#Worldwide #Information #Blogger #LucSchrijvers: #Update: #anarchist #information from all over the #world - 7.04.2020

Today's Topics:

   
1.  libertario syndicalismo, Athens - Greece...... Immediate
      reinstatement of our colleague who was fired maliciously at
      Spandidos Publications (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - AL #303 - Ecology,
      Australian Fires: A Very Political Disaster (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
 
3.  Canada, Collectif Emma Goldman - [COVID-19] Message from
      prisoners in Laval migrant prison: Hunger strike until
      liberation. (fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
 
4.  US, black rose fed: Recommended Rent Strike Resources
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


5.  Britain, anarchist communist group ACG: Coronavirus,
      HIV/AIDS and World Hunger (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


6.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - press release:
      Transport crowded in the middle of an epidemic: long live
      capitalism (fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
 
7.  [Poland] Stop playing with our lives! We will not be a human
      shield for the Corona crisis! By ANA (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  anarkismo.net: Isolation is Communal - Covid19 by WSM
      Ireland (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
9.  ait russia: Epidemic, Panic and Totalitarianism [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1


https://bookworker.wordpress.com/2020/03/11/immediate-reinstatement-of-our-colleague-who-was-fired-maliciously-at-spandidos-publications-announcement/
Dear colleagues, -- we ask of your unions to issue and publish signed statements of support for our colleague and vice president of the
Workers Union In Publications, Bookstores, Photocopy Centers, Stationery, Digital Devices of Attica ( Athens- Greece), Ilias M. ---- The
publishing company Spandidos Publications has offices in Athens (Greece) and in London (UK). The publishing company is Britain is located at
5-6, King Street Cloisters, Clifton Walk, Hammersmith, London W6 0GY. ---- In this email we attach a short draft which we have prepared (see
the end of the email). You may sign it as it is or change it and/or write a new one (based on the information provided from our first
announcement, and also from any communication you may seek to find by contacting us).

Following this it is important to send these letters of support to the company's email: contact@spandidos-publications.com

whilst attaching our email as well: sylyp_vivliou@yahoo.gr

[All the material regarding the firing at Spandidos Publications are to be found published on our blog
https://bookworker.wordpress.com/tag/spandidos_apolysi_2020/]

We are at you disposal for any clarification and/or communication.

We will be informing you of any update or development of events

Fraternal Greetings,

WORKERS UNION IN PUBLICATIONS, BOOKSTORES, PHOTO COPY CENTERS, STATIONERY, DIGITAL DEVICES OF ATTICA (ATHENS - GREECE)

Lontou 6, Exarcheia - Athens |+30-210-3820537 & +306980182255
sylyp_vivliou@yahoo.gr bookworker.wordpress.com

Immediate reinstatement of our colleague who was fired maliciously at Spandidos Publications

We denounce the malicious sacking of our colleague and vice president of the Workers Union In Publications, Bookstores, Photocopy Centers,
Stationery, Digital Devices of Attica ( Athens- Greece), Ilias M.

The pretext of low productivity which was suddenly discovered by the employers after 7 years, finds itself in full contradiction with the
nature and range of responsibilities which they themselves assigned to the colleague. The firing is directly connected to his trade union
activities, his participation in strikes, with the last being the strike of the 18th of February regarding pensions and social security
reform.Three days before his firing and his consistent opposition to arbitrary incidents and spiteful treatment which exceed managements rights.

In a condition within which workers rights are being demolished, trade unions and rank and file unionism are being targeted and
marginalised, whilst investment and entrepreneurship are being glorified to the expense of working people. It is in such a situation that
employers are emboldened to trample on constitutional rights believing that this will be tolerated.

The firing of a colleague is an attack on all of us.

To the blackmail of being fired our answer is collective struggles.

Immediate reinstatement of our maliciously sacked colleague Ilias M.

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Message: 2



The gigantic fires that hit Australia testify to an acceleration of the climate crisis. Faced with this, emotion will have only one time and
a catastrophe will chase another: more than ever, the urgency is to get out of capitalism. ---- After the Amazon and Siberia this summer,
millions of hectares have gone up in smoke in Australia, at least 26 people have been killed, and the number of dead animals is in the
billions. It was not until mid-February that the firefighters announced that they had brought the fires under control - not always
extinguished - thanks in particular to heavy rains which in turn caused floods and damage ... Sometimes described as a taste from collapse,
a sign of the acceleration of the crisis or a tipping point, this catastrophe is more political than "natural".

The direct responsibility for a destructive capitalism is beyond doubt: there has never really been a policy to fight climate change. As
early as the 1970s and the first signs of climate change, governments and international organizations conveniently called for "adaptation".
Since then, international agreements have been window dressing. The consequences have been amplified locally by the policy of the Australian
government, which has rolled out the red carpet for mining - an export-oriented policy that feeds global industrial production. Several
members of the government have also distinguished themselves by climate-skeptical remarks.

Capitalism fuels the blaze
The event was quickly reduced to a few strong symbols, heartbreaking images, which create disarray and can also conceal the political nature
of the drama. As often, we are witnessing the multiplication of solidarity initiatives and other collections for Australia and its koalas.
But after the momentum of emotion and the consensual speeches, the eyes will be diverted from Australia as before from the Amazon or
Siberia... However the need to fight against this deleterious system remains an emergency. And this fight starts here, because if the
attitude of the Australian government has shocked, ours is hardly better ! The Melbourn Anarchist Communist Group called in early January
for climate school strikes to escalate and turn into workers' strikes, leading to a general strike. More than ever, the ecological emergency
is to get out of capitalism.

Irene (Ecology Commission)

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Incendies-australiens-Une-catastrophe-tres-politique

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Message: 3



Via Solidarité sans frontières. Link to the original, here. ---- Laval, March 24, 2020 ---- Following the petition that we launched[to the
authorities concerned, on March 19, 2020, to demand our release in the context of a pandemic *], and which did not give an answer on our
situation of detention. We decided to go to phase two of our plan; which is to go on an indefinite hunger strike starting today. This will
be done in the most peaceful manner and we are not breaking any law of the Detention Center. ---- Thank you for your support and any help is
welcome. ---- * Petition for the release of detainees, sent to the ministers of immigration and public security on March 19, 2020:
We are currently detained at the Immigration Monitoring Center in Laval. Given the emergency situation due to the spread of coronavirus, we
believe that we are at high risk of contamination. Here in the detention center, we live in a tight space where every day we see the arrival
of new people, coming from all over the place and who have not undergone either medical examination or screening to determine if they will
be potential carriers of the virus. Without forgetting the presence of security personnel who are also in permanent contact with the outside
world without passing any medical test. It is for all these reasons that we are launching this petition to demand our release.

