COVID-19 and the austerity death trap

The rich are going to try to force us back to work — in the middle of a pandemic.

Our government has yet to put in place the basic pandemic mitigation measures you would need to flatten its growth curve — and yet we are already talking about a pivot back to business as usual. Trump has already declared that “we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself” and suggested that the measures will be lifted “fairly soon”; Governor…