that for the BBC, the virus has been among the top three most important issues for the world, daily for the last two months. All the other mainstream…
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Will COVID-19 Finally Bring Down Trump's Virtual Presidency?
Daniel Warner | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-06
The "pussy grab video" didn't do it. The Stormy Daniels's revelations didn't do it. The Mueller investigation didn't do it. The impeachment trial didn't do it. The cruel handling of children and the desperate at the border didn't do it. The unrevealed tax returns didn't do it. Will Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus epidemic…
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Yellow-caking an epidemic: New York Times spreads the virus of hatred, again
K.J. Noh | mronline.org | 2020-03-06
In a repeat of the gutter journalism used to justify the 2003 Iraq War, the New York Times has had to "yellow-cake" up a foul brew of innuendo, half-truths, misrepresentations, outright lies–spiked fiercely with stereotypes, racial hatred, and red-baiting–to makes its case for a China "cover-up." | Source…
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OPEC: Negotiations to Reduce Oil Supply Fail, Oil Prices Drop
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-06
Due to the decline in global oil consumption caused by the Covid-19 epidemic, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Friday proposed to cut oil supplies by 1.5 million barrels per day until the end of 2020. This proposal, however, was not accepted due to the resistance of Russia and Kazakhstan. | RELATED: | OPEC, Allies Evaluate Oil Production Cut | This adjustment, which represents about 1.5 percent of world production, was proposed during the OPEC meeting in Vienna, Austria. | On…
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It's Medicare or Coronavirus-for-All
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | commondreams.org | 2020-03-06
The coronavirus doesn't care how wealthy you are or what political party you are in. (Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Image) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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