# GreveFaimLaval #LiberezLesTous

In context

The 34 people are currently detained at the Laval Immigration Prevention Center, a prison where migrants are locked up if they do not have
the necessary identity documents or if Canada wishes them deport and that the Border Services Agency considers that they will not cooperate
in their deportation (very often out of fear). The detention of non-citizens is an important tool used by Canada to close its borders to
racialized people in the global south who suffered colonialism, while continuing to exploit their labor and resources.

Out of fear for their health, prisoners and prisoners in the prison for migrants in Laval underline in their petition the high risks
associated with keeping in a confined space. They are exposed to hundreds of wardens, food workers and health care workers who come in and
go out every day.

Their request comes at the same time as numerous urgent calls for the release of prisoners and prisoners, in Quebec, across Canada and
elsewhere, as an imperative for public health. This pandemic shows us how closely each member of society is connected to others, inside and
across borders, inside and outside prisons. We must stand in solidarity with those in precarious situations, such as those in detention.

Meanwhile, the migrants' prison visits have been canceled, leaving prisoners and prisoners isolated from outside support. Detention is a
major source of psychological distress, particularly for survivors of trauma, with poor nutrition, lack of sleep and limited access to
health care. The absence of visits also hinders their access to legal advice. Mandatory detention review hearings are now held by telephone.
Last week, the CBSA announced that it would stop the deportations for at least three weeks, but it forgot the people in detention.

On March 19, 2020, the detainees issued a call for release in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their handwritten petition was sent to Bill
Blair (the federal Minister of Public Safety), the Federal Minister of Health and the Quebec Department of Health, as well as international
organizations such as the Agence of the United Nations for refugees. After a week of inaction from government officials, the detainees went
on an indefinite hunger strike to demand their release.

How to help?

Support the locked up

In Canada, call the Ministers of Health and Public Safety:

Contacts

Federal Minister of Public Safety Bill Blair
Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca

Telephone: 613-995-0284

Fax: 613-996-6309

Federal Minister for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship:

Marco Mendocino Minister@cic.gc.ca
Telephone: 613-954-1064

Fax: 613-952-5533

What to say

- Ten migrant detainees at the Laval Immigration Prevention Center went on a hunger strike to demand their release. The situation is urgent
and requires immediate action to ensure their safety.

- Locking people up in this establishment and stealing their freedom is already unjustifiable, but to force people to stay in prison while
there is a pandemic is more than unfair, it is dangerous for everyone.

- I demand the immediate release of all those currently detained, as well as safe and quality accommodation for all those who are released.

- I also demand an end to the new detentions.

Support their demands everywhere on social media, alternative media and mainstream media by sharing this message, and posting or writing
articles that demand their release

Contextualization on immigration detention in Canada and the new prison for refugees in Laval

Is the imprisonment of migrants in Canada new?

No. Canada has detained migrants and refugees since its founding as a state, inheriting this practice from England, which used it to control
access to the land it colonized. At many points in its history, Canada has detained migrants in quarantine and internment camps, in hangars
at ports of entry, in converted hotels and in regular prisons.

Right now, there are three prisons dedicated to migrants: the Laval Immigration Prevention Center, the Toronto Immigration Monitoring Center
and the International Airport Immigration Monitoring Center from Vancouver. A new center is under construction in Surrey, British Columbia.
Canada also continues to detain migrants in provincial prisons.

Why do you say prison rather than detention center?

"Detention center" is a term used to hide the violence of the imprisonment. We say prison to make it clear that people are held there
against their will, in a cage, to the detriment of their mental and physical health.

We also use the word prison to link the detention and deportation of immigrants with criminal incarceration. We see immigration and prison
systems as working together to control and exploit the labor, land and resources of the colonized people, whether here in Canada or globally.

Why is the government building a new prison? What is the National Immigration Detention Framework (CNDI)?

In 2011, 2013 and again in 2016, migrants detained for long periods in provincial prisons in Ontario went on hunger strikes to demand an end
to Canada's inhuman treatment of migrants. In the same period, several other people, including Lucia Vega Jimenez, Jan Szamko, Mljioro
Gahunhu and Abdurahman Hassan died in immigration detention.

In response, Minister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale launched the National Immigration Detention Framework (CNDI). The CNDI allocated $ 138
million over 5 years for the construction of two new detention centers for migrants and the establishment of "alternatives to detention".
Far from responding to the underlying problem, these investments have rather strengthened and enlarged the state detention system.

Why are migrants and refugees detained?

Detention is a key tool in controlling immigration to Canada. Migrants and refugees are detained to facilitate their deportation from Canada.

There are three legal bases that the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) can invoke to detain people: the risk of absconding (the belief
that the person will not voluntarily submit to their deportation); the person is unable to convince the CBSA of their identity; or the
person is suspected of being a danger to the public. 80.6% of detentions are made on the basis of a "risk of absconding".

Is there a time limit on immigration detention in Canada?

No. Canada is one of the few countries in the world that detains people indefinitely, which means that people can be imprisoned for months
or even years and have no idea when (or how) they will be released. For example, Ebrahim Toure was detained for five and a half years on the
basis of a risk of absconding until his release in 2018.

Detainees are currently brought before the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) once a month for a detention review; if continued, detention
continues. The Supreme Court finally ruled in May 2019 that the principle of habeas corpus applies to migrant detainees. This will have an
impact on those detained for the long term.

Are there children detained in Canada?

Yes. Although the Minister of Public Security announced in 2018 that Canada would try to stop detaining children, minors are still regularly
imprisoned with their parents in Canada. For the year 2017-2018, 144 minors were detained in institutions across Canada. Others were
separated from their parents, who were detained. The plans for the new prison in Laval show that the intention to continue this practice is
there: they include a children's playground and a family room to allow fathers in detention to visit their children in detention.

Study found that, unsurprisingly, Canadian detained children have trouble sleeping, lose appetite and interest in play, and develop symptoms
of depression and separation anxiety, as well as several symptoms physical - many of these symptoms persist after release (Rachel Kronick,
2014).

