WE ARE LIVE NOW!

Join us on Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82658733303

The Covid pandemic is not abating either in this country or globally. But here and in many countries governments have relied solely on vaccines and have otherwise let the virus freely circulate, even giving up on the most basic measures such as masks, social distancing and contact tracing.

This means growth in cases, hospitalisations and deaths. At the same time, the vulnerable and immuno-suppressed have been left without protections.

In addition, the most oppressed in society will continue to bear the brunt of the impact of the virus, both in terms of infection and economically, women, ethnic minorities and poor communities.

The call to 'live with the virus' is scandalous. Millions have people have died, and many more will die. It is unprecedented in the modern era for government policy to allow preventable deaths of its own citizens on a mass scale. Yet other countries mainly in the Asian Pacific have effectively suppressed the virus and implemented a ZeroCovid policy. As well as reducing their death tolls to a tiny fraction of many rich Western countries, they have much better economic outcomes, and much shorter lockdowns.

The blockage to adopting this is political. We need a change of policy in order to avoid another catastrophic outcome. Our meeting will discuss how we advance that fight.

Speaker:

Bonnie Craven, Sutton and Cheam CLP (Personal capacity)

Conor Bollins, Kingstonston and Surbiton CLP (Personal capacity)

Cllr Rohit Dasgupta (Personal capacity)

Diane Abbott MP

Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP

Helen O'Connor (GMB)

Sonali Bhattacharya (Momentum)