The coronavirus is a wake-up call. In many ways we should see this as a warning. On other issues too - the environment, war and peace, food, children, poverty - our allowing market forces to take precedence over care for the common good is leaving us vulnerable to disaster.

Mar 13, 2020 · 2:48 AM UTC

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This is the canary in the coalmine.
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Spot On!
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Magical thinking is also helping to make people vulnerable. Science matters in this case.
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This is very true.
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The virus originated in a communist country that hid it for as long as they could, going as far as denying research teams from other nations entry. How else would you organize society
Replying to @marwilliamson @ninaturner
start with reminding the democrats and the republicans they could have saved lives, saved so much for this country had they passed Bernie Sanders bill submitted a year ago into the senate."Medicare for All", our health care needs would have been established, and preparations made
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Alarmists have been banging those drums for centuries. Please turn the page.
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All of those things feature massive government interventions already
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The virus is breaking down barriers & allowing the selfish pursuit of capitalism to crash into a wall of greed. Climate Change is equally existential but humans are incapable of responding to its steady threat. The virus will do. Time to care, adapt & think as one. #GreenNewDeal
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