How to End the Pandemic

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Herainestold
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How to End the Pandemic

Post by Herainestold » Mon Oct 18, 2021 10:43 pm

Covid Eradication.
I thought the zero covid ship had sailed, but some groups are pushing covid eradication, which I think is the same thing.
If anybody is interested there is a webinar coming up October 24 sponsored by wsws.org. The only participant I recognize is
Dr Eric Feigl-Ding, some of whose predictions have been prescient.
Irresponsible and even criminal policies have allowed the virus to spread and mutate. The governments of Boris Johnson in the UK, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and others are pursuing a policy of “herd immunity,” that is, the deliberate mass infection of the population. In the US, the claim of the Biden administration that inadequate “mitigation” measures, combined with vaccinations, can stop the pandemic, is belied by the enormous surge in cases and deaths. In Australia and New Zealand, enormous pressure is being brought to bear on governments to remove travel and other restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19.
The pandemic can and must be stopped. Leading scientists insist that the only feasible and effective strategy is eradication, which 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.
This webinar will explain the case for eradication and provide the public with the critical knowledge necessary to develop a broad-based and international movement to end the pandemic and reclaim the future.
https://www.wsws.org/en/special/pages/h ... ation.html
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Re: How to End the Pandemic

Post by WFJ » Tue Oct 19, 2021 12:30 am

Eradication is not a strategy, it's a goal, and not a realistic one.

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Re: How to End the Pandemic

Post by Millennie Al » Tue Oct 19, 2021 1:14 am

From https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/0 ... s-a21.html
The implementation of the eradication strategy requires the development of a powerful international and unified mass movement of the working class. Only a mass movement that is not driven by the profit motive and fettered to the obsessive pursuit of personal wealth can generate the social force required to compel a change in policy.
so it's a completely stupid idea which can only work if everyone agrees on something that everyone most certainly will not agree on.

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Re: How to End the Pandemic

Post by Herainestold » Tue Oct 19, 2021 2:49 am

Millennie Al wrote:
Tue Oct 19, 2021 1:14 am
From https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/0 ... s-a21.html
The implementation of the eradication strategy requires the development of a powerful international and unified mass movement of the working class. Only a mass movement that is not driven by the profit motive and fettered to the obsessive pursuit of personal wealth can generate the social force required to compel a change in policy.
so it's a completely stupid idea which can only work if everyone agrees on something that everyone most certainly will not agree on.
One of these days the working class is going to unite and then you will all be in trouble.

I think its too late to be pushing an eradication strategy so I was surprised to see this.
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Re: How to End the Pandemic

Post by bob sterman » Tue Oct 19, 2021 7:56 am

Herainestold wrote:
Tue Oct 19, 2021 2:49 am
One of these days the working class is going to unite and then you will all be in trouble.
Comrade,

Some people have described a serious "lockdown" as when wealthy people stay home and working class people deliver stuff to them.

Do you expect working class people to unite around more of that?

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Re: How to End the Pandemic

Post by Herainestold » Wed Oct 20, 2021 10:17 pm

bob sterman wrote:
Tue Oct 19, 2021 7:56 am
Herainestold wrote:
Tue Oct 19, 2021 2:49 am
One of these days the working class is going to unite and then you will all be in trouble.
Comrade,

Some people have described a serious "lockdown" as when wealthy people stay home and working class people deliver stuff to them.

Do you expect working class people to unite around more of that?
We have been waiting for the working class to unite for generations now. I am sure it is about to happen.
One thing about being involved in left of centre politics,is you sure hear a lot of Marxist wibble, its like a catechism, something to say instead of doing something.

A lockdown is a national emergency and an equitable one would involve doubling the pay of essential workers for the duration, increasing furlough compensation for people at home, and taxing the stay at home knowledge workers. "Leveling up", if you will.

A lockdown is really the only way to slow down community transmission, it is effective but should be used with discretion.

These "End the Pandemic" activists are locking the barn door after the horses have left. Its too late to eliminate the virus, but some of the techniques they are advocating could be used to mitigate the crisis before we end up in another winter of discontent.
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