{"id":5912,"date":"2022-09-14T00:44:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T04:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midnightsunmag.ca\/?p=5912"},"modified":"2022-09-19T00:34:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T04:34:35","slug":"why-has-the-left-deprioritized-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnightsunmag.ca\/why-has-the-left-deprioritized-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Has the Left Deprioritized COVID?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5912\" class=\"elementor elementor-5912\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1e5e4c00 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-items-bottom elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1e5e4c00\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;,&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-443de7ae\" data-id=\"443de7ae\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63255765 elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile animated-slow elementor-view-default elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon\" data-id=\"63255765\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInDown&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"icon.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon\">\n\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-angle-double-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5a46037a elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5a46037a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-46f599b4\" data-id=\"46f599b4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61e1fb98 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"61e1fb98\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/9XngoIpxcEo\" target=\"_blank\">Photo: Jr Korpa\/Unsplash<\/a><\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-441b5075 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"441b5075\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-44b0c59e\" data-id=\"44b0c59e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ec1d3f2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5ec1d3f2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">9. 14. 2022<\/h3><h1>Why Has the Left Deprioritized COVID?<\/h1><h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/><strong>Raia Small<\/strong><br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/h3><hr \/><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>The COVID-19 pandemic is the most globally disruptive health crisis in at least 100 years. The official death toll is 6.5 million people worldwide; the World Health Organization estimates the actual death toll to be <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-01245-6\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at least 15 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It\u2019s likely that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-00334-w\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">more than 100 million people<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have acquired long COVID \u2013 illness, sometimes serious, persisting for more than 12 weeks after an acute COVID infection \u2013 and we still don\u2019t know the effects of a COVID infection 5, 10, or 20 years later. Length of life and quality of life have taken a sharp downturn in the United States, where I live, with Black and Latinx populations losing an average of four and three years in life expectancy respectively, and average life expectancy across all demographics declining 1.5 years, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/coronavirus-live-updates\/2021\/07\/21\/1018590263\/u-s-life-expectancy-fell-1-5-years-2020-biggest-drop-since-ww-ii-covid\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the sharpest decline since World War II<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Deaths have been concentrated in already oppressed populations, notably among Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people and the poor. Agricultural workers died <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20220405\/New-US-COVID-mortality-data-by-occupation.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at 2.6 times the rate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of \u201cnon-essential\u201d workers; food service workers\u2019 death rates were similarly elevated. Older people and disabled people continue to make up the majority of COVID deaths, and the government-supported narrative that these people were \u201cunwell anyway\u201d belies the fact that the vast majority of them would have lived years or decades longer had they not contracted the virus.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the context of this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu\/2022\/03\/21\/depoliticizing-social-murder-covid-pandemic\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">social murder<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 a form of heightened class war waged by the rich, who are increasing their profits by forcing poor people to continue working, with inadequate protection, through waves of infection \u2013 the organized left has failed to show that another pandemic response is possible, and that our lives depend on fighting for it.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><h2>Fragmentation and capitalist entanglement<\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pandemic is touching every aspect of our lives as working-class people: workplace safety, access to healthcare, school safety, our ability to care for elders or enjoy our elderhood, or just the possibility of participating in social life without risking death or debility. For people at high risk of severe outcomes from COVID \u2013 which includes not only immunocompromised people but also anyone over 50, and anyone who has hypertension or diabetes, or is higher weight, or has asthma or depression \u2013 participating in social and economic relations has become a daily experiment in chancing death or hospitalization. Meanwhile, the political left in the United States and Canada has been curiously restrained in confronting the government\u2019s pandemic failures. Ad hoc mutual aid groups sprang up in 2020 and provided essential relief, but very few unions, nonprofits, or socialist organizations have responded to the pandemic in a way that reflects the crisis\u2019s severity and breadth. Leftist groups in the US have continued to organize mostly through the campaign frameworks of 2019, foregrounding Medicare for All, student loan forgiveness, climate change, and housing. These issues remain important, but the left\u2019s frequent failure to organize against or even name what\u2019s distinct about social murder during the pandemic has given cover to capitalists and their political parties. It has allowed the debate over pandemic policy to occur between the far-right and center-right, and in 2022, the unity between those forces has been realized in the removal of mask mandates, the end of free