The new prison for refugees in Laval

The new prison for refugees is designed to detain 158 migrants and refugees. It is built on land belonging to the Correctional Services of
Canada, right next to the Leclerc prison. The fences around the prison are supposed to be covered with greenery in order to limit the
"severity of the appearance", the iron bars on the windows must be "as imperceptible as possible for the public outside", and the area
Children's furniture must be hidden by a six-foot-high "visual barrier".

While it is presented as a friendlier, more "humane" establishment, it is clear that the government is very anxious to hide the prison
nature of the prison. Ultimately, the new prison is part of the $ 138 million investment to improve the government's ability to detain and
deport migrants and refugees.

What are "alternatives to detention"?

Another element of the National Immigration Detention Framework is what the government calls "alternatives to detention". While these
programs only receive around 4% of the budget, they are central to the marketing of the plan, and presented as a more humane approach to
controlling migrants.

In reality, these technologies allow the state to increase its capacity to monitor and control migrants outside prisons, for example via
monitoring by the GPS system of cell phones which forces migrants to report by telephone. regularly and cataloging and scanning their
voiceprints. Furthermore, they will not lead to a decrease in the number of people detained.

by Collectif Emma Goldman

http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2020/04/covid-19-message-des-prisonniers-de-la.html

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Message: 4


In the past month 10 million people have lost their job and many more have had their hours cut due to the social crisis of COVID-19.
Millions will be unable to pay their rent or mortgage April 1st and even more on May 1st. We need to stay home to fight this pandemic but
many are running out of money - we need food, we need out health, we need to be at home to help our families. Yet landlords and banks still
expect us to pay. ---- We believe that it is essential to politicize the current moment and pose collective action and organization as our
response. We need to support renters forming and joining tenant unions, we need to support worker demands for safety and higher pay, and we
need to use mutual aid efforts to meet daily needs and connect to larger demands and struggles. Only by strengthening popular organization
can we survive the current crisis and be well placed to push forward our struggles after the pandemic has passed.

Below are organizing guides put forward by key tenant unions in the U.S. and Canada followed by events and additional recommended resources.

Food Not Rent! Rent Forgiveness Guide - Los Angeles Tenants Union. Step-by-step guide for those who cannot or are refusing to pay rent.
English/Spanish.
The Tenants Will Win: TANC Pandemic Organizing Guide - Tenants and Neighborhood Councils, CA Bay Area. A quick guide with principles,
strategy, resources and basic organizing steps.
COVID-19 Organizing Guide - Philadelphia Tenants Union. A nuts-and-bolts organizing around tenant organizing and leadership building.
Keep Your Rent: Organizing Materials - Parkdale Organize, Toronto, Canada. Guides, posters and FAQs based around the #KeepYourRent campaign.
#CancelRent Organizing Toolkit - Autonomous Tenants Union, Chicago. Basic organizing resources, legal guide, tactics zine, along with
Chicago specific resources. English/Spanish.
Rebel Steps Podcast on COVID-19 and Rent Strikes. An audio guide with interviews on rent strike organizing that you can share with your
neighbors.
Sample Letter to Your Landlord. Copy this text and customize for your landlord, state and situation.

Online Events
North American Tenants Townhall on Saturday April 4th - Webinar open to all tenants with basic tools for organizing your neighbors into a
tenants union hosted by the Autonomous Tenants Union Network (ATUN). Saturday, April 4th.

Workplace Organizing for Long-Term Power During COVID-19 - Essential workplace organizing training via webinar hosted by the New York City
IWW. Tuesday, April 7th.

Tenant Organizers Panel - Discussion on the current political moment with tenant organizers from across the country hosted by Black
Rose/Rosa Negra. Date: TBA. (check back for update!)

Additional Resources
How to Form a Neighborhood Pod for Mutual Aid organizing
Mutual Aid Directory by IGD
Can I Get Fired for Talking about Virus Risks? By Labor Notes
Resources on Tenant Organizing, Housing and Gentrification by BRRN
Care in the Time of Coronavirus - Asian American Feminist Collective

https://blackrosefed.org/recommended-rent-strike-and-organizing-resources/

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Message: 5


A large number of people are due to die of coronavirus and many countries have mobilised against the spread of the virus. Without in any way
wishing to downplay the gravity of the situation, we should get some perspective on the situation. ---- Roughly 9.1 milion people die of
hunger each year, and that can sometimes be 25,000 a day. Why is there no global mobilisation against these horrendous figures? Why has this
been allowed to go on for so long? There is easily enough food to feed the world's population but the capitalist class believes in making
profits out of food, and limits the supply. ---- The same goes for HIV/AIDS. It has killed a grand total of 35 million since its appearance
in the 1980s, that's an average of 9.1 million deaths a year. So why has it not been dealt with in the same way as COVID-19 with high
expenditures to deal with the problem? Because AIDS was seen as a "gay plague" and was in fact known as GRID (gay-related immune syndrome)
before it got its current label. There was a lack of movement on the virus not least because of blatant homophobia. The tabloids in this
country and elsewhere had a field day using the AIDS virus to attack and demonise gay people. Both the Thatcher and the Reagan governments
refused to speak directly about gay sex and the various precautions needed because they feared they would be endorsing what they considered
as "deviant" sex. The often moralistic health campaigns took no account of the specific reality of those affected. This inevitably led to
the setting up of ACT UP groups around the world, formed by gay men.

Of course now HIV/AIDS is not seen as a "gay plague" anymore, although of course it has had a disproportionate effect on that community. It
now infects 40 million people around the world, many of them women. This is particularly the case in Africa, especially in the sub-Sahara
region, South Africa and Botswana.

In the USA infection rates are highest among the most poverty-stricken. Why is this? Because information about prevention, as well as
treatment, are not aimed at the poor because there is little chance of profit for capitalism. In addition, HIV/AIDS spreads in areas where
there is little education and healthcare. Other factors also affect that other community, drug users who inject. In Russia where poverty and
despair have severely hit the working class, use of injected drugs is the main cause of the spread of the virus.

Many women infected by HIV/AIDS are often the poorest. The double work of paid work/unpaid housework and childcare often means that women
have little time to get tested and ask for treatment. There is a direct relation between the spread of HIV/AIDS and poverty.

