Reopen or Close Schools: A Lose-Lose Situation for the Working Class
Article from 1919 (mcmxix.org), the new journal of the North American affiliates of the ICT.
The United States is now infamous across the world for, among many other things, an extremely poor handling of the Coronavirus, especially given the resources at its disposal. The weeks after the first confirmed cases of Coronavirus in the country were marked by denials of the severity of the virus, or even of the very existence of the virus at all, by the Trump administration. Any semblance of action that recognized the virus as the emergency that it was, was not taken until early March, by which point it had had ample time to spread across the country. The actions taken by both the federal and state governments consisted of very selective closures of certain businesses and workplaces, a pitiful and lackluster attempt at providing PPE and other safety equipment to those workers that were deemed essential to keep society a