The problem isn't the virus. The virus is exposing the problem, which is this: When the choice is between seeking solutions that are unprofitable to save lives, and insisting on profit despite death, our systems of power will insist on the profit and the death.

We have food, yet people are hungry.
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 hungry in a land that had plenty, then hunger is not 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.

Yes. To be specific rather than implicit, it isn't the *underlying* problem. It is the *exigent* problem.

It is definitely & obviously a problem, just as symptoms of a disease are a problem.

But, symptomatic, it exposes the great underlying problem. https://twitter.com/KawaiiFoxita/status/1248589970643836935?s=20