By Benjamin Mateus, World Socialist Web Site
The recognition that respiratory pathogens which cause COVID-19 were transmitted through airborne mechanisms was a critical insight into the nature of the disease and the need to decontaminate airborne spaces to eliminate these pathogens.
However, rather than initiating a major investment in infrastructure and public health, the current official narrative being promoted by the Biden administration and every other government across the world is that the “pandemic is over” and society must “learn to live with the virus,” which has by the fifth year of the pandemic led to 30 million excess deaths and hundreds of millions of people debilitated by Long COVID. Recent research is concluding that not only COVID, but many respiratory pathogens may cause long-term health consequences and are not as benign as previously considered.
