The Delta variant is the fastest, fittest and most formidable version of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 the world has encountered, and it is upending assumptions about the disease even as nations loosen restrictions and open their economies, according to virologists and epidemiologists.
Indeed. And similarly, "just do vaccines and individual choices with them and masks" has literally been the failed policy of bourgeois states contributing to that situation.
Banking it all on vaccines -> fucking off about everything else based on West chauvinism (remember Sweden thinking cultural superiority would protect them? lol) -> hoarding vaccines and trying to make as much money off them as possible, limiting supply in both production and trade. People worldwide, particularly in the most exploited of the Global South, suffer from this "approach" to public health.
Don't get me wrong, the vaccines are a necessary technology and we should be producing them at a massive scale with enforced mandates. I agree with parent that socialist orgs should be placing focus on this (and to end vaccine apartheid). But we've gotta adapt to current conditions everywhere as best we can, fight the battles forced on us by those in power while also presenting a clear vision for a better future.
Indeed. And similarly, "just do vaccines and individual choices with them and masks" has literally been the failed policy of bourgeois states contributing to that situation.
Banking it all on vaccines -> fucking off about everything else based on West chauvinism (remember Sweden thinking cultural superiority would protect them? lol) -> hoarding vaccines and trying to make as much money off them as possible, limiting supply in both production and trade. People worldwide, particularly in the most exploited of the Global South, suffer from this "approach" to public health.
Don't get me wrong, the vaccines are a necessary technology and we should be producing them at a massive scale with enforced mandates. I agree with parent that socialist orgs should be placing focus on this (and to end vaccine apartheid). But we've gotta adapt to current conditions everywhere as best we can, fight the battles forced on us by those in power while also presenting a clear vision for a better future.
Solidarity, comrade.