testing, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-airline-ceos-urge-biden-lift-covid-mask-mandate-letter-2022-03-23\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the subordination of public health to corporate profit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although US President Joe Biden campaigned on a promise to contain the pandemic through increased federal safety measures like mask and vaccine mandates, and to continue the distribution of stimulus cheques and aid, he changed course shortly after the vaccines rolled out. By announcing, on July 4, 2021, that we\u2019d nearly achieved \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/07\/05\/remarks-by-president-biden-celebrating-independence-day-and-independence-from-covid-19\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">independence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d from the virus, Biden declared that COVID had become a \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/09\/09\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-fighting-the-covid-19-pandemic-3\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pandemic of the unvaccinated<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d In doing so, he shifted the blame for COVID deaths away from his administration and onto the dying people themselves. Vaccinated people were dying as well, but that data was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/25\/health\/cdc-coronavirus-infections-vaccine.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">downplayed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blindarchive.substack.com\/p\/death-panel-podcast-covid-year-2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the US federal government<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This inaugurated the \u201cindividual responsibility\u201d phase of the pandemic: up until summer 2021, states had been widely blamed for the COVID-19 deaths they allowed. Now COVID-19 deaths came to be seen as a personal failure of individuals to properly protect themselves. Blaming the unvaccinated for the ongoing pandemic works rhetorically much like blaming immigrants for declining wages: it shifts rightful anger at a miserable state of affairs onto a powerless target \u2013 and away from government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the vaccine was a carrot, the stick, in the US, was the end of federal unemployment benefits. Conservative governors and business owners had spent months <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/azgovernor.gov\/governor\/news\/2021\/05\/governor-ducey-announces-arizona-back-work\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lobbying against those benefits<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, government programs that had <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nelp.org\/publication\/unemployment-insurance-kept-4-7-million-people-out-of-poverty-in-2020\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">brought millions of people out of poverty<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, allowed many essential workers to avoid getting sick, and prevented countless deaths. Yet, on the whole, major unions didn\u2019t see unemployment as their issue. Faced with bad options, most people went back to work quietly, even though nothing had been done in the preceding year and a half to make their workplaces safer (provision of free N95 masks and upgrades to air filtration would have been easy, obvious measures). The capitalist government offered US workers not genuine safety but participation in a national myth of invulnerability. And in so doing \u2013 in pushing to reopen, to declare the end of a harrowing year and return to some form of \u201cnormal\u201d \u2013 they encountered little opposition from any part of the political spectrum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One reason <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rabble.ca\/columnists\/the-left-is-nowhere-on-covid-and-thats-a-big-problem\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the left has struggled to respond adequately to the pandemic<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on a national or international scale is left entanglement with capitalist political parties. While Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau eventually moved to shut down <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midnightsunmag.ca\/fascism-is-as-canadian-as-the-maple-leaf\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the right-wing trucker convoy that occupied Ottawa<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in winter 2022 to demand an end to vaccine mandates and other COVID protections, within a few months all provinces\u2019 governing parties had ended or dramatically scaled back their COVID safety measures, more or less capitulating to the convoy\u2019s demands. In Canada and the US, major labour unions have been reluctant to criticize the NDP or the Democratic Party despite these parties\u2019 abandonment of workers to COVID. In the US, Democrats who are critical of the party\u2019s centrist mainstream, such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have been nearly silent on COVID-19 since Biden took office, allowing the administration and Congress to oversee mass death without serious pressure from the party\u2019s left flank. During <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SkvbuPAdNSY\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a recent public conversation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with Ashish Jha, the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, Senator Sanders began by saying, \u201cWe\u2019re dealing with COVID fatigue \u2013 people are sick and tired of wearing their masks, sick and tired of not being able to go to a restaurant, go to a movie theater. What do you say to those people?\u201d Instead of raising the atrocity of over a million deaths, many millions of newly acquired disabilities, the failure to waive vaccine patents, or the lack of social supports in the form of unemployment benefits, universal healthcare, or free testing and vaccines, Sanders invoked the Biden Administration\u2019s desired American voter: white, middle-class, not disabled by COVID or any other high-risk condition, not concerned about their unsafe workplace or the crumbling US health infrastructure, but tired of wearing a mask and still resentful about their consumerism being stymied in the interest of public health <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/04\/30\/coronavirus-states-lifting-stay-at-home-orders-reopening-businesses.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for a couple of months in 2020<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faced with the crises of the pandemic, perhaps the most common intervention by leftist groups across North America has been to start grassroots mutual aid projects, providing food, money, and other essentials to people in need. Kristen Smith, Vice-Chair for Programs of the Democratic Socialists of America Disability Working Group (DWG), has observed this phenomenon proliferating in the DSA. \u201cGroups organizing in and of their own communities to support each other\u2026what that\u2019s yielding is very decentralized,\u201d she tells me, \u201cand it&#8217;s difficult to share, network, and support between groups.