Question: Have you been noticing a lot of coughing and absent people from your work/school?
Bulk: While many seem to have forgotten COVID exists, the virus has continued to spread unmitigated, wrecking carnage on working class populations, causing acute disease, disablement, and death. COVID is a name used in reference to SARS-CoV-2, which stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2. Governments around the world, especially in the West, have encouraged people to remove their masks and have not provided updated vaccines, even going so far as to require people to come into work and school sick with COVID. During the beginning of the pandemic, the CDC claimed masks were not effective, blatantly contradicting the fundamentals and basics of virology, a point they still maintain to this day. These western governments ignored, minimized, and suppressed the direct evidence that COVID is a deadly airborne disease, spread via air currents in enclosed spaces, capable of persisting in the air for several hours. In the face of this evidence, they instead directed their public statements on handwashing, covering mouths while coughing and sneezing – strategies that are ineffective and deflect attention from the main vectors of transmission. They also minimized the deadliness and severity of the disease itself, comparing it to the common cold. They did all of this while simultaneously internally categorizing it as a Biosafety Level 3 – reserved for “infectious agents or toxins that may be transmitted through the air and cause potentially lethal infections”. Many countries are seeing a large percentage of their population being diagnosed with Long COVID, a chronic condition that can last for months or years after infection. Some countries, such as the UK and US, are seeing numbers around 3-30% of their population (US Census Bureau, UK Census 2023), which is accelerating economic decline in both places. Instead of responding to this rationally, most places and governments have turned to denial. We’ve begun an era in which getting sick multiple times a year is considered normal, a phenomenon that hasn’t been seen in decades.
Part of the reason this disease has spread so quickly and caused so much damage is because people are completely uninformed about both basic science (such as what a virus is and how it works) as well as the severity of COVID. Most governments have greatly minimized the danger it poses, claiming that it is like a cold or flu. This is incredibly misleading, as HIV also begins with flu or cold-like symptoms along with many other viruses, due to the fact that those symptoms are produced by the body’s immune system reaction to a virus rather than the virus itself per se. Like HIV, COVID damages T cells and the body’s ability to produce them, as well as causing multi-organ damage and nerve damage. It has been recognized as a vascular disease almost right away but was marketed as a respiratory disease. I say “marketed,” because capitalist governments did exactly that. As we know, disease is a tool wielded by settler colonial/capitalist states to kill off undesirable minorities. This behavior fits the long historical precedent, such as the use of plague blankets to harm indigenous people, extending to modern times with tuberculosis and anthrax human experimentation, as well as injection of syphilis into test subjects from the black population. It was announced almost immediately in 2020 that we shouldn’t worry too much about COVID because the people most likely to die from it are the disabled and elderly. In other words, we shouldn’t care enough to protect the lives of the disabled and elderly to take precautions like wearing a mask. There is no other term to describe this but eugenics, as they shaped their policy around the abandonment of these groups of people. Of course, those aren’t the only ones affected. Stats came back almost immediately demonstrating that minorities such as Black and Indigenous people were being killed and disabled by the virus in much higher numbers than white people, and yet zero policy changes were made. These are deliberate choices made by governments worldwide, but especially the US, that led to tens of millions of preventable deaths and counting.
We are now in the second-highest surge of the entire pandemic, and yet the revocation of the emergency mandates has not been reversed. Well over the WHO’s reported number of 4 million people have died worldwide from COVID, as few countries are still even testing for COVID in patients with obvious COVID symptoms. 65 million are estimated to have longcovid, which is almost certainly an undercount. Most governments have instead chosen to eliminate testing and all methods of tracking case loads. The only reason we have numbers from some countries like the US is due to the ability to test wastewater to get an idea of how many people currently have COVID.
Another very peculiar element of the COVID pandemic is the fact that declassified documents from the US government show a US patent on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, as well as its sequence and method of transmission, which prove without a shadow of a doubt that it was artificially created and then leaked by a US biolab staffed by mostly US citizens in Wuhan, China. Many people are suspicious that it could’ve been either a US bioweapon meant to attack China, or that US bioweapons labs are incredibly incompetent and at risk of future leaks.
If we want to protect the lives of our friends, families, and communities, we will need to become much better at handling pandemics as a population. We will not be able to continue to face future problems by simply denying they exist. Such denial will only allow the problems to worsen, making us vulnerable to future threats (be it future pandemics, crises and collapse of capitalism, or climate related disasters), putting in existential peril our species as well as the other flora and fauna on Earth. We need to be familiar with protocol for surviving all forms of disasters, whether natural or human-caused, as climate change will greatly increase the rate of mutation for microbes and make pandemics a frequent occurrence. Let’s start today by committing to wearing a mask, social distancing, isolating when sick, getting vaccinated, and being there for sick comrades.
Herbal Information: Madagascar was succsesful at running the virus off of their island with herbal medicine. Lets consider that this could be a logical course of action in treating and preventing the virus. Some herbs that have been used are neem leaf, artemisia annua (wormwood), Thyme, Allium sativum, malva, aloe, salvia officinalis, cynara scolymus, erigeron abajoensis, hanocornia speciosa, isatis indigotica, alnus japonica, paulownia tomentosa, torreya nucifera, artemesia caprillaries thumb, angelica decursiva, glycyrrhiza. lions mane and reishi mushroom may be helpful with the effects of long covid, ginger root, lemon, mulien, elderberry, echinacea, clove, chinese star anise, eucalyptus, oregano oil/tincture, horehound, licorice, astragalis.
Written by: Artsy Marxist. Herbal contribution by The Invisible Warrior War Chief Mko
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8519661
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2022.928106/full
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