Recently the World Health Organisation (WHO) said: "Countries need to live up to their commitment to end the AIDS epidemic as a public
health threat by 2030 - a target included in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in
September 2015. The immediate challenge is to reach the Fast-Track targets for 2020, as HIV-related deaths are still unacceptably high. The
2020 targets include reducing the number of people dying from HIV-related causes to fewer than 500 000. Based on current estimates, this
provides an opportunity to prevent almost 300 000 deaths per year." However we see little sign of this happening, where's the profit?

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/04/02/coronavirus-hiv-aids-and-world-hunger/

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Message: 6



In recent days, there has been a large crowd in public transport, especially in the Paris region. The resumption of activity in companies
will help spread the virus. Who will toast ? Workers, of course. ---- For the past few days, we have seen crowded buses, subways and RERs,
even though they were almost empty just a week ago. No wonder! While only absolutely essential jobs should continue to operate, many
companies have resumed their activity as if nothing had happened. Except that in the meantime, the transport companies have reduced their
traffic, to decrease the number of employees on the ground. The result was not long in coming: during peak hours, it is impossible to
respect barrier gestures in transport, and the virus therefore circulates there. But all these people who are in the oars, it is not the
executives who give orders from their personal computer. It is not the shareholders of big companies who are confined to one of their
secondary properties in the countryside or at sea. It is the people who are forced to go to work to pay the rent and the errands.

Those who live far from work, and whose two or three hours a day of public transport were already painful and become dangerous. Undoubtedly,
it is these workers who will continue to fall ill, despite the confinement that does everything to put profits before our health. For the
bosses' government, capitalism must continue its lethal march at all costs. We must now massively provide the entire population with masks
to protect themselves, we must test everyone, and above all stop non-essential activities.

Union Communiste Libertaire, April 4, 2020

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Transports-bondes-en-pleine-epidemie-vive-le-capitalisme

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Message: 7



Statement by the National IP Committee - The Workers' Initiative Union (OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza) in response to the Polish government's
emergency measures in light of the Corona crisis ---- In response to the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Polish government
has adopted a set of emergency measures that they call an "anti-crisis shield". Both the amount of money that the "escudo" distributes for
assistance and the solutions it proposes are completely insufficient or simply totally disoriented. Many of the "shield" measures will lead
to reduced wages, weakening unions and making workers even more subordinate to our bosses than they already are. We are categorically
opposed to all wage cuts: workers will not bear the costs of yet another crisis. Below, we highlight the government's worst ideas and
omissions. The following is a list of 10 demands that must be met and implemented immediately.

Worst ideas and neglects of the government's "anti-crisis shield":

1. A large part of the working population in Poland has no job security. They are informal employees, hired through outsourcing or temporary
work agencies, or they are self-employed. These and these workers will suffer the most as a result of the crisis. Right now, they and they
face the threat of losing their earnings and any benefits. In response, the government's "shield" provides for a one-off payment of PLN
2,000 before tax (approximately € 435 before tax) to informal workers in need. Given the predictions that the crisis will last for many
months, this concession does not contribute to real support.

2. 2.5 million workers and informal workers in Poland do not have full insurance or do not have access to health insurance at all.
Effectively, they and they cannot take paid sick leave. Those who have access to basic public health care must pay if they need a specialist
or a hospital stay. The Corona outbreak shows that the universal right to health is in everyone's interest. But the government's "shield"
does not foresee significant changes in this matter.

3. The government is trying to focus public attention on protecting jobs. But this argument serves to justify the transfer of huge amounts
of money to entrepreneurs. With the "shield" rescue package, companies will gain government subsidies for wages during downtime and the
legal option to cut their employees' wages in half! This makes business the real beneficiary of the government's plan, which ends up putting
the costs on us workers.

4. The changes that the "shield" proposes to labor legislation give employers much freedom to reorganize work as they wish (especially in
relation to working hours or periods of economic downtime). In a country where unions and all forms of worker control have been
systematically combated, this means that there is no social control over the use of funds that companies will receive from the state budget.
In addition, it means that workers will find it difficult to resist employers' attempts to impose "anti-crisis measures" in the workplace,
even though those measures may not be necessary at all.

5. The government makes no mention of unemployment benefits. During times of high unemployment in the past, unions have repeatedly indicated
that unemployment benefits are very low and the period in which they are granted is very short. For example, in December 2019, only 16.4% of
registered unemployed were entitled to subsidies, amounting to just PLN 741.87 after tax (about 163 euros) during the first 3 months. We are
dealing with a serious crisis. The government must realize that there will be a significant increase in the number of unemployed people who
will need income to survive.

6. A massive wave of layoffs has hit workers who have no job security (informal employees, temporary workers, fixed-term employees and
self-employed workers). Mass layoffs have plagued workers and informal workers in sectors such as gastronomy, tourism, entertainment and
subcontracted public services. The crisis only highlighted the profoundly antisocial nature of temporary forms of employment. In the
meantime, the government's message to these and these workers is: "you should have prepared to assure yourself". As if this were really
possible for workers without any job security.

7. We say "no!" any changes aimed at making work more flexible (notably by extending reference periods). During the past three decades, the
typical government response to the crisis (both real and assumed) has been to make work more flexible. This practice had disastrous effects
on job security. Today, the government confirms that it can only operate within the canon of neoliberal economic policy, which at bottom
always aims to weaken the position of workers in the labor market.

8. The "shield" does not address the growing problem of low pensions. Nor does it provide any guarantee for and for elderly workers in the
face of the effects of the crisis.

9. Little attention is paid to the "shield" to protect the household budget against rising living costs, such as rising food prices and
rents. Likewise, the government does not consider the effects of lost earnings, for example: rent debt, mortgage debt, debt on basic bills
like gas, electricity and heating, or the threat of eviction or foreclosure.

10. The government's plan comes at a time when democratic decision-making procedures are suspended. In fact, we have no voice on these
highly important issues. We fear that any bailout will be aimed primarily at the banking sector, the biggest player in today's political
world. A large part of the PLN 212 billion aid package (around € 46 billion) is already being targeted at the financial sector. In the
previous economic crisis (2007-2008), the same banking sector consumed not billions / billions, but literally billions / trillions of
dollars and euros. In the current collapse, the financial sector is by no means helping to save the economy, but is dragging it to the
bottom. It is a scandal that the ruling class did not draw conclusions from the previous crisis and that today it is giving in again to
financial blackmail. The problem boils down to the fact that the banks (private and commercialized) are in possession of our wages, which is
what subjects us to their pressure and blackmail. Therefore, in a meeting with the government, the National Bank of Poland decided increase
banks' liquidity, relieving them of the obligation to make reserves (PLN 40 billion).