\u201d Such localized responses have done impressive work in redistributing resources to people in need and building new political formations in the process. The downside of this emphasis on mutual aid has been a lack of cohesion and shared struggle at a national or international level. Smith also emphasizes that mutual aid groups\u2019 \u201cacute care\u201d responses have often been very stressful for participants, and a deeper reckoning with activist sustainability and collective care will be necessary if they\u2019re to continue.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comrades today often fall into the trap of seeing disability and aging as personal problems outside of politics or, worse, as personal failures. As Brynne Olsen, Communications Secretary of DSA\u2019s DWG, puts it, \u201cMany comrades see disability issues as identity politics, as opposed to issues of liberation.\u201d In May, the DSA\u2019s National Political Committee (NPC) announced that the 2023 convention \u2013 a biannual event where chapters send elected delegates to make policy decisions \u2013 would be held in person, with no virtual option for participation. In response, DSA\u2019s DWG is organizing for a hybrid convention, with both in-person and virtual options. DWG Recording Secretary Brandon Hull told me that a hybrid convention \u201cnot only supports accessibility for disabled people, but allows working-class people, the base the DSA is supposed to represent and be comprised of, to meaningfully engage in the convention. Many workers do not have time off from work, or cannot travel for financial, family, or other reasons. Choosing an in-person-only convention would exclude many disabled people and our perspective, and would reflect a classist decision that does not take into account how difficult and time-consuming travelling can be for working-class people.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s troubling that the national body of the Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist organization in the United States, doesn\u2019t consider participation by their disabled members to be critical to building a socialist movement in the country. But that stance isn\u2019t out of step with the practices of leftist groups more generally. As Wendi Muse, a history PhD candidate and host of the LeftPOC podcast, tells me, \u201cIt\u2019s hard for people to acknowledge that they\u2019re at risk because of ableism. If they go into COVID healthy and come out damaged, they have trouble acknowledging it. That motivates this reluctance to talk about it on the left. If we frame our politics around the solidarity of workers, what do we do about people who can\u2019t work? How do we frame that? Textbook leftism is about labour. If we have people who can no longer be labourers\u2026 how do we address that?\u201d The fetishization of the abled worker renders invisible other members of the working class: sick and disabled people, and people who\u2019ve aged out of the workforce. It even renders invisible the white, male industrial worker as soon as an accident or illness \u2013 anything from a job injury to depression to COVID-19 \u2013 takes him out of the factory and into the hospital, the rehab facility, the private home, or the shelter system.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><h2>Ableism is counterrevolutionary<\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Left failures to incorporate an analysis of disability and ableism are detrimental to our vision and organizing capacity. Capitalism itself is fundamentally ableist, awarding the food and shelter necessary for survival on the basis of an individual\u2019s ability to work for pay. Capitalism ensures its own survival by turning disabled people unable to work, along with other unemployed people, into a surplus population whose existence disciplines employed workers into accepting poor working conditions and little pay, lest they fall into the abject poverty and exclusion experienced by many disabled and unemployed people. Work under capitalism is a disabling process, as workers become debilitated through unsafe jobsites, injuries from accidents or repetitive stress, and the mental and psychological tolls of a work culture that is almost universally unsustainable. In her book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Border and Rule<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, activist and writer Harsha Walia argues, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn contrast to neoliberal framings of disability as exceptional or symptomatic, debility is the quotidian, racialized biopolitics of &#8216;working and warring.&#8217;\u201d Walia shows work and war to be twin methods of disabling a racialized working class, where people without property are deemed \u201cavailable for injury\u201d either as targets of war and incarceration or as low-wage workers (or both). When we and our organizations fail to make these connections, understanding disability instead as exceptional and apolitical, we limit the horizons of what we can demand, during a pandemic where disabled people are rendered acceptable casualties so capitalism can continue undisturbed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beatrice Adler-Bolton, a disabled artist, scholar, and host of the left public health podcast <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deathpanel.net\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Death Panel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, points to elite capture within the disability rights movement as one reason why today\u2019s left struggles to embrace an adequate disability politic. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere was a brand of disability activism in the US for a long time that was oriented around neoliberal libertarianism. Disabled people need to get a seat at the table, become employed. It was\u2026[about] seeking representation and inclusion as a way out of institutionalization.\u201d Adler-Bolton cites the whiteness and middle-class character of the disability rights movement, which has emphasized access to employment and education instead of an overhaul of the racist capitalist system, as a key piece of history that informs current left failures to integrate disability and health justice into anti-capitalist organizing. \u201cThese movements [leftism and disability activism] have been siloed,\u201d she says. \u201cIf you care about disability, maybe you\u2019re involved in disability organizing and you\u2019re also involved in [separate] left organizing. Just in the same way that it\u2019s taken the rest of society a really long time to understand that disabled people are all around you, the left in the US is playing particular catch up compared to other countries as a specific result of the particular brand of activism that helped win some of the major victories here and those strategies.