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/
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/
On masks & #COVIDisAirborne: “They don’t want people to wear masks because these are a daily reminder of how severe this virus is. You can’t live with COVID. You can die of COVID and you can be debilitated. But COVID isn’t… something we can or should tolerate as a society.” 4/
On the #ZeroCovid global elimination strategy: “If these measures were put into place on a world scale, combined with the improvement of filtration & ventilation systems in all indoor spaces… the pandemic could be ended globally in a matter of months.” @GosiaGasperoPhD 5/
Please watch & share these clips widely. The pandemic can be stopped, but it requires a mass movement from below, uniting the working class with principled scientists internationally. Fill out the form at wsws.org/endcovid to get involved. 7/
The full video can be seen here with subtitles in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Tamil, Sinhala, Russian, Polish & Italian. Ending the pandemic requires the international unity of the working class, which the WSWS & ICFI fight for daily. 8/8 wsws.org/en/articles/20…
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Trump picking RFK Jr. to head the HHS is perhaps his most provocative selection so far. Amid the 10th COVID wave and the looming danger of a bird flu pandemic, this anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist & raw milk advocate will be at the helm of America's public health agencies. 1/
Last year, he stated, "We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years."
He morphed the Wuhan Lab Lie into an antisemitic conspiracy theory, insinuating that Chinese & Jewish scientists engineered the virus to kill Christians. 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
Trump's incoming fascist government must be opposed through the building of a revolutionary socialist movement in the working class, fighting for a fully-funded, socialist public health program to stop the COVID-19 pandemic and prevent future pandemics. 3/ wsws.org/endcovid
The mass infection policies advocated by this fascistic quack have led to the deaths of roughly 1.5 million Americans and the debilitation of >20 million more with #LongCovid, the vast majority of them workers. To posture as being "pro-worker" is the most cynical fraud. 1/
The WSWS has called for the global elimination of COVID. This requires a massive allocation of resources to deploy all available public health measures: infrastructure renovation to clean indoor air, masking, next-generation vaccines, mass testing, etc. 2/ wsws.org/en/topics/even…
Bhattacharya and the other promoters of GBD have advocated the opposite: the subordination of public health to private profit. Nothing should be done to stop the spread of COVID, because the death & debilitation of workers is viewed as a positive good. 3/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
The horrific collapse of Noah Lyles at the Olympics due to his infection with COVID has shocked masses of people. While downplayed by the media, this event exposes the reality that the pandemic is ongoing and remains dangerous for the entire population. 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
Before the race, Lyles was expected to win gold and set a new world record in the 200m sprint, after he had just won the 100m race two days earlier. But shortly after crossing the finish line in third, Lyles fell down, writhing on the ground and visibly struggling to breathe. 3/
“The latest wave of COVID-19 and Biden’s destruction of public health” 🧵of today’s WSWS Perspective.
On Friday, the CDC updated its COVID-19 wastewater tracker, showing that the ninth wave of mass infection is continuing across the United States. 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
Using these data, @JPWeiland estimates that 760,000 Americans are now contracting COVID-19 each day. He warned that KP.3.1.1 will become dominant within 2 weeks and likely push transmission even higher. 2/
As >5% of infections or reinfections lead to Long COVID, each day >38,000 Americans are put on a collision course with disability. COVID hospitalizations are also on the rise across the US, while deaths are expected to climb in the weeks ahead. 3/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
🧵Today’s WSWS Perspective addresses the growing threat of an #H5N1 bird flu pandemic, which takes place under conditions of the destruction of public health globally. We advance a clear program of action for workers to stop this unfolding disaster. 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
“I am anti-alarmist, but I would say that I have never been more worried in my career than I am about H5N1. Even when COVID-19 had started to spread extensively outside China in 2019, I was not as worried as I am now about H5N1.” @Millerlab_atMac 2/ thespec.com/news/hamilton-…
Throughout the world, in numerous interviews and articles, scientists and experts are sounding alarm bells about the growing danger that the #H5N1 bird flu could spill over into the human population and potentially become the next pandemic. 3/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
After 2 months of silence, The Economist finally updated their tracker of excess deaths attributable to the #Covid_19 pandemic. Their cumulative total now stands at 28.5 million, and there were >700,000 excess deaths over the past 3 months. #COVIDisNotOver 1/
Despite the official cover-up of the corporate media and every world government, the ongoing global wave of the JN.1 variant has marked the 4th winter of mass infection, death and debilitation. 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
By the time this wave is over, more than a third of the American population will have been reinfected with #COVID since mid-October. Extrapolated globally, by the end of the wave there will have been 1-2 billion infections throughout the world. (Data from @michael_hoerger) 3/