The coronavirus shows up the extraordinary weakness of our social infrastructure & the way our hyper-carceral and profit-driven political economy make all of us more vulnerable. And leadership, organizing needs to happen fast. More from me @LPEblog: lpeblog.org/2020/03/03/cor… /1
"Slowing the spread of the disease will be extraordinarily hard without major surge of social support and a commitment to something like basic social solidarity." /2
we need "interventions to reduce the precarity in which so many workers, carers, and migrants today in the US live, so that everyone is in a position to cooperate with recommendations that benefit us all." incl. direct payments, sick pay, no link to imm enforcement. /3
"Most of the public conversation to date about pandemic response has been about coercive measures – the travel bans and quarantines that policymakers fixate on. But the most urgent need is for a new politics of care in this pandemic." /4
"The unifying theme behind all of this sounds an LPE note: we need a state that can deliver essential care to all, or all of us are more at risk. We need a state and a democratic politics that is worthy of and responsive to the grave sacrifices we ask of people." /END
