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Evan Blake Profile picture
@EvanBlake17
May 11 • 16 tweets • 8 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
I interviewed @MeetJess on the death of 6-year-old Jimari Williams from a “mystery illness” in Detroit & the broader context of governments dismantling all mitigation measures to slow the spread of #COVID19 and other pathogens. A🧵of key quotes. 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
"Until an autopsy is done, we can’t say for certain whether he died of COVID or another illness. Will we ever know what happened to this child? I don’t know. But why haven’t they brought back masks into the school? " #BringBackMasks 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
"We know that COVID can damage the immune system... Jimari’s death could have been brought on by COVID, or perhaps past COVID infections could have made this H. influenzae infection worse than it would have been otherwise." 3/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
"We’re not even communicating things to people anymore, which should be the basis of feeling safe. Based on your reports, the parents seem to have been left completely in the dark... It’s all part of 'living with this virus.'" 4/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
"I see a lot of adults saying their children are hospitalized and they don’t know why, but they aren’t testing them for COVID because they think the pandemic is over. It seems to have been erased from people’s memory that we’re still in a pandemic." 5/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
"The messaging that people are hearing is that the pandemic is over, which is really dangerous. Senior citizens, who might not be on social media, might believe in “hybrid immunity” and other lies." 6/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
"They’re creating a dangerous precedent. Already people were relaxed and now they’re saying it’s over. There’s no more rapid testing, etc. They’re just “culling the herd,” pushing people to their deaths, and it’s really monstrous." 7/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
"I think future pandemics will be met with an excellent response by the ruling elites for themselves, as we saw with #DavosSafe, where at this year’s Davos World Economic Forum the elites used every mitigation measure available to protect themselves." 8/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
"I don’t trust any officials in public health anymore, which is horrible. This will be made a major problem for future pandemics. Nobody is going to see what’s really going on, and there are huge reservoirs for future viruses to spill over into humans." 9/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
"Parents & teachers should demand testing and answers as to what caused this child’s death. They shouldn’t feel intimidated or like they’re being silenced. We need to use our voices as parents. We’ve been silenced from the beginning of the pandemic." 10/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
"As a parent whose child goes to that school, you have a right to know what’s going on. If we’re telling parents when a kid has lice, but not how another student died, there’s something wrong. What is going on?" 11/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
"Parents and teachers should demand improved ventilation. It’s not just COVID which is airborne. Influenza is also airborne. There should be masking, ventilation, social distancing. Closing for one day makes no sense." 12/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
"There are countless ways to safely clean the air. From upgrading ventilation, air purifiers, Corsi-Rosenthal boxes, and even simpler, opening windows. I’m not an expert on Far-UV, but we should be looking into and how to safely implement it." 13/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
"Changes are being made silently and secretly by those in power, they don’t want people to know they’re using these mitigations. All of these layers must be added as part of a broader program." 14/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
"We need to think out of the box, but right now we’re shutting all the doors. We’re not safe until we’re all safe. COVID is a preventable illness, it’s not the same as someone dying from something we couldn’t prevent." 15/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
Read the full interview today at the WSWS. Join the fight to stop the pandemic and for a massive expansion in public health resources at wsws.org/endcovid!

#CovidIsntOver #COVIDisAirborne #BringBackMasks #SocialistPublicHealth 16/16

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May 12
Allowing the #COVID19 public health emergency declaration to expire, the Biden admin has codified into law that COVID-19 will remain permanently embedded in society, continuing to infect, disable and kill masses of people for the foreseeable future. A🧵1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
The expiration of the PHE was the 3rd and final measure dissolving all official response to the pandemic in the US. It follows the April 1 lifting of Medicaid disenrollment restrictions & the April 10 ending of the COVID national emergency declaration. 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
The most consequential was the cutoff of Medicaid disenrollment restrictions, which the Kaiser Family Foundation estimates could cause up to 24 million Americans (including 7 million children) to lose access to Medicaid over the coming year. 3/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
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Apr 27
This image of students masking at a public event hosted by @IYSSE_SDSU has been greeted with enthusiasm by workers and scientists globally. It proves that when educated and provided with a political perspective, workers and youth will protect themselves and others. 1/
In addition to near-universal masking (only 3/120 didn't), we used @far_uv lamps, Corsi-Rosenthal boxes, good ventilation, and testing by event organizers. These measures must be implemented everywhere, as part of a global strategy to stop the pandemic. 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
In opening his lecture, which centered on the #UkraineWar and the global upsurge of the class struggle, @DavidNorthWSWS elaborated the unique perspective of the WSWS & ICFI towards the pandemic. Our key writings from 2020 are compiled here: mehring.com/product/covid-…
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🧵Today marks 1 year since the WHO designated #Omicron a Variant of Concern. This most infectious and immune-resistant variant was seized upon to scrap all remaining mitigation measures and normalize the pandemic globally. #CovidIsntOver #BringBackMasks 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
Over the past year, billions of people have been infected globally. Officially, 1.4 million people have been killed by #Omicron, but excess death estimates place the real global death toll over the past year at 5.2 million, or 1/4 of all #COVID deaths. 2/ economist.com/graphic-detail…
Excess deaths are now elevated everywhere, a reflection of the horrific toll of #LongCovid and the reverberations of the mass infection policies implemented by nearly every capitalist government in response to Omicron. 3/
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Nov 18, 2022
🧵In the past week, the Chinese government has initiated a dangerous shift away from the #ZeroCovid strategy which has been in place since the beginning of the pandemic. If the situation spirals out of control, it would threaten millions of lives. 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
The clearest evidence for this change is last Friday’s issuance of 20 measures by the National Health Commission which curtail every aspect of the #ZeroCovid policy, under conditions in which daily new cases have risen over tenfold since late October. 2/ reuters.com/world/china/ch…
According to Our World In Data, China’s seven-day average of daily new cases now stands at 16,017 and is on pace to reach an all-time high in the next week. 3/
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Oct 28, 2022
🧵The unprecedented crisis in children's hospitals proves the need for a socialist public health program. Children don’t owe an “immunity debt,” they deserve to live in a society which prioritizes their health & future. #BringBackMasks #CovidIsntOver 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
Over the past month, children’s hospitals across the US have entered an unprecedented crisis. They are being inundated with a wave of infants and toddlers hospitalized with a range of respiratory illnesses, well before the normal peak in December. 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
The most common source of hospitalizations is currently RSV, but rhinovirus, enterovirus, adenovirus, the flu and #COVID19 are also implicated, and there are reports of children infected with multiple of these viruses simultaneously. 3/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
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Oct 25, 2022
The #RSV surge, as well as the coming flu & #COVID surges, are due to the capitalist assault on public health. Each of these viruses and other respiratory pathogens, which are collectively among the worst killers in the world, could be eliminated globally. #COVIDIsAirborne 1/
From July 2021: "The impact of the measures aimed at COVID-19 was to reduce the US death toll from ordinary influenza from 34,000 to 600, a staggering 98 to 99 percent. Child deaths dropped from 200 to only one." @NoraDia43199887
@BenjaminMateus7 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
From August 2021: "Eradication entails the universal deployment of every weapon in the arsenal of measures to combat COVID-19, coordinated on a global scale, to stamp out the virus once and for all." By me and @DavidNorthWSWS 3/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
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