COVID Isn't Over Pt. II

Recording of the Dec. 14, 2022 Central Jersey Democratic Socialists of America Political Education event COVID Isn't Over Part II. Chapter member Will Silversmith hosts a continued lively discussion of the state of the pandemic and the responsibility of socialists. In this part, we focus on airborne transmission and mitigations. We also do a weather report, describe the mortality statistics for railroad workers, describe some of the ways the let-it-rip concept was and is propagated by business, governments, and right wing doctors. Importantly, we also touch on why the left has disappeared on the pandemic, one of the most important issues facing the working class today. Part I Video:    • COVID Isn't Over Pt. I   Link to slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/... Links to the assigned readings: "What if COVID Reinfections Wear Down Our Immunity?" by Andrew Nikiforuk https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/11/0... "Why Has the Left Deprioritized COVID?" by Raia Small https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/why-has... During the presentation we viewed the video "The Astounding Physics of N95s". Thank you so much to the authors for making such an effective teaching video about N95s.    • The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks   (0:00) Introduction (6:10) California Rail Worker Mortality (7:20) Part 1 Recap (9:42) Reinfections Study (14:14) No More Monoclonal Antibodies (14:54) Current Transmission and Variants (17:00) Latest Study of Bivalent Booster (21:01) Long COVID (recap) (23:03) Understanding the Basic Reproduction Number (R0) (30:55) COVID is Airborne (35:04) How N95s Work (Watching: "The Astounding Physics of N95s") (42:50) Saving Money with N95 Reuse (48:19) Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Monitoring (49:30) Air Filtration with a Corsi-Rosenthal Box (51:32) Free Antigen Tests w/ Insurance + Reporting Results (52:45) Intro to Pandemic Politics Section (53:31) Definition of "Social Murder" (55:11) Destruction of Public Health (59:05) The Eugenic "Great Barrington Declaration" (1:02:59) The "Endemicity" Plan (1:06:00) Children Used to Accelerate "Herd Immunity" (1:07:56) What happened to the Left? (1:14:51) US Left Publications Call for Millions of Chinese Deaths (1:17:52) What is to be done? (1:20:00) Discussion