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Austerity Has Weakened Our Ability To Fight The COVID-19 Pandemic
Cockburn, Patrick http://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/24/austerity-has-weakened-our-ability-to-fight-the-covid-19-pandemic/
Publisher: Counterpunch
Date Written: 24/03/2020
Year Published: 2020
Resource Type: Article
"I have delivered food parcels to four families this morning," says Paula Spencer, who runs the community centre in Thanington, a deprived district on the outskirts of Canterbury. Two of the families had called for help because they had symptoms of the coronavirus, and two simply needed food to eat.
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There are no signs of panic buying in Thanington, which has a population of about 2,700 and a Morrisons supermarket not far away. However, Nick Eden Green, a Lib Dem councillor for this part of Canterbury, says that the restraint is not due to people being unworried by shortages but because many “do not have the money for a bulk buy and, even if they did, they do not own cars in which to take away mass purchases”.
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