Making sense of the pandemic
- How will country-based mitigation measures influence the course of the COVID-19 epidemic?
- Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID-19 mortality and healthcare demand
- Review of Ferguson et al “Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions…”
- High Contagiousness and Rapid Spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2
- Flatten the Curve
- Epidemiologist Emma Hodcroft on South Korea’s successful containment strategy: Test, Test, Test
- The Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming
- Mike Davis: “The Monster is finally at the door”
- Why We Should Care: Common Questions and Answers about Covid-19
- Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
- Naomi Klein: Coronavirus Is the Perfect Disaster for Disaster Capitalism
- Toilet Paper Wars and the Shithouse of Capitalism
- Against Agamben: Is a Democratic Biopolitics Possible?
- Coronavirus and philosophers
- Judith Butler: Capitalism has its limits
- The Coronavirus Is Killing Globalization as We Know It
- Daniel Tanuro: Huit thèses sur le coronavirus (FR)
- La vendetta del welfare – di Andrea Fumagalli (ITA)
- Chi paga i costi del Coronavirus? Raccolta di testi, by InfoAut (ITA)
- Habitar la excepción: pensamientos sin cuarentena (ES)
Where to find public health advice on prevention and symptoms
- WHO’s Coronavirus disease advice for the public
- CDC’s Prevention of Coronavirus
- Ireland Health Service’s Coronavirus guidelines
- NHS’s Health Information and Advice on Coronavirus
- Instituto Superiore di Sanità
- Covid19Italia
- Stay at home: guidance for people with confirmed or possible coronavirus
- What to do if you have confirmed or suspected Coronavirus
Home isolation
- Downloadable posters templates for those who are self-isolating as a preventative measure, by Chronically Awesome
- Safer Drug Use During the COVID-19 Outbreak
- Quarantine the cat? Disinfect the dog? The latest advice about the coronavirus and your pets
Resrouces on organising care and mutual aid
- Asian American Care Antibodies: “Care in the time of the coronavirus”
- Safety Practices for COVID-19/Coronavirus Mutual Aid Projects
- Queercare resources for how to do care safely
- Coronavirus Tech Handbook
- Sex Workers Advocacy and Resistance Movement: “COVID 19 Resources for Sex Workers”
- Mutual Aid Groups in NYC
- Mutual Aid: How to Build a Network in Your Neighborhood from Medford-Somerville (USA)
Labour, precarity and joblessness
- The Workers Who Face the Greatest Coronavirus Risk, by NY Times
- COVID-19 lessons from Italy. A primer for workplace rights, health and safety
- Coronavirus sparks nationwide strikes in Italy
- Workers and the Virus: Radical Lessons from Italy in the Age of COVID-19
- Sex Workers Advocacy and Resistance Movement Solidarity Fund (UK)
- As coronavirus spreads, housekeepers in L.A. declare staying home ‘a luxury’
- COVID-19 and Freelance Artists (USA)
- Our Response to the COVID-19 Crisis, by Designers + Cultural Workers branch of the United Voices of the World Union (UK)
- Germany promises financial support to help arts institutions hit by coronavirus
- Collective Care Is Our Best Weapon against COVID-19
- L’impatto del Coronavirus sui freelance. I risultati di un sondaggio
Carework
- Time to Care. Unpaid and underpaid care work and the global inequality crisis. Oxfam briefing Paper, January 2020.
- Sveglia all’alba per ospedali lindi e in ordine: l’importanza delle addette alle pulizie
- Cleaners in coronavirus-hit London hospital walk out after private contractor fails to pay wages
Reproductive rights
- Interruzione di gravidanza
- L’emergenza di prendersi cura di noi: risorse online al tempo di Covid-19, by Chayn Italia (ITA)
- House Republicans Tried to Capitalize on Coronavirus to Sneak Anti-Abortion Language Into Law
Domestic violence
- Home Is Not A Safe Place For Everyone
- Coronavirus: Spike in divorces as fighting couples forced into isolation
- Pandemic Inequalities, Pandemic Demands
Drug addiction
Homeless, refugees, prisoners
- CDC’s guidance for homeless shelters
- Specific Considerations for Public Health Authorities to Limit Infection Risk Among People Experiencing Homelessness
- What if you can’t stay home? Recommendations to support the health of people experiencing homelessness during the Coronavirus State of Emergency
- UN Refugee Agency steps up COVID-19 preparedness, prevention and response measures
- COVID-19: Evacuation of squalid Greek camps more urgent than ever in light of coronavirus pandemic
- To contain coronavirus, release people in prison. Do not let Covid-19 become Katrina in Connecticut.
