Italy has announce 378 new deaths in one day, and several people from the USA are claiming it’s due to their “inferior healthcare system”. Italy’s healthcare system is ranked 2nd in the world. The United States’ healthcare system is 37th. Please don’t underestimate a pandemic.

"The only way to prevent this is social distancing today. Not tomorrow. Today. That means keeping as many people home as possible, starting now." #Coronavirus medium.com/@tomaspueyo/co…

Feels like this contains some grim truths

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Life is full of unexpected struggles: People get hurt. People get sick. People get laid off. That's unavoidable What often comes next: Debt and bankrutcy Homelessness Starvation Poverty That's entirely avoidable. Our government shouldn't abandon people to the whims of fate.

State and corporate news systems: 1. ignore the Ecological Catastrophe 2. downplay Climate Chaos 3. refuse to analyse food insecurity 4. reject degrowth economics 5. assume collapse is unlikely 6. defend the dangerous status quo 7. won't join the dots between crises Madness!!!

Governments of the world to citizens: "Not enough savings to get through #CoronaVirusOutbreak? Not our problem." Governments of the world to the corporations killing us: "We got you!"

What?? Google has made large contributions to climate-change denying organizations "that campaigned against climate legislation, questioned the need for action, or actively sought to roll back Obama-era environmental protections." theguardian.com/environment/20…?

Remember: 1. COVIDー19 2. coral bleaching 3. giant swarms of locusts 4. crop-killing record droughts 5. the emptying of the oceans 6. escalating water supply threats 7. forest fragmentation death spiral 8. ultra-destructive mega-hurricanes Which journalists will join the dots?

BREAKING: The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe scored a major victory in the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline today when a court found the Trump administration violated the law when it issued permits for the project. #NoDAPL ejus.tc/3dvJuTi

Want to fight climate change from home? Join #XRNYC #ExtinctionRebellion in a digital action on April 1st. Go to AGreenerGoogle.com and input your email to get full information ✊

Naomi Klein sharing years of global experience in crisis capitalism. ''It's possible for crisis to catalyze a kind of evolutionary leap.'' youtube.com/watch?v=IFqNAE…

The EPA uses this global pandemic to create loopholes for destroying the environment. This is a schoolbook example for what we need to start looking out for.

We demand evironmemtal regulations be reinstated. Senator Thom Tillis Richard Burr Extinction Rebellion Durham Youth XR Chapelboro Extinction Rebellion North Carolina Extinction Rebellion Durham, NC USA (⧖)💚🌎🕊️ Sunrise Movement 🌅 Neighbors on Call Chapel Hill - Carrboro NAACP @takeactionch

Global warming of 1.5C: 1) 'will represent a threat to global food security' 2) 'risks setting up feedbacks that could fall like dangerous dominos, fundamentally destabilizing the planet' 3) will mean we risk 'heading towards extinction later this century' THIS is the news.

Over 2,300 Google workers signed this letter to CFO Ruth Porat calling on Google to commit to a climate plan including no more funding for climate deniers or deals w/fossil fuel companies. Has Google responded? @GoogleWAC medium.com/@googworkersac…

No one is allowed to practice civil disobedience against the fossil fuel industry now because of COVID-19. If the fossil fuel industry gets its way, no one will be allowed to do it after COVID-19, either. heated.world/p/whats-better…