"It's not surprising that the first epicenter of community transmission in the United States was the Life Care Center, a nursing home in the Seattle suburb of Kirkland. I spoke to Jim Straub, an old friend who is a union organizer in Seattle-area nursing homes, and currently writing an article about them for the Nation. He characterized the facility as 'one of the worst staffed in the state' and the entire Washington nursing home system 'as the most underfunded in the country—an absurd oasis of austere suffering in a sea of tech money.'"
Mike Davis at Jacobin discusses the coronavirus pandemic.
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