Poor people in India live several people to a room, have to carry water home so they can't often wash their hands. A day when they stay home from work, they don't get much food. They can't do much to stop transmission of Covid-19.

Moreover, they are so much in danger of diseases that are more likely to be fatal that they can't give Covid-19 priority. The worst effect of Covid-19 might be the shortage of doctors to treat those other diseases.

The underlying cause of this situation in India is the combination of concentration of wealth and overpopulation.

The US is vulnerable to Covid-19 in the same sort of way, though not to the same degree, because of concentration of wealth and plutocratist crush-the-poor politics.

US officials are talking about sending money directly to individuals. The question is who will get them, and whether they will be enough to protect people from destitution.

Almost 1/5 of US households have someone who has already lost work.

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In 1917, the US imposed arbitrary political censorship in the name of war. It was, effectively, a war on dissent.

*From testing for coronavirus to treating the health impacts of climate change, universal healthcare and publicly owned medicine production are critical components for adapting to the coming crisis.*

The Environmental Poisoning Agency is being sued for repeatedly disregarding some of the requirements in the Toxic Substances Control Act.