We have housing, yet people have no shelter.
We could forgive the debt, yet people are crushed.
We have money, yet people are desperate.
The virus isn't the problem.
The virus exposes the problem.
If people are desperate in a rich land, the desperation is not the problem.
As a cough is not a virus, but only exposes it, so the virus, symptomatic, exposes our true problem: a theft economy.
It is definitely & obviously a problem, just as symptoms of a disease are a problem.
But, symptomatic, it exposes the great underlying problem.
The disease is a theft economy that can easily manufacture and provide ventilators but is morally opposed to doing so if it’s insufficiently profitable.
Republicans are going to use the exact structures, methods, and societal assumptions to murder the exact same people during crises brought on by climate change as they have during the crisis caused by coronavirus