This is austerity being sold as public health.

CUNY will continue to be mostly remote in Fall 2021. Their reopening timeline is absolutely stunning:

https://www.citytech.cuny.edu/reopening/citytech-reopening.aspx
In Fall 2021, “in response to the COVID-19 pandemic” at CUNY:

“Areas such as the Library, Learning Centers, Computer Labs and Cafeterias will not be opened. Additionally, extracurricular activities are not planned for the Fall.”

“Lounges and other gathering spaces closed.”
Fall 2022 campus reopening plans at CUNY: “Strict adherence to social distancing and masking.”
CUNY is critical in serving some of the most disadvantaged students in the state, giving them opportunities they wouldn’t have otherwise. A true public good.

And now those social supports are being gutted under the pretext of safety.
Specifying that this is City Tech at CUNY—the publicly-funded trade school. Which, frankly, makes it even worse.

Compare this to the Fall 2021 educational experience of Columbia students, just over the bridge.

What is being done here is so fundamentally regressive and wrong.
Over the next few years, “public health” will be invoked to provide cover for policies of austerity and the continued upward transfer of wealth.

In much the same way 9/11 was used to accelerate foreign interventions and the destruction of American civil liberties.
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