11. Successive neoliberal governments (including the ruling Law and Justice PiS party, which has been in power twice) have systematically
ignored the needs of the public health system, social services and other care services for the elderly and dependents. As a result of years
of cuts in public spending, today, these key sectors are not prepared for the ongoing battle. The Polish health care system is deteriorating
under the weight of several hundred people in need of hospitalization! Neglect, together with the long-term effects of austerity policy on
the public sector, can now lead to a large-scale epidemiological and economic collapse.

12. The "shield" does not provide support for guardians and caregivers (of children, the elderly and people with disabilities) who are now
dealing with difficulties in accessing medicines, treatments and rehabilitation.

Inplace of the "anti - crisis shield" of the government, we present our demands:

1. The temporary closure of large workplaces that are not essential during the epidemic and that pose a threat to public health due to their
organization of work (warehouses and factories that do not supply or produce critical products, such as medical materials or food). The
workers must receive their wages in full during this period. In turn, public authorities must ensure that employers do not force workers to
take "mandatory holidays".

2. A system of social benefits that will guarantee an income for all and all those who are unable to work. This system should also allow
universal access to healthcare, regardless of circumstances. The current crisis must be used to reorganize the entire social assistance
system, so that access to health care becomes a fundamental and universal right that is not linked to employment status. In addition, an
organized system from scratch should guarantee income and the right to housing for all.

3. Workers' control over the workplace must be established and strengthened. Any tax relief must be directed at and to the workers themselves.

4. Unemployment benefits must be increased and provided for longer periods of time. All persons of working age who are unemployed should be
entitled to receive this benefit.

5. Eliminate all forms of informal employment. Arbitrary contracts, fixed-term contracts, self-employment, temporary work agencies and
temporary work in general transfer the risks associated with the crisis (economic, environmental or health) to the shoulders of workers.
This only serves to make economic exploitation more intense. This epidemic proves that the only acceptable form of employment must be a
permanent employment contract (preceded, at most, by a single internship contract).

6. Protect the solidarity pension system and increase the minimum pension. The aim should be a pension system that allows older people to
cover living costs, so that there is no need to "work because the pension is too small".

7. A freeze on rent and mortgage payments. Stop evictions and provide free access to basic services for everyone (electricity, gas, running
water and heating). Provide immediate relief to the tens of thousands of people who are facing the homeless crisis.

8. Nationalize the banking and financial sectors, together with critical sectors in times of epidemic, such as health and transport, or
subject them to other rigorous forms of social control.

9. Prioritize the financing of the public health system in the state budget.

10. Establish a financial support program for the health care sector, in order to meet the needs of and dependents and their caregivers.

The extra costs of these programs cannot go beyond the wages of working people. Over the past 30 years, employers have seized more than half
of the wealth generated by the economy in the form of profits. Today, when money is needed for unemployment benefits or health care, we must
look for it in the pockets of bosses, millionaires, CEOs and bankers. Only dividends paid to shareholders last year by the 13 largest
companies listed on the Polish stock exchange totaled PLN 12.3 billion. This is ten times more than the funding directed to the Guaranteed
Employee Subsidies Fund, which guarantees the wages of workers in the event of an employer bankruptcy.

>> Quote from the featured photo banner:"People before profits! No more violation of workers' rights! "

Source:http://ozzip.pl/english-news/item/2617-stop-gambling-with-our-lives-we-wont-be-human-shield-for-coronarcisis

Translation> Ananas

anarchist news agency-ana

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Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine - Under the shelter of each other people survive. ---- It is within times of crisis when the thin
veil of neoliberalism slips to reveal the emperor is not wearing any clothes. It exposes the sheer inefficacy of capitalism to cope with
human crises and cater for the most basic human needs. In these times, when the capitalist state is left reeling, we see glimpses of
community, solidarity and interdependence emerge once again - the very ideals neoliberalism has for the last 40 odd years attempted to erode
and eradicate. It exposes that the ‘common sense' manner of organising our lives, work and economy is entirely at odds with the will of the
people but also, very importantly, it provides us with the opportunity to imagine a transformed world
There is a very distinct layer of poinency in reading the late Mark Fisher's ‘Capitalist Realism' at this moment in time. Fisher wrote the
book directly preceding the global financial crash in 2008, prior to this, imagining a break with neoliberalism felt impossible; a major
stagnating point of the left has been it's failure to prefigure or create at scale a vision of what a transformed world should look like. He
argued that the greatest success of neoliberalism was to limit our imagination of what social movements could achieve in building towards a
revolutionary world. Fisher lived to see the fallout of the financial crisis, accelerated inequality and how society was organised upwards.
It certainly felt as though the ideological bond with neoliberalism was broken and this was becoming steadily more recognisable throughout
the decade. However, in absence of a strong, organised left, a viable alternative felt out of reach. Despite the fact most acknowledge the
current system is inherently unjust.

The current crisis is not a banking crisis or a crisis of debt as it was in 2008, it feels much more concrete and immediate than that.
Today's crisis forces us to rely on the tools humankind have always relied upon: solidarity, care and interdepence. It is through these
tools that we find the means to cope but also we can begin to imagine and prefigure what a transformed world should look like.

A politics of care is the politics of anarchism
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What could reveal the limitations and indeed failure of neoliberalism more than a global pandemic. An ideology based on cultivating
individualism will not assist us in overcoming this crisis; social solidarity is acknowledging the concessions we all collectively make by
isolating ourselves are acts of care and are there to protect those who are most vulnerable to the virus. This is largely seen in the wide
scale compliance with physical distancing and isolation measures made on behalf of public health expertise. It is seen also in the numerous
mutual aid, community and support groups that have sprung up over the last number of weeks.

