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Covid-19 crisis hits America
by John Wojcikt
THE FIGURES as of Tuesday morning are horrific. More than 173,000 Americans are infected – well over twice the number infected in China, which has four times as many people as the USA. More than 3,400 are dead – also more than in China, where the pandemic started. The USA’s top health officials say that if everything goes “perfectly” we will “only” have up to 200,000 dead. If things don’t go perfectly, it could be in the millions, they say.
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Essential workers
by New Worker correspondent
AS ALWAYS, it is the working class that is at the sharp end of things. In the present situation workers are being laid off in vast numbers or are having to work in difficult conditions. Perhaps worst of all are the bosses in inessential business that still force workers to still come into work in order to boost profits.
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Essential workers
Safeguarding the environment and protecting life
by John Maryon
WITHIN THE BILLIONS of galaxies that form our universe a vast range of environmental conditions will exist. In addition to great variations of temperature, with some worlds seeing rivers of molten iron whilst others are hidden under seas of liquid methane, large differences of pressure, gravity and solar radiation will occur. Within this divergency a number of habitats will exist where carbon based life forms are able to evolve and develop, some with a degree of conscious intelligence. The stable presence of water in liquid form over billions of years appears to be a prerequisite for the formation of life.
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Safeguarding the environment and protecting life