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this is the failure of America's oligarchic laissez-faire vs social democracy https://twitter.com/DLeonhardt/status/1277553289178071041

https://twitter.com/DLeonhardt/status/1277553289178071041

Social democracy - understood here as universal healthcare, workers' protections, generous benefits, governance for the common good that fosters civil society and civic behavior - is uniquely equipped to deal with a pandemic.

Despite all the big talk of "innovation" and "risk taking" it turns out America's predatory winners-take-all, tax-heaven monopoly capitalism is uniquely ill-equipped to face a pandemic.

In America we are not "all in this together" - not at all. Quite the contrary in fact. And that is why the virus has defeated us.

something like that https://twitter.com/DUNOTS/status/1277757573207334913?s=20

https://twitter.com/DUNOTS/status/1277757573207334913?s=20

anyways

The virus has defeated the US https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/29/cdc-says-us-has-way-too-much-virus-to-control-pandemic-as-cases-surge-across-country.html

CDC says U.S. has 'way too much virus' to control pandemic as cases surge across country

"What we have in the United States, it's hard to describe because it's so many different outbreaks," said Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/29/cdc-says-us-has-way-too-much-virus-to-control-pandemic-as-cases-surge-across-country.html

So now we wait and hope for a vaccine.

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