- Le rivolte nelle carceri sono il frutto di crisi vecchie e nuove, L’Internazionale (ITA)
- Coronavirus. Emergenza economica, domenica il decreto da almeno 15 miliardi: stop versamenti Fisco e rate mutui, Il Sole 24 Ore (ITALY)
- Coronavirus Calls for an Emergency Rent Freeze and Eviction Moratorium, Jacobin (USA)
- Hong Kong retailers in rent battle to survive virus, protests blow (HONG KONG)
- Right to the City - Zagreb: “Four demands for the safety of home during the crisis”
Coronavirus and environmental crisis
- EcoHealth Alliance’s Publication
- “The Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming”
- Jim Robbins: “The Ecology of Disease”,
- Robert G. Wallace: “Coronavirus: »Agribusiness would risk millions of deaths.«"
- Robert G. Wallace: “Big Farms Make a Big Flu”
- Robert G. Wallace, Rodrick Wallace (eds.): “Neoliberal Ebola: Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm”
- Robert G. Wallace: “Big Farms Make a Big Flu”
- What would happen if the world reacted to climate change like it’s reacting to the coronavirus?
- Can Capitalist Reform Save The Environment?
- “Study: Coronavirus Lockdown Likely Saved 77,000 Lives In China Just By Reducing Pollution”
- “Coronavirus Causes Decline in Air Pollution Across Northern Italy”
- “Aircraft emissions ‘responsible for 16,000 deaths per year’""
- Eric Holthaus: “No, the coronavirus is not good for the climate”
Socialising and conviviality
- Aplausos en toda España para agradecer al personal sanitario su titánico esfuerzo
- L’applauso dai balconi di tutta Italia per medici e infermieri
- Quarantine Kitchen: Iranians share recipes, flavors, and joy despite the threat of coronavirus
- Clubbers in China are going to ‘cloud raves’ on TikTok because Coronavirus quarantines mean they can’t party for real — here’s what CloudRaves are like Stuck at Home Due to Coronavirus, Millions of Chinese Are Partying Online
- Stuck at Home Due to Coronavirus, Millions of Chinese Are Partying Online
- Arriva il weekend in isolamento: tutti pronti per l’aperitivo virtuale
- Coronavirus, aperitivi e cene virtuali: le app per ritrovarsi vicini ma lontani
- QuaratineChat
Coronavirus, science and technology
Massive digitisation and automation
- The world’s biggest online population is staying home and China’s internet can’t cope
- Data Centers Prepare Contingencies for Coronavirus Spread
- The Corona Reboot
- China’s giants from Alibaba to Tencent ramp up health tech efforts to battle coronavirus
- In China’s hospitals, robots are helping to halt the spread of coronavirus
- The rush to deploy robots in China amid the coronavirus outbreak
- EFF: What you should know about online tools during Covid-19 crirs
Open science
- COVID-19 could kill the for-profit science publishing model.That would be a good thing
- How profit makes the fight for a coronavirus vaccine harder
- Impacts of operational failures on primary care physicians’ work: A critical interpretive synthesis of the literature
- Trump ‘offers large sums’ for exclusive US access to coronavirus vaccine
- The science of soap – here’s how it kills the coronavirus
Open & DIY tech
- Rebelling with Care. Exploring open technologies for commoning healthcare.
- Also available in ITA
- Nick Titus from the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective. Video from the Pirate Care Conference, Coventry University, June 2019
- Four Thieves Vinegar Collective: An Anarchist Guide to Surviving Coronavirus - Covid-19
- Coronavirus Tech Handbook
- Open Source Italian Platform to share info and support for the emercengy
- Biohackers team up online to help develop coronavirus solutions
- How to make your own mask: Hong Kong scientists reveal temporary solution for those unable to get protective gear because of panic buying and price-gouging
- Italian hospital saves Covid-19 patients lives by 3D printing valves for reanimation devices
- (ITA) Coronavirus, a Brescia manca una valvola per i rianimatori: ingegneri e fisici la stampano in 3D in sei ore
- Discussion thread on the fb group ‘Fabber in Italia’ initiated by Zoe Romano
- Open source medical supplies FB group
- Ultimate Medical Hackathon: How Fast Can We Design And Deploy An Open Source Ventilator?, by Hackaday
- Solidarity infrastructure for solidarity actions
- Open Wiki to map, connect and organize information channels, solidarity and social cooperation
Political demands
- Plan C: Pandemic demands and mutual aid
- Plan C: Pandemic inequalities, pandemic demands
- Bue Rübner Hansen’s list of demands
- To our friends all over the world from the eye of Covid-19 storm, by DINAMOPress, (Italy)
- The Insanity of Making Sick People Work, by Jacobin Magazine (USA)
- Coronavirus: 8 demands we should make on the government, by Counterfire (UK)
- Demands from Grassroots Organizers Concerning COVID-19, by Transformative Spaces (USA)
- ‘The Cripples Will Save You’: A Critical Coronavirus Message from a Disability Activist
- Vice: “The World After This”