1. Crucial to understanding Trump's bungling of coronavirus is that he's been treating it as a border control problem rather than a public health problem. Wednesday's speech, with it's talk of a "foreign virus" was part of that.
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8. Mike Davis, a towering figure, has been warning for decades about the need to shore up international environmental infrastructure to ward against global pandemics. He writes: "Walls not vaccines: could there be a more evil template for the future?" http://links.org.au/mike-davis-covid-19-monster-finally-at-the-door …pic.twitter.com/Zx8VvCfV6A
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9. A Chinese foundation is offering to send half a million test kits to USA. As with all philanthropy one might question the motives (likely damage control). Still: China is using crisis to expand its profile while USA becomes more isolationisthttps://twitter.com/nothingsmonstrd/status/1238495559658475525 …
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10. Some more thoughts on why the America First response to Coronavirus is dangerous:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/republican-xenophobia-coronavirus-pandemic/ …
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The rise of The Chinese Hegemony begins
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A Chinese foundation announcing it will ship 500,000 test kits to the USA:https://twitter.com/foundation_ma/status/1238317660871393280 …
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Genuine q: what is the bungling of the Chinese govt that you’re referencing? I’m in China and tbh it seems like the response has been pretty strident here. Do you mean the initial response, or something else?
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Better than not if it saves lives!
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