How'd COVID start in the first place? Why are states cutting pandemic aid? What's wrong with Missouri?

[so many questions!]

Brook Hines — pandemic gets personal. Forcing low-wage and unsafe work by cutting off unemployment benefit is cruel and stupid (i.e. totally unsurprising for Republican Governors).

SARS-CoV-2 origin: US funded gain of function research in Wuhan. Everything we thought we knew about the virus might actually be wrong.

Jeanine Molloff: The Justice Report on Vote Suppression, Constituional Crises, and COVID Karens.

CITATIONS:
Starving people to force them back to work, Common Dreams, Jake Johnson

Biden cuts pretty much all campaign promises from next budget deal, Washington Post, Jeff Stein & Tyler Pager

Did US-funded research in Wuhan cause the pandemic?, Current Affairs, Nathan J. Robinson

Origin of COVID: did people or narture open Pandora's Box at Wuhan, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Nicholas Wade
[this is the first and most important piece on pandemic origins]

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