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In the spirit of Bourne’s “unscared ghost” (JDP again), we offer a slightly more prosaic riff to convey our motivating ire in Baffler no. 63: division among workers is the health of the capitalist class.
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âOur New York Momentâ: Southern California Reels as Virus Surges
In the coming days, Los Angeles County will reach a level where one in 10 residents has tested positive for the coronavirus.
Nataly Arias mourning the death of her grandfather, Gilberto Arreguin, who died from complications of Covid-19, at the Continental Funeral Home in Los Angeles.Credit.Alex Welsh for The New York Times
Published Jan. 9, 2021Updated Jan. 15, 2021
LOS ANGELES â A sustained surge of coronavirus infections has locked Southern California in crisis, overwhelming intensive care wards, ambulance services, funeral homes and local officials.
Dozens of overcrowded hospitals have had to shut their emergency-room doors to ambulances for hours at a time. Medical wards are running dangerously low on a vital necessity: oxygen, and the portable canisters to supply it to patients. Los Angeles County has a coronavirus-related death every eight minutes, a grim toll accompanied in many neighborhoods