The event, titled “COVID-19 spreads through Australian schools: Lives before profit! Stop the pandemic!” featured a report from Evan Blake, a member of the US SEP and a leading WSWS writer.
At an urgent meeting of the Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee Friday afternoon, educators passed a resolution calling for the immediate end to in-person to stop the transmission of the virus and protect lives.
The rapid growth in infections this week have not deterred the Democratic mayor and governor of New York from keeping schools, government offices and other public institutions open.
The nearly two years of the pandemic have conclusively demonstrated that a science-based strategy that prioritizes saving workers’ lives over corporate profits and investor wealth will only be imposed through the independent intervention of the working class.
The government’s profit-oriented response to the pandemic has placed the burden of all existing crises in the health care system on the backs of workers and patients in need of care.