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The COVID Slippery Slope
Free testing? Less pollution? What’s next?!
I’m a Frontline Nurse in Arizona. We Need Masks, Not a Border Wall.
Wall construction threatens to put our rural hospital systems in the borderlands at a much higher risk.
The Real Disease Is Inequality
The forces of greed shoved working families to the edge — all it took was a virus to push them over.
A Death Sentence for Meatpackers
Meatpackers are contracting COVID-19 and dying. Trump is requiring them to work — and shielding their employers from liability.
Rural America Deserves a Real COVID-19 Response
Rural residents are more likely to be older and uninsured, while 350 rural hospitals are at risk of closing. They can’t afford neglect now.
Stop Hospitals from Hounding Poor Patients
No family should have to worry about a hospital taking them to court when their loved one is connected to a ventilator.
No Safe Distance
We’re suffering from a highly contagious virus (plus, the COVID-19 pandemic).
Most Years, the Postal Service Is a Moneymaker
Most of the agency’s deficits are phony paper losses, manufactured by Congress at the behest of corporate privatizers.
Quarantined With No Medicine
I used to have a prescription for medical cannabis to treat migraines, but now I live in a prohibition state. It’s going to a long quarantine.
Undocumented Workers Need a Bailout, Too
Beyond performing essential labor, we are humans — and, in a pandemic, that should be enough to deserve help.
