Most Patients’ Covid-19 Care Looks Nothing Like Trump’s – The New York Times

“I got angry,” said Ms. Hill, 41, who isolated in her bedroom for weeks while her husband left meals at the doorstep and her teenage son could only wave through a window. “He whipped that mask off. It’s not been 10 days, it’s not been two weeks. If he’s positive, then he just exposed everybody.”

After Ms. Hill got sick, compounding a pre-existing heart condition, her doctors pumped her with steroids and antibiotics. She did not have access to experimental treatment, she said, something she would have welcomed.

“Don’t fear Covid? Tell that to the ones who died, the ones who buried family members, the ones with empty seats at their dining room tables, and all of us who are still suffering,” said Ms. Hill, who is nearly 200 days into her illness and still experiencing fevers and vacillating blood pressure. She plans to support Joseph R. Biden Jr. in November.

California colleges caught off guard by COVID-19 outbreaks – Los Angeles Times

USC has tried to wrangle the thousands of students living on the blocks around its campus south of downtown Los Angeles despite there being no in-person classes.

“We’re actively doing outreach to students living around campus to encourage them to get tested weekly,” said Dr. Sarah Van Orman, associate vice provost for student affairs and chief health officer.

About 3,000 students have been tested weekly for the virus, and the university has a team of about 30 contact tracers working to identify close contacts of those who test positive.

The steps have failed to stop the virus. With more than 500 cases reported since early July, the school has had about 2,000 students living at some point in isolation facilities or quarantined. The infections among students have been linked largely to parties and other off-campus gatherings, and officials are trying to enforce restrictions beyond campus borders. Students who disobey rules prohibiting large gatherings, for example, face potential discipline, including expulsion.

Source: California colleges caught off guard by COVID-19 outbreaks – Los Angeles Times

Class warfare intensifies as labor rights violated around the world

Systemic Disorder

As bad as conditions have traditionally been for labor worldwide, 2020 has seen conditions deteriorate even more. As in past years, there is not a single country on Earth that fully protects workers’ rights. And although every country continues to violate labor rights, the extent of those violations grows, continuing a sad pattern of class warfare.

The International Trade Union Confederation has issued its annual Global Rights Index, and only 12 countries managed to be listed in the Index’s top ranking, the countries that are merely “sporadic” violators of rights. But those countries are hardly paradises (this is capitalism, after all). One of those dozen, the Netherlands, had no less than seven of its corporations listed among companies violating workers’ rights. Those were not necessarily isolated instances. The report said, “In the Netherlands, unions observed an increasing trend to shift from sectoral agreements to company agreements with the…

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Open Thread | Just One Story of 200,000 | 3CHICSPOLITICO

As this disease has ravaged this country, it’s easy for the death toll to just be numbers. But, they were people, like you and me, and their lives had meaning. COVID-19 and what happened to this gentleman because of the malice and incompetence of this Administration 😠   https://twitter.com/newsbysamuels/status/1313521567306059781 https://twitter.com/newsbysamuels/status/1313521571659743232 https://twitter.com/newsbysamuels/status/1313521574390177792 So much in this…
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When is the vice-presidential debate? Here’s what we know about the clash between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence – ABC News

The world got a sharp reminder of why the US vice-president is important this week. The two people hoping to be the next one are about to face off on the debate. Here’s what you need to know.
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Amanda Kloots Responds To Trump’s COVID-19 Tweet

To all the over 208,000 Americans who lost loved ones to this virus — I stand by you, with you, holding your hand. Unfortunately it did dominate our lives didn’t it? It dominated Nick’s family’s lives and my family’s lives. I guess we “let it” — like it was our choice?? Unfortunately not everyone is lucky enough to spend two days in the hospital. I cried next to my husband for 95 days watching what COVID did to the person I love. It IS something to be afraid of. After you see the person you love the most die from this disease you would never say what this tweet says. There is no empathy to all the lives lost. He is bragging instead. It is sad. It is hurtful. It is disgraceful.

Source: Amanda Kloots Responds To Trump’s COVID-19 Tweet