Trump's speech on the #CoronavirusPandemic was a nationalist rant written by his fascistic advisor Stephen Miller. What is required is a globally-coordinated response to a global problem, but this is incompatible with the capitalist nation-state system. wsws.org/en/articles/20…
2. Trump took no responsibility for the inaction and disarray that has characterized his administration’s response to the crisis. Rather, he presented the botched American reaction—viewed around the globe as a disgrace—as the “best anywhere in the world.” #COVID19
3. Trump’s proposed no measures that would slow the spread of the disease. He announced no funding towards expanding hospitals or increasing available resources for testing, or even providing the most basic protective equipment for frontline medical workers. #coronavirus
4. Trump treated the #pandemic as though it were a foreign invasion. He described the disease as a “foreign virus” that “started in China” and announced unprecedented travel restrictions, banning all non-citizens traveling from Europe to the United States.
5. The working class must not accept what Trump and Merkel have accepted: That millions will die. Workers must not accept their self-serving and half-hearted lies and excuses. #CoronavirusPandemic
6. Workers must instead demand that urgent measures be taken to combat the #CoronavirusPandemic. Hundreds of billions of dollars must be made available to ensure testing, not to mention trillions more for urgently rebuilding the healthcare infrastructure.
7. Paid sick leave and paid time off for taking care of children, and full compensation for the economic effects on quarantines, must be immediately provided to all.
8. Workers cannot wait for the ruling classes to implement these policies but must immediately begin to organize workplace and neighborhood committees to ensure safety, sanitation and the humane treatment of the ill and suffering. #COVID19
9. The ravenous spread of the #CoronavirusPandemic is the end result of the constant subordination of human need to profit interests—so-called shareholder value. This market religion, preached for decades from every pulpit, has led society into a blind alley.