As anarchists, communists and leftists we do not speak at an individual level, we instead strive for the communal, we build social bonds and
break down power dynamics and hierarchies that may arise in the process. To do this we must look at our interdependence on the people around
us and see how thoroughly we are indebted to the assistance of others. Kropotkin defined solidarity as ‘the unconscious recognition of the
force that is borrowed by each man from the practice of mutual aid; of the close dependency of everyone's happiness upon the happiness of
all'. When speaking on mutual aid, Kroptokin himself acknowledged that merit should not be awarded based on our individual contributions
towards a comunal aim but rather on the multitude of efforts by innumerous others that allows any one person to contribute, by doing so he
placed dependency above our ability to contribute and considered human vulnerability as a key virtue.

To organise a society around need opposed to profit requires us to acknowledge our dependence on community and social bonds; in this sense
interdependence is a revolutionary aim:

"All things are for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men have worked in the measure of their strength to produce them,
and since it is not possible to evaluate every one's part in the production of the world's wealth. That each and every person has a right to
well being; there is a right to well being for all"

As well as being a revolutionary aim, it provides us a basis to fundamentally rethink what we consider necessary and valuable, why forms of
labour that focus on care are undervalued and how to resist against the privatisation of care work - both by private firms creating two tier
health systems and by the state who push care work back into the realm of the nuclear family where it's seen as a ‘private' family issue.
The latter is becoming increasingly prevalent, in an article by Helen Lewis in New Atlantic, she outlines now with child care facilities and
schools closed, caring, nurturing and educational responsibilities are now taking place as unpaid labour inside the home. Women who
generally occupy caring roles, while also being more likely to hold jobs that are part-time, more flexible and pay less; women - out of
obligations both traditional and practical - are more likely to pick up the additional workload compared with their male counterparts in the
home.

An anarchist definition of care and nurturance must firstly break with the maternal archetype but also expand upon our notion of care, the
Care Collective define this as "not only the ‘hands-on' care people do when directly looking after the physical and emotional needs of
others. ‘Care' is also an enduring social capacity and practice involving the nurturing of all that is necessary for the welfare and
flourishing of human and non-human life."

The implications of such a definition of care are far and expansive. It has the potential to encompass community based spaces and
infrastructure, public green spaces, community libraries, recreational and educational centres. We are now presented with a chance to
redefine our localities and communities, to claw back resources against neoliberalism's insatiable urge to privatise all and to create these
resources outside the central authority of the capitalist state.

Does the state ‘care'? Social democracy versus revolutionary change.
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"We're all Keynsian now" - Richard Nixon

A common feature of the crisis has been the scrambling of right wing states to implement more socialised measures in terms of income
protection and health care. In the space of two weeks we have witnessed Fine Gael state they are abolishing the two tier health system (at
least temporarily), the DUP calling for universal basic income and the Tories offering up to 80% of earnings for self-employed and salaried
workers. While these measures are surely welcomed by all those trying to survive with loss of income, we should not be duped or placated by
social democratic measures but use them as a springboard to organise for the world we want to see and live in.

Fine Gael do not feel that workers are owed the concessions they are being shown, nor do their sympathies lie with workers whose income has
disappeared overnight. The roll out of centre left measures is much more likely to be the result of their hand being forced by the public.
Firstly, by the fact that Fine Gael's free-market driven ideology cannot cope with a crisis like this and secondly, in February the
electorate gave an abundantly clear message on what it would be willing to tolerate. There was no viable option other than to concede ground
to moderate left policies or see their party crumble. We should not forget the cynical nature with which these measures are being rolled
out, and the insistence that "under normal circumstances" such measures would "economic suicide". Nor should it be forgotten the disdain and
contempt they treated health care workers over a year ago who they now patronisingly deem as heroes. They are heroes undoubtedly, but this
needs to be acknowledged with material gains not with hollow applause.

Varadkar as Minister for Health in 2016 stated in an article in the Independent: "‘What can happen in some hospitals is sometimes, when they
have more beds and more resources, that's what kind of slows it down.'

When asked why, he replied: "Because they[hospital staff]don't feel as much under pressure."

Directly preceding the nurses strike in February 2019 Simon Harris stated in another article by the Independent that financial penalties
would be considered for striking nurses by pausing increments and pay restoration guaranteed by the Public Service Stability Agreement.

The history of the various peaks of social democracy is a curious one. The strongest movements for social democracy occurred after times of
intense crisis: the New Deal in the US after the Wall St. crash in the 1930s, the rise of the SPD after the First World War in Germany or
the establishment of the welfare state in the UK in the aftermath of World War 2. Taking the UK as an example, after WW2 the British state
was left in tatters. The huge loss of life and massive destruction of infrastructure meant the capitalist state could not organise itself as
it did prior to the war. Large scale labour movements also ensured workers demands were met. Vast swathes of public/council housing was
built, education was largely free and well funded and perhaps most significantly the NHS was established. Even the most hardened of leftists
cannot deny these measures brought about very notable improvements to people's quality of life and well-being. So what went wrong? How did
social democracy fade into history and essentially provide zero resistance for Thatcherism despite large labour movements, strong trade
unions and massive public consent?

It's famously said social democracy was the greatest saviour of capitalism, and indeed how could the capitalist state survive such crises
like world wars or global pandemics without socialised policies? One could argue that through bureaucracy, the Labour party and union
leaders themselves became a new elite, as they rose through the ranks of their respective institutions only to become corrupted by state
power. The traditional left institutions of the union and the party were undemocratic and self compromising, to paraphrase Stuart Hall they
were no longer representatives of the working class but managers of the working class. When rates of profitability could no longer be
maintained social democracy was wiped out with the stroke of a pen.

After forty years of neoliberalism, there is something still to be salvaged from the era of social democracy and that is the sense of
community and solidarity that surrounded it. The SPD in Germany could never have become the political force it was without the grassroots
organisation. SPD members established beer halls, sports clubs, women's groups, youth clubs to name just a few. It created social ties that
bred a strong sense of solidarity within the locality. Without community British mining towns and villages could never have survived as long
as they did when Thatcher brought war to their doorstep.There is no doubt that these are incredible examples of the programs of care and
nurturance we spoke of earlier. Presently, we can see these bonds emerging once more. We must ask ourselves as anarchists will it be the
state that can take your kids for the evening, will it offer to pick you up a few groceries or check on your eldery relatives if you are
working? As anarchists and revolutionaries how do we take the institutional gains of social democracy, democratise and commuminse them?

