X Caminhante :notverified: @xcaminhante@masto.donte.com.br

Hey y'all, I'm putting together a masterlist of COVID-19 related resources. If you know anything else that'd be good to add to the list, please do so, the link below gives you editing access.

https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/NN+MXs4eIopNZu95DGc363Pa/

I'm going to post a long thread on how to cope better if you're stuck indoors at the moment. I've been housebound by disability for a long while now, and sporadically housebound due to depression and agoraphobia before that. These are things that have improved how I deal with that. This is not gonna make houseboundness painless for you but it might help you cope. Disabled comrades are welcome to share their own advice to this thread.

If

a) workers living paycheck-to-paycheck are expected to be able to support themselves 🤔

and

b) multi-billion $ companies need huge bailouts after profits are hit for a couple of weeks 🧐

then

c) maybe those companies should be run by the workers? ✊

https://nitter.net/haymarketbooks/status/1242405902638030850#m

“A pandemic isn’t a collection of viruses, but is a social relation among people, mediated by viruses”

A melhor solução para a pandemia é a pior solução para a economia

Espero que tenha gente que some dois mais dois e entenda o que isso quer dizer sobre a economia

Se depois dessa crise, algum liberal vim falar comigo sobre estado mínimo . . . Vou partir pra porrada!

E se a gente deixasse 5 a 7 mil super ricos completamente pobres e usasse suas riquezas para equipar o SUS e salvar o micro e pequeno empresário?

e hoje que é aniversário da pessoa mais importante da instância?

feliz aniversário, @renatolond, sem a sua contribuição nenhum de nós estaria aqui <3

The reason why landlords are fighting so hard to not have a few months of rent forgiveness is that we'd all see that they'd be perfectly fine and they really are just parasites.

Discurso primeiro-mundista oportunista já tá falando de renda básica universal em resposta ao coronavírus.

Sabe o que a renda básica universal vai mudar no capitalismo?

Nada.

Os preços vão inflacionar e as pessoas vão continuar precisando trabalhar em situações absurdas pra se sustentar.

O que é preciso discutir é a universalização do acesso aos bens que atendam às necessidades básicas. Moradia, alimentação, eletricidade, saneamento, água, gás, Internet.

Suspension of rent even for just a couple of months would be a transformative event for this country.

This is gonna be a fist fight.

The countries taking the lead on the global stage to help others contain the coronavirus—Cuba and China—show definitively that neoliberalism is a death spiral that must be replaced by state-oriented, planned economies built around people, not just profit
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/03/17/italy-uk-help-cuba-china-venezuela-coronavirus-us-sanctions/

If a private firm needs bailout by taxpayers then govts should nationalize such entities.

We've had enough of corny capitalism by socializing losses and privatizing all profits all across the globe.

I will also be defending the right to complain about things from positions of privileges without getting lectured.

Talk about being bored and about frustrating work-from-home-skype-calls as much as you want.

You are human, you are allowed to express your unhappiness about things that impact you personally, including minor things.

You do not need to wrap everything in an 'i know other people have it much worse' disclaimer.