This report was given by Evan Blake to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “The COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for socialism”
Mehring Books, the publishing arm of the Socialist Equality Party (US), is proud to announce the publication of Volume 1 of <em>COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic</em>, a compilation of the <em>World Socialist Web Site</em>'s coverage of this global crisis. We post today Evan Blake's introduction to the book.
Instead of alerting society to the dangers posed by BA.2 and the disastrous state of COVID-19 surveillance in the US, every effort is being made to conceal this reality from the American public.
A leading expert on the evolution and mutation of viruses discusses the ongoing dangers of the pandemic and the unjustified ending of all public health mitigation efforts in Britain and internationally.
A peer-reviewed study published in the Lancet provides evidence that though reported COVID deaths in the first two years approached six million, excess deaths attributable to the pandemic were three-fold higher, at more than 18 million.