How Covid-19 is likely to do widespread economic harm, especially to working people.

Low wages, precarious employment, lack of medical insurance, and homelessness will all compel US workers to go to work even if they are spreading Covid-19.

A government which cared about working people could protect people from the worst forms of economic harm. One recommendation is rapid direct payments to individuals.

The social and economic effects of Covid-19 are a foretaste of what climate mayhem will produce.

Both problems call for global cooperation.