Now we are left with the question: how do we build movements for revolutionary change in isolation? The fight of our lives is coming so what
are the tools we need to learn to build capacity in our communities and workplaces and what can we do to get ready now? A steep learning
curve is ahead of activists whose power has traditionally, and for good reason, been in the streets. We need to adapt to entirely new ways
of organising at least in the short to medium term if we are to have a chance of winning a transformed world. We have the principles now
what we need are the tools.

References

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-mutual-aid-a-factor-of-evolution#toc8
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mitchell-cowen-verter-undoing-patriarchy-subverting-politics-anarchism-as-a-practice-of-care
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/03/feminism-womens-rights-coronavirus-covid19/608302/
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4617-covid-19-pandemic-a-crisis-of-care

https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31808

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Message: 9


On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the pandemic of the coronavirus infection COVID-19 (1), which began to
spread actively around the world from China. ---- The initial outbreak of COVID-19 took place in December 2019 in the city of Wuhan, Hubei
Province, People's Republic of China. In order to stop the spread of infection by the decision of the Chinese authorities, Wuhan was
quarantined on January 22. More and more often the world began to spread news about a new terrible epidemic that struck China, which was far
from the majority of Europeans. The threat seemed terrible, but far away, which fueled a certain interest in it, since it is always more
interesting to watch the "apocalypse" not in a feature film, but "live", while being at a respectful distance so as not to suffer yourself.
So a person can tickle his nerves, and become involved "in History" (with a capital letter), become a part of it.

Meanwhile, the situation in China did not improve, the number of cases was already reaching tens of thousands, and the world, which seemed
to be used to various kinds of "flu" (bird, swine ...), was inclined to calmly enough, albeit with bated breath, to monitor the development
events. However, already in February the situation changed dramatically - a rapid march of an epidemic across the planet began, which led to
the declaration of a pandemic: from the point of view of WHO, a pandemic (from the Greek - "the whole people") is an epidemic that is
rapidly spreading worldwide (2).

As a result, Europe began to seize swiftly spreading panic, as it turned out that a terrible, but very distant trouble came here. In
different countries, public events began to be canceled, for example, in Spain, on February 13, the World Mobile Congress was canceled (3),
scheduled for February 24-27.

Since March 13, it has become clear that Europe is becoming the center of the epidemic, where more and more countries have begun to
introduce more stringent measures to combat the spread of infection. As it turned out, the measures were taken with a clear delay. Moreover,
it turned out that the neoliberal reforms in the field of healthcare in Europe have reduced the ability of the EU countries to respond
adequately to such threats in recent years. The situation was seriously worsened by the fact that for a long time through the media such an
image of the terrible threat of COVID-19 had been created that people found themselves in a situation of extremely difficult
information-psychological pressure. In the conditions when medicine undermined by the reforms began to obviously not cope with the increased
load on it, panic began to seize the ruling elites now.

At the same time, measures to combat the spread of infection were taken not only at a delayed pace, but also extremely hesitantly, while
society, for its part, albeit afraid of a new threat, was reacting inertia. The result was the spread of total chaos, when at first
individual cities, and then entire areas began to be closed in quarantine. In the news there was news about the withdrawal of the army on
the streets of Germany and France, Italy was completely isolated, where the spread of the virus began to grow rapidly. Already on March 25,
74.386 cases of the disease were registered here. At the same time, Italy showed an atypically high mortality rate from COVID-19 - more than
10%, which was caused by a more "old" population than in many other European countries.

As a result, "monstrous" details about the situation in Italy began to creep in the news and on the Internet: the military on the streets,
literally littered with coffins, morgues and hospitals, overflowing with sick people. All this only added panic to the rest of the world.

At the end of March, the situation in the USA began to develop at a faster pace. So, if on March 18, 8,074 people infected with the new
virus were detected here, then by the 23rd the number reached almost 43 thousand, and on March 26 the USA was ahead of Italy in the number
of cases.

At the same time, in the original epicenter of China, the spread of the epidemic was stopped on March 19-20, and on March 29, the PRC
authorities announced the end of the COVID-19 epidemic in the country. However, in the rest of the world, the situation continues to
deteriorate rapidly. As of late evening on March 31, there are 846,251 sick people in the whole world, and 41,482 dead (4).

The period from March 30 to April 3 was declared non-working in Russia, many regions switched to the so-called "self-isolation" regime,
which essentially means quarantine, which is carried out extremely inconsistently: for example, by decision of the Moscow government of
March 29, it was decided to restrict movement in the city of pedestrians, however, at the same time it was said that movement by personal
transport, as well as entry and exit from the city are not limited (5).

The state of panic began to cover an ever wider segment of the population, some people began to talk about 20% mortality from the new virus,
and many were seized with fear that it would be "like in Italy."

But, is everything so terrible as it might seem at first glance, when you are literally bombarded with constant reports of ever new sick and
dead from the media?

Firstly, regarding mortality data. Of course, we cannot talk about the fact that it reaches 20% - this is a percentage of those who have
already "gone through the disease." Indicative in this sense are data for China, where as of the evening of March 31, there are a total of
81,518 cases of the disease with 3,305 deaths and 76,052 fully recovered. That is, mortality in this case reaches about 4%. In general, the
indicators are higher in the world, approaching 5%. This is all - according to official data, which will still be subject to future
adjustments, since it is already suggested that many patients may not be included in the statistics due to the asymptomatic course of the
disease (6), and also because the main risk group is people of the older generation, after 40 years and older, often over 60, although, of
course,

The situation looks quite interesting in relation to Italy. So, here, according to statistics on COVID-19, at the end of March, he died from
him, roughly speaking, 800-900 people a day. The health system began to cope, and some morgues were indeed filled with coffins. However,
there is other evidence that casts serious doubt on all the hysteria that is developing around Italy. The fact is that the mortality rate
for a given country under normal conditions is approximately 1,600 people per day. And, judging by the data available at the end of March,
the overall mortality from all diseases in Italy remained at about the same level, however, given the hysteria and fear of COVID-19, and
also taking into account the fact that people of older age groups often die in the first place having and without a new virus a whole bunch
of diseases, fear has done its job, and the diagnosis seems to have sometimes been made first of all by the very fact of the presence of the
virus. As for the situation with the coffins, the cremation system ceased to cope first of all, since the load on it increased noticeably
under the new conditions: there was a "redistribution of the dead" between cemeteries and crypts in favor of crematoria (7).

