The current surge of COVID-19 is exposing the French website Révolution Permanente (RP), affiliated to Argentina’s Morenoite Socialist Workers Party (PTS). While they criticize the widely-decried inadequacy of French health spending, they align themselves with President Emmanuel Macron’s refusal to implement scientific public health measures necessary to stop mass deaths.

Each week sees over 2 million new cases of COVID-19 and nearly 30,000 deaths across Europe. The seven-day average for infections in France is 48,775. Over the last two weeks, the number of critical patients has risen 56 percent to 2,539 while deaths rose 38 percent to 877. While this upsurge is driven by the Delta variant, the highly infectious and more vaccine-resistant Omicron variant is spreading rapidly, threatening an even deadlier wave. In response, RP writes:

“While the government still turns a blind eye and follows the policy of the MEDEF [business federation], refusing to go back on its ending of free testing, it is more than ever essential to fight for a health plan that is equal to the situation. A plan that responds to the imperative need to break the chains of contamination by imposing free testing, an essential measure to curb the surge in cases, but more broadly by injecting resources into public hospitals, massive hiring and increasing the salaries of caregivers, in the front line since the beginning of the crisis.”

RP repeatedly claims that testing for COVID-19 will stop the contagion,...

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