Miscellaneous
Brook Hines — pandemic gets personal. Forcing low-wage and unsafe work by cutting off unemployment benefit is cruel and stupid (i.e. totally unsurprising for Republican Governors). SARS-CoV-2 origin: US funded gain of function research in Wuhan. Everything we thought we knew about the virus might actually be wrong. Jeanine Molloff: The Justice Report on Vote Suppression, Constituional Crises, and COVID Karens. CITATIONS: Starving people to force them back to work, Common Dreams, Jake Johnson Biden cuts pretty much all campaign promises from next budget deal, Washington Post, Jeff Stein & Tyler Pager Did US-funded research in Wuhan cause the pandemic?, Current Affairs, Nathan J. Robinson Origin of COVID: did people or narture open Pandora's Box at Wuhan, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Nicholas Wade [this is the first and most important piece on pandemic origins]