[Xmca-l] Re: FW: Unbelievable: number 19th strain according to Fox News?

Thu Apr 16 11:14:23 PDT 2020

Mike, hi

Surely not funny, of course. And we should have an even greater concern about India, where 1.4billion people are supposedly ‘shut down’ ( actually, many millions are walking hundreds of miles ‘home’ from the cities to their villages, wearing masks, but ..  ), and nationalist, anti-Muslim extremism - rampant before the crisis – is growing:

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/16/arundhati_roy_coronavirus_india?utm_source=Democracy*Now*21&utm_campaign=5b85440b98-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-5b85440b98-192514813__;KyU!!Mih3wA!UAMlfob2n_Lh-WqpyVZk7kkIB6_iTHxnCHcoi9KlYa0gsgp20bbtBYAvZg22fqto0zXcVg$ 

We can anticipate at least 40 million deaths in India  if this gets going -  and the fascists are planning to emerge dominant from this – all encouraged by your big man in the WH.

These deaths will perhaps make the holocaust seem like small fry – will we ever see trials for crimes against humanity? Perhaps not, because it will be difficult to pin these deaths on to intentional action, but maybe there should be a crime for intentional inaction? The abject state of public health systems (long term) and the incompetence and political management (short term) being the main charges.

Then in the US we can see some analyses of the way the deaths are hugely discriminatory against black/ethnic minorities and the poor: “More than 70 per cent of COVID-19 deaths in the state of Louisiana were African-Americans, despite accounting for just a third of the general population. In New York City it's 17 per cent of deaths, for a 9 per cent share of residents.”https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-16/drum-covid-african-american-affected/12153268__;!!Mih3wA!UAMlfob2n_Lh-WqpyVZk7kkIB6_iTHxnCHcoi9KlYa0gsgp20bbtBYAvZg22fqs1xrPL7g$   Globally translated – this will become a terrible indictment of the world’s structure of poverty:

I had to pause the other day – is this kind of admittedly political posting appropriate to xmca listserve’s concerns: I think that’s a question for xmca – “are we/is xmca relevant to the millions of deaths likely as the pandemic spreads to the poor nations?” The question is moot – only you people out there can say, or do by saying.

Julian

PS It’s good that in some parts of the world this information is still getting out. The middle east, and Africa, in many parts, maybe is more difficult.

From: <xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu> on behalf of mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu>
Reply-To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
Date: Thursday, 16 April 2020 at 18:36
To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: FW: Unbelievable: number 19th strain according to Fox News?

There is absolutely nothing funny about the crypto fascists running this government, Julian.
Trump is pushing towar monarchy in a fashion that might be funny if it were a Gilbert and Sullivan
musical.
mike

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 2:27 PM Julian Williams <julian.williams@manchester.ac.uk<mailto:julian.williams@manchester.ac.uk>> wrote:
Dear all,

Kellyanne Conway … I think I heard her name a while back – what a Con, Ha ha?

But perhaps not so very funny, right?

God help us – it all fits – and now international pandemic and the next step is to defenestrate our only World Health Organisation…

I can’t see anything short of a massive rebellion being an appropriate response… get those idiots out of the white house?

Julian

Subject: Fwd: Unbelievable

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway falsely suggested Wednesday that there had been 18 previous strains of the novel coronavirus as she defended President Trump’s decision to suspend funding to the World Health Organization.

"This is covid-19, not covid-1, folks, and so you would think the people charged with the World Health Organization facts and figures would be on top of that,” Conway said during an interview on Fox News.

In fact, the “19” at the end of the virus’s name denotes that it was discovered in 2019, not that it is the 19th strain of the virus. At its outset, it was referred to by health officials as the “2019 novel coronavirus.”

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