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So much went wrong with the COVID-19 crisis response. So many decisions were made years and decades earlier that made it far worse than it should have been. This page to keep track of what went wrong so we can be sure to remember and learn from the decisions that killed so many and left so many unemployed and destitute. | So much went wrong with the COVID-19 crisis response. So many decisions were made years and decades earlier that made it far worse than it should have been. This page to keep track of what went wrong so we can be sure to remember and learn from the decisions that killed so many and left so many unemployed and destitute. | ||
= Decades of bad decisions = | = How we got here = | ||
== Decades of bad decisions == | |||
* [https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/04/hospital-closing-shortage-coronavirus Decades of Hospital Closures Led to This Disaster] | * [https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/04/hospital-closing-shortage-coronavirus Decades of Hospital Closures Led to This Disaster] | ||
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* [https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/03/socially-useless-parasite/#you-were-warned The Tea Party killed pandemic preparedness] | * [https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/03/socially-useless-parasite/#you-were-warned The Tea Party killed pandemic preparedness] | ||
= The Failed Response = | == The Failed Response == | ||
* [https://khn.org/news/trump-administration-uses-wartime-powers-to-be-first-in-line-on-medical-supplies-ppe/ Trump Administration Uses Wartime Powers To Be First In Line On Medical Supplies] | * [https://khn.org/news/trump-administration-uses-wartime-powers-to-be-first-in-line-on-medical-supplies-ppe/ Trump Administration Uses Wartime Powers To Be First In Line On Medical Supplies] | ||
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* [https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2020/04/03/826006362/food-shortages-nope-too-much-food-in-the-wrong-places Food Shortages? Nope, Too Much Food In The Wrong Places] | * [https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2020/04/03/826006362/food-shortages-nope-too-much-food-in-the-wrong-places Food Shortages? Nope, Too Much Food In The Wrong Places] | ||
== Profit Uber Alles == | |||
* [https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dm8bx/leaked-amazon-memo-details-plan-to-smear-fired-warehouse-organizer-hes-not-smart-or-articulate Leaked Amazon Memo Details Plan to Smear Fired Warehouse Organizer: ‘He’s Not Smart or Articulate’] | |||
= The Effects = | = The Effects = | ||
Revision as of 13:04, 5 April 2020
So much went wrong with the COVID-19 crisis response. So many decisions were made years and decades earlier that made it far worse than it should have been. This page to keep track of what went wrong so we can be sure to remember and learn from the decisions that killed so many and left so many unemployed and destitute.
How we got here
Decades of bad decisions
- Decades of Hospital Closures Led to This Disaster
- Doctorow on scams, CDOs and PE firms & Private equity looting public health in a pandemic
- The Tea Party killed pandemic preparedness
The Failed Response
- Trump Administration Uses Wartime Powers To Be First In Line On Medical Supplies
- Using the private market to distribute pandemic supplies
- Food Shortages? Nope, Too Much Food In The Wrong Places
Profit Uber Alles
The Effects
On People
- Rich sheltered, poor shafted amid virus
- Location Data Says It All: Staying at Home During Coronavirus Is a Luxury
- In Chicago, 70% of COVID-19 Deaths Are Black
