Tag Archives: COVID – 19

CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC – 20

Posted on June 1, 2020 by stutteringsteps

The killing of yet another Afro-American citizen of the USA, George Floyd, on May 25th, has once again revealed that alongside the Covid-19 biological virus pandemic, there run much older intellectual viruses of prejudice. Intellectual as well as biological viruses … Continue reading →

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CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC – 12

Posted on April 27, 2020 by stutteringsteps

The Covid-19 Pandemic lock-down has made it obvious that most people can manage without a constant flow of luxury items and even many non-luxury items. However, when it comes to basics such as food, water, shelter and electricity, the matter … Continue reading →

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CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC – 7.

Posted on April 2, 2020 by stutteringsteps

For the want of…..? With each update of news since the Pandemic commenced, I have been reminded of a childhood story told to me about how a king lost a war against an invader. The story went something along the … Continue reading →

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CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC – 6.

Posted on March 29, 2020 by stutteringsteps

A world upside down. The primary target for all the financial measures taken by pandemic-struck governments has been to provide aid to industry, commerce and banking. Such ‘largesse’ is not actually to save the ‘people’ but the existing economic ‘system’. … Continue reading →

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CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC – 5

Posted on March 26, 2020 by stutteringsteps

After initially downplaying the combined contagion capability of Covid-19 and its conduit along the global supply chain, many governments, have started to rehearse a self-serving narrative. It is a narrative which will dominate contemporary and future discussions and evaluations of … Continue reading →

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CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC – 3

Posted on March 21, 2020 by stutteringsteps

Covid 19 and Capitalism. Viruses are an ancient life-form and they pre-date the capitalist mode of production by millions, if not billions of years. Yet viruses and capitalism do have something in common. A virus is a member of the … Continue reading →

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THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC – 1.

Posted on February 29, 2020 by stutteringsteps

There has been a lot of confusion concerning the latest corona virus to spread globally among the human population. Misinformation concerning (COVID -19) has been spread (like a virus itself) by ‘vectors’. The main vectors for the current epidemic of … Continue reading →

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