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Subject: [cs_edworkers] New on Internationalist website; A Tale of Two Cities:
Wuhan--New York
http://www.internationalist.org/a-tale-of-two-cities-wuhan-new-york2004.html
In the Time of Coronavirus
A Tale Of Two Cities: Wuhan – New York
The discovery of a new infectious disease now referred to as COVID-19 in late
December 2019 was dealt with very differently at its point of origin in Wuhan,
China and in New York City, which has since become the epicenter. In China,
after initial missteps, everyone who tested positive for coronavirus was
hospitalized or sent to an isolation center. Orders swiftly went out to erect
two new hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients, which was accomplished, within
ten days, from start to finish. In New York, after the governor and mayor
bragged about having the best medical system in the world and that they were
going to “kick coronavirus ass,” the hospitals were soon overwhelmed. A series
of improvised steps to expand capacity – a militarized “hospital” in a
convention center, a naval hospital ship, a field hospital set up by a
proselytizing, anti-Islamic, homophobic Christian evangelical outfit – were a
mess. Worse yet, people testing positive for coronavirus were not hospitalized
or isolated but sent home, where they could infect family members and others.
The experience of two cities – Wuhan and New York City – in the coronavirus
crisis is a powerful proof of the qualitative superiority of a centralized,
socialized planned economy which is geared to fill social needs rather than the
chaos of capitalism. A Tale Of Two Cities: Wuhan – New York (24 April 2020) a