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Milven's avatar

It's really important to expose the hypocrisy of these "left" or "progressive" publications who are silent on covid. This also applies to many left organizations. I'd like to see that exposed too.

However, I also think it's important to shout-out those doing the right thing. The World Socialist Website and their Socialist Equality Party have been on the right side of this and promoting zero covid elimination of the virus from the beginning. They're heroes in my book.

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Andy Lay's avatar

It's a bizarre world where the right wing business media pays more attention to Covid surges than the left media!

The left just didn't know what to do right from the start. The best course was to choose an anti-Covid stance which was independent of the governments. The right wing seized the anti-vax, covid is harmless, let it rip line and mobilized with the support of much of the rich and powerful. The left wing (unions, parties, etc) essentially stood by, confused, and have still not recovered.

A fascinating question is now - where is this going to end? Currently, around 1 in 10 infections result in long term problems, but this ratio will get worse with cumulative infections.

I don't know myself where we are heading . I can imagine that within 10 years, the entire population will be recovering from Long Covid. Everyone will be in various stages of illness. Truly healthy people will be unusual. This is my pessimistic view, but am I being realistic?

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