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In contrast with many unions today, the early trade-union movement prioritized disability as a condition of work. Adler-Bolton tells me about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/history\/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps\/brotherhood-railroad-trainmen\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an early railroad union<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that started its own long-term care facility to support members who were disabled by losing hands or fingers on the job. \u201cThe union took [workers]and their families into this facility they built when the railroad companies abandoned them. The brotherhood formed not just to protect [workers from suffering] further injuries, but more to protect their brothers who were being kicked out of their jobs, and were destitute and had no recourse.\u201d For Adler-Bolton, this history illustrates why the distinction between \u201cworkers\u201d and \u201cunemployed, disabled surplus populations\u201d is false: how work and disability are intertwined. \u201cWe are all sick under capitalism, and we\u2019re all made sick by work \u2013 especially under COVID.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Outside of the formal labour movement, too, a left approach that recognizes the centrality of disability to the workings of capitalism isn\u2019t unprecedented. In 1970, the Young Lords, an organization that fought for self-determination for Puerto Ricans and all colonized people, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zinnedproject.org\/materials\/takeover\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">occupied Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx to demand better healthcare<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In 1977, disability rights activists <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/504-sit-in-san-francisco-1977-disability-rights-advocacy\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">occupied a federal building in San Francisco for 26 days<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, demanding the right to access any service that receives federal funding: hospitals, universities, schools, public transportation, government buildings, libraries, and more. That sit-in wouldn\u2019t have succeeded without the support of the Black Panther Party, Gay Men\u2019s Butterfly Brigade, and United Farm Workers, who provided the occupation with food, security, and personal attendant care. These groups understood that their members had a stake in disability rights, whether or not they were disabled themselves.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The left needs to unite against pandemic ableism, not out of goodwill or charity towards disabled leftists, but for our movement\u2019s survival. Organizations limit their potential membership when they romanticize pre-pandemic organizing practices, where everything happened in person and those who couldn\u2019t attend due to disability or illness, lack of transportation, a work conflict, or family caregiving duties simply couldn\u2019t participate. When unions fail to understand \u2013 or act on the understanding \u2013 that scarce, poverty-level disability benefits and the end of pandemic unemployment supports are political attacks on all workers, whose exploitation happens in relation to the parallel misery of unemployment, they miss an important opportunity to help build power for the working class as a whole. The last two years have been a high point for union organizing: from Amazon warehouses to Starbucks and Trader Joe\u2019s stores, we\u2019ve seen an upswell of new worker organizing in the logistics, retail, and service sectors. Some of that activity has foregrounded COVID safety, as when, in January 2022, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/as-covid-surges-teachers-in-chicago-are-up-against-a-wall-of-neoliberal-cruelty\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Chicago Teachers Union refused in-person work without adequate protections<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as the winter Omicron surge erupted. Those workers organized with an understanding that while they might be well at the moment, the conditions of their work could disable or kill them, and like the government as a whole, their bosses would not prioritize preventing those outcomes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite such powerful labour actions, workplace COVID health and safety measures have been rolled back in classrooms, hospitals, warehouses, restaurants, grocery stores, and transit agencies across North America. We\u2019ve seen the triumph of a capitalist ideology that tells us that if we get sick, we should continue to work, and if we die or become disabled, it\u2019s our own fault. To challenge the ruling class who have made record profits over the last two years and the political parties who manage affairs for them, we need to organize collective action that builds bridges between our individual workplaces, issues, or identities. We need to work together as teachers, nurses, school staff, retail workers, seniors, and disabled people whose lives are increasingly dangerous and isolated, to shut down production and consumption to demand a public health response that puts life over profit. To get there, we need to call the pandemic what it is: an exercise in eugenics, a mass disabling event, and an escalation of racialized class warfare. The left\u2019s job is not to accept the narrative of events that corporate media and government officials give us \u2013 \u201cthe pandemic\u2019s over\u201d \u2013 but to craft our own, showing each other how many more people could be kept alive with policies such as universal free healthcare and housing; abolition of prisons, borders, and nursing homes; and broad mask requirements, ventilation upgrades, and widespread, accessible testing. We don\u2019t need to accept mass infection. To survive this pandemic and the next one, we need to recognize that we all have a stake in transforming this extractive system, and together we have the power to shut it down.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-410800c4 elementor-widget-divider--view-line_icon elementor-view-default elementor-widget-divider--element-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"410800c4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon elementor-divider__element\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-sun\"><\/i><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-153e952b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"153e952b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Raia Small is a writer and community organizer living in northern California. Her journalism has been published in <em>Make\/shift<\/em>, and her essays and poetry have been published in <em>Kaleidoscoped<\/em>, <em>|Tap|<\/em>, <em>Two Hawks Quarterly<\/em>, and the <em>2019 Interdisciplinary Writers Lab Anthology<\/em>. 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