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1. There is a pandemic going on but there's also a class war raging more intensely than ever. Hospital staffing companies are cutting wages from the doctors and nurses who are risking their lives fighting the pandemic.
2. Essential services are being maintained by some of the lowest paid, most precarious workers, who often don't have key protection they need in a pandemic (including paid sick leave).
3. The stimulus packages that have passed and are being prepared skew towards helping corporations and the rich. This includes the tax rebates Pelosi is pushing in the next stimulus:
4. Strikes -- both union led and wildcat -- are breaking out all over the place.
5. We're in a much more explosive situation than the 2008 crisis that provoked Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party movement. The combination of naked plutocratic looting & a working class in physical danger is combustable. More thoughts here: thenation.com/article/societ…
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