The same is said by the doctor of medical sciences, professor, academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Igor Gundarov:
"Therefore, it is not clear to me where this unprecedented panic has come from? Take Italy. According to statistics, there annually about
600,000 people die from various diseases. Divided by 365 days, it turns out 1700 people. So, is now in Italy began to die more? No, the
overall mortality rate in Italy has not changed "(8).

We now turn to official statistics from the site countrymeters.info, its Russian-language segment. So, according to this site, in 2019 in
Italy, a total of 579,244 people died. This is approximately 1,586 people per day. Now we turn to the data for the current year: "Mortality:
an average of 1,588 people per day." More specifically: a total of 144,489 people have died in Italy since the beginning of the year, and
specifically, on March 31, 1,561 people. That is, the average mortality per day is 1.605 people (9). That is, the situation really remains
the same, but the panic, including the ruling elites that swept the country and the media, is doing its job: the country is closed for total
quarantine and is on the verge of a tremendous economic crisis and hunger riots (10).

Does this mean that the COVID-19 virus is harmless? Of course not, since it gives serious complications that lead to the death of people
with weak immunity. That is, this is another factor of mortal risk, which has been added to all the others. Accordingly, it must be taken
into account, and respond appropriately to the threat: strictly observe personal hygiene. Everything. The reaction of the authorities with
total quarantine of everyone and everything, shouts about an unprecedented threat and the introduction of measures such as total control
over the movement of everyone and everyone, literally at every step, plunging Russia and many other countries of the world into the era of
digital cyberpunk totalitarianism - are frankly inadequate and smacks of banal political hype in conditions of general hysteria.

Given the fact that the world is slipping into a new economic crisis, which is likely to be more severe than the 2008 crisis, we can say
that for the ruling elites, the global hysteria around the "COVID-19 pandemic" seems like manna from heaven. What is called, if there was no
such threat, it should have been invented.

Another thing is that the multibillion-dollar losses of the economies of many countries of the world due to the introduction of strict
quarantine measures, the prospect of a multiple increase in the unemployment rate (11), and, accordingly, poverty and poverty, do not bode
well for the world.

And in addition, a few words about the so-called world-historical illustration of the fact that something is wrong with the hysteria that
has gripped the world.

As I noted above, the death rate from COVID-19 is currently about 5%, although the data will still be adjusted.

Accordingly, we pay attention to the "hazard" factor:

- "bird flu" (H5N1) 1997, the mortality rate was 52.8% (12);

- Ebola in 1976 - 40.4%;

- H7N9 influenza virus, 2013 - 39.3%; - MERS-CoV virus, 2012 - 34.4%;

- "swine flu" (H1N1), 2009 - 17.4%;

- SARS, 2002 - 9.6%.

Yes, for the most part, the total number of deaths did not go and is close in comparison with what is happening now, but the mortality rate
is important for us now. As for the scale of distribution, "swine flu" is of interest here, which, for about a year, has been ill from
1,632,258 people, and 284,500 died (13).

Moreover, with regard to the extent of the current epidemic. In the world today there are many others, no less, and sometimes much more
dangerous epidemiological diseases. In the end, according to WHO, up to 650,000 people die every year from the same flu and its
complications. Yes, the percentage of mortality relative to cases is lower, however, the scale speaks for itself (14).

There are other dangers.

The same pneumonia, from which in 2016, according to WHO data, 1.2 million people out of 197 million cases died. Someone will say "only"
0.6%, without paying attention to absolute quantitative indicators. In 2015, 10.4 million people developed tuberculosis, and 1.4 million
13.5% died from it!

In 2016 and 2017 217 and 219 million people were ill with malaria in the world, respectively. At the same time, 435,000 people died in 2017.
There are other dangerous viruses, like those carrying tens and hundreds of thousands of lives, as well as causing serious complications in
survivors of the disease (15).

But the problem seems to be that often all these viruses are a problem primarily in the countries of the "global South" ("third world"),
economically underdeveloped and lagging countries. Now, the danger in the media has covered Europe and North America and began to spread
rapidly (16), which provoked a mass hysteria both of the simple population of the countries affected by the epidemic and their ruling
circles, who had been engaged in "health care" reforms for years, which essentially undermined the ability to adequately counter such threats.

As a result, we now have a frightened population, frankly hysterical mass media and political elites, who are taking measures of control
over their own population unprecedented in modern Europe. And the consequences of all this promise to be the most deplorable in all possible
meanings of the word.

(1) What was called a pandemic caused the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

(2) Strictly speaking, a pandemic is the highest spread of the epidemic. But WHO has its own criteria, therefore, it can afford to call a
pandemic with equal rights both a disease with several thousand infections and tens of millions, which eliminates the concept of "pandemic",
at the same time causing involuntary associations with "Black Death" and "Spanish Woman" .

(3) One of the world's largest exhibitions of mobile electronics, held since 1987.

(4) https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

(5) https: //www.sobyanin.ru/koronavirus-ogranichenie-peredvizheniya-i-sospod ...

(6) https://42.tut.by/676890

(7) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqajeL5hjYU&feature=youtu.be

(8) https://svpressa.ru/health/article/261094/

(9) https://countrymeters.info/ru/Italy

(10) https://aitrus.info/node/5424; https://aitrus.info/node/5425

(11) "They say that in Italy there will be 25 million more unemployed. This does not include pensioners, "says Italian Alessandra Papini:
https: //dailystorm.ru/chtivo/nekotorye-stali-silno-zlitsya-na-lyudey-na -...

(12) By the way, the outbreak of bird flu then provoked a global economic crisis, as a massive slaughter of poultry began, which hit the
economy, and Russia defaulted in 1998: Business FM radio station kindly reminded me of this.

(13) https://news.21.by/other-news/2020/02/04/1973672.html

(14) https://tass.ru/obschestvo/4810863

(15) https://news.21.by/other-news/2020/02/04/1973672.html

(16) Yes, the "swine flu" of 2009 was no less, and, perhaps, it is too early to judge accurately, is even more dangerous than COVID-19, but
then WHO seriously underestimated the real statistics (so it's too early to judge the real numbers of the current epidemics). It was
revealed later, after the end of the epidemic.

A. Fedorov

https://www.facebook.com/andrey.fedorov.3110567/posts/224961345419685

https://aitrus.info/node/5429

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