Tag: Van Baham

Mask-wearing resistance looks like comedy – but the stakes are tragically high | Coronavirus outbreak | The Guardian

Donald Trump in face mask

via Mask-wearing resistance looks like comedy – but the stakes are tragically high | Coronavirus outbreak | The Guardian

Hope in the time of coronavirus lies in rebuilding the state | Van Badham | Opinion | The Guardian

People queue outside an Australian government welfare centre, Centrelink, in Melbourne on 23 March 2020

Hope in the time of corona lies in rebuilding the role of government, supporting the institutions that support people and dispensing with the proven lunacy that insists fattening corporations and “the market” delivers “healthier, wealthier, more motivated and productive workers”.

Because it doesn’t. As the times reveal; it never did.

via Hope in the time of coronavirus lies in rebuilding the state | Van Badham | Opinion | The Guardian