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Small businesses can now apply for $350 billion in forgivable loans as part of the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill.

Source: 43% of small businesses say they’ll be forced to close permanently if they don’t get help soon, survey says – MarketWatch

In Rio’s poorest favelas, where people live in overcrowded conditions and lack proper sanitation, they are bracing for the worst. Buba Aguiar is an activist in Acari who is taking matters into her own hands, soliciting online donations to buy food parcels and basic coronavirus kit – soap, masks – for her struggling neighbours who cannot afford to stop working and stay at home

Source: Bolsonaro won’t help with coronavirus, so Brazil’s favelas are helping themselves – video | World news | The Guardian

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Coronavirus’s economic danger is exponentially greater than its health risks to the public.

Source: Coronavirus will bankrupt more people than it kills — and that’s the real global emergency

Some people have been brainwashed by racism so much that even the thought of a black person having ANY unique skills or ANY supreme circumstance is blasphemous. It’s easier for some people to believe that all wise and mysterious intergalactic creatures from space came and built the wonders of the world rather then the black people who’ve been civilized and civilizing on this planet for millions of years.

Source: “Aliens” Didn’t Build The Pyramids Or Other Ancient Wonders, It Was Black People

Over the 20th century, black people in the U.S. were dispossessed of 12 million acres of land. Half of that loss — 6 million acres — occurred over just two decades, from 1950 to 1969, a period largely associated with the civil rights struggle. This mass land dispossession, which affected 98% of black agricultural land owners, is part of the pattern of institutional racism and discrimination that has contributed to the racial wealth gap in the United States. Many of the driving forces behind this land theft were legal and originated in federal policies, as documented by Vann Newkirk, staff writer at The Atlantic. His latest piece for the magazine is the September cover story: “The Great Land Robbery: The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.”

Source: The Great Land Robbery: How Federal Policies Dispossessed Black Americans of Millions of Acres | Democracy Now!

As President Donald Trump pushes for an end to the nationwide social distancing practices that health professionals say are essential to saving lives during the coronavirus outbreak, incredibly wealthy Americans are eager to get employees back to work ― and some say they’re OK with people dying if that’s what it takes.

Source: Billionaires Want People Back At Work, Even If It Kills Them

BRASILIA, April 15 (Reuters) – A senior Brazilian health official resigned on Wednesday as expectations mounted that President Jair Bolsonaro would soon fire his health minister over disagreements on how to handle the coronavirus outbreak spreading across the country.

The Health Ministry confirmed the resignation of Wanderson de Oliveira, secretary of health vigilance, who had been leading the fight against the epidemic. In a note to his team seen by Reuters, Oliveira said his boss, Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta would likely be fired “in coming hours or days.”

Source: Brazil health official quits, Bolsonaro expected to fire …

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is in a class of his own. He is the only leader left in the world to reject the consensus of scientists and statisticians on the gravity of the coronavirus outbreak.

The far-right firebrand, who was elected in 2018 trading on conspiracy theories and half truths, has dismissed COVID-19 as a “little flu” and remarked that “we all die someday.” He has flouted his own health ministry’s guidance by going on walkabouts to greet supporters and has urged Brazilians to leave isolation and return to work, defying the advice of the World Health Organization.

 

Source: Brazil Governors Fight Jair Bolsonaro’s COVID-19 Skepticism | Time

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