Thread by @Andre__Damon

American capitalism demands the infection of China

On Tuesday, @nytimes published an op-ed calling China’s decision to prioritize saving lives a “mistake” and extolling the benefits of “natural immunity through infection.”

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"Other countries can provide a road map that China can put into action. Denmark, Germany and some other European countries, as well as Australia, have achieved strong immunity... Community spread resulted, but it would have been inevitable." 2/
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3/ If China had the same death rate from COVID-19 as the United States, 3.6 million people would be dead. If it had the same death rate as Germany, the figure would stand at two million. 3/

This is an argument for the mass infection, and mass murder, of the Chinese population.

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The admonition of China by @ZekeEmanuel and @mtosterholm is in fact a devastating self-exposure of America’s response to the pandemic. They make clear that America’s policy of mass infection – far from being the outcome of blunders and mistakes – is deliberate.

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Even the authors themselves do not believe their own statements about “build[ing] up immunity” through mass infection. “Neither COVID-19 vaccination nor infection appear to confer lifelong immunity,” they wrote on January 6, effectively calling for a perpetual pandemic. 6/

The policy adopted by China beginning in early 2020 has proved that a country with four times the population of the United States, and the same geographic extent, could successfully contain this highly transmissible disease, even without the availability of vaccines. 7/

By aggressively tracking every case, isolating those who were infected, quarantining those exposed, and selectively closing schools and businesses to break community transmission, China has suppressed the spread of COVID-19. 8/

The ruling elite in the US, made the decision to allow COVID-19 to spread unchecked. This response was directed by the single-minded pursuit of inflating the stock market, with the Treasury and Federal Reserve funneling some six trillion dollars into Wall Street. 9/

As a result, while nearly one million people died, the 10 richest men in the world, nine of whom reside in the United States, doubled their wealth over the past two years. 10/

Despite earlier denials by US public health officials, the policy of “herd immunity,” that is, the deliberate mass infection of the population, was always the operative policy in the United States. 11/ gbdeclaration.org

But the emergence of the Omicron variant , which spreads as rapidly as the measles and has led to a surge in cases, has created the pretext for the open, public embrace of mass infection. The “herd immunity” doctrine has been adopted by the entire political establishment. 12/

The US is demanding that China allow the mass infection of its population and the hundreds of thousands of deaths that would inevitably follow. The American ruling class is engaged, in other words, in a form of biological warfare. 13/

In opposition to the policy of global, mass infection promoted by the American ruling class must be the fight for global elimination and eradication. The experience of China shows that that his policy can only be realized on a global scale. 14/

The defense of the lives of the Chinese working class from mass infection rests on the international working class, who, in taking up the fight to eliminate COVID-19, must at the same time wage a political struggle against the ruling class and the entire capitalist system. 15/