This group is intended to serve as a venue for discussing three major issues: the magnitude of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, the medical steps indicated to deal with it, and practical responses to the new social challenges it poses in everyday life and in the political work of left activists.

This group is intended to serve as a venue for discussing three major issues: the magnitude of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, the medical steps indicated to deal with it, and practical responses to the new social challenges it poses in everyday life and in the political work of left activists.

It will also concentrate posts, comments and threads in a single place to make it easier to check back and refer to them later.

This is a US-based group; anyone is welcomed to join but for capacity reasons most posts and discussion will be focused from a US perspective (particular shape of the outbreak, political and economic issues specific to the US, "international" reports meaning outside the US)