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A 🧵of clips from our recent video, “What must be done to end the pandemic.”
1st, on the surge of #BA5: “If the pandemic is over, why are millions of people being infected and thousands continuing to die and be debilitated worldwide every week?” #CovidIsNotOver 1/
1st, on the surge of #BA5: “If the pandemic is over, why are millions of people being infected and thousands continuing to die and be debilitated worldwide every week?” #CovidIsNotOver 1/
On excess deaths: “A more accurate picture of the reality of the pandemic can be seen by looking at excess mortality, which is an estimate of how many people would still be alive today if it weren’t for the pandemic.” #COVID19 #EndCovid @UpupaEp55949188 @CyFi10 @MeetJess 2/
On #LongCOVID: “The full magnitude of this tragedy finds expression not only in the level of death, but in the far greater number of people who have been infected and now suffer from long-lasting symptoms known as Long COVID.” @LauraMiers @loscharlos @ahandvanish @patientled 3/
Aim of the webinar is to provide the working class with an understanding of the disease and how it can be fought. -- @DavidNorthWSWS #EndCOVD #October24 
The cost in human lives is the product of a very deliberate policy. — David North. All politics and all policy are in the end about social and economic interests. — David North
The case for #elimination is so clear, so persuasive, that it would at first seem hard to understand how it could be argued against. — David North
Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Federation of American Scientists, speaks to how vaccine patents and corporate ownership of healthcare are a major impediment to dealing with the pandemic #EndCOVID #October24 #Covid_19 #COVID19
"There is so much injustice to this. The moral character of healthcare has been broken by politics." — Dr. Feigl-Ding
"Scientists and advocates cannot be begging for adequate funding. We have to wield political power to effect justice." — Dr. Feigl-Ding
“In South Asia the public health care system is in a terrible state, from decades of neglect and decay, particularly in the countryside.” — Dr. Zayar #EndCOVID #October24 #COVID19 #Globalhealth #WorldPolioDay2021 #India #Pakistan #Srilanka #Bangladesh #Nepal
"Even basic needs like water and sanitation are not met. The cities are covered in slums. Under these conditions the fight against the pandemic is a great challenge." -- Dr. Zayar.
“No mass testing or contact tracing has been conducted. Lockdown was imposed without any aid given to the millions of working masses.” -- Dr. Zayar
A friend reminded me of this story (thread):
A terrible storm came into a town and local officials sent out an emergency warning that the riverbanks would soon overflow and flood the nearby homes. They ordered everyone in the town to evacuate immediately. 1/
A terrible storm came into a town and local officials sent out an emergency warning that the riverbanks would soon overflow and flood the nearby homes. They ordered everyone in the town to evacuate immediately. 1/
2/ A faithful man heard the warning and decided to stay, saying to himself, “I will trust God and if I am in danger, then God will send a divine miracle to save me.”
The neighbors came by his house and said to him, “We’re leaving and there is room for you in our car!”
The neighbors came by his house and said to him, “We’re leaving and there is room for you in our car!”
3/ But the man declined. “I have faith that God will save me.”
As the man stood on his porch watching the water rise up the steps, a man in a canoe paddled by, “Hurry and come into my canoe, the waters are rising quickly!” But the man again said, “No thanks, God will save me!”
As the man stood on his porch watching the water rise up the steps, a man in a canoe paddled by, “Hurry and come into my canoe, the waters are rising quickly!” But the man again said, “No thanks, God will save me!”
