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blaming college students having parties for the reason the U.S. has been hit so hard by covid is a convenient scapegoat from the fact there has been a compounded failure between our government and capitalism leading to ill preparation for a pandemic that was bound to come
PPE businesses prioritize profits over legitimate pandemic preparation, there is no profit in stockpiling PPE and medical supplies for long periods of time without an imminent threat, because of this, the federal government is tasked with stockpiling the equipment
...which they did not do as I have stated before, the federal government still chooses to not test masses of people as well as refuses to employ the millions of now unemployed workers in federal job positions that could help mitigate the virus
the same thing happens within the military industrial complex, private businesses do not maintain and stockpile military technology and equipment because it is not profitable, this is left up to the federal government to maintain the military. The same approach should have been..
applied with stockpiling of medical equipment etc, but it was not
american capitalism is on the decline and the scapegoating of groups for whatever current societal ill there may be( i.e. immigrants for loss of jobs, college students for coronavirus) is evidence of a failing system
we as a species, are knowledgable about viruses, yes covid 19 is novel but we still understand quarantine, social distancing, ppe, etc because we have dealt with the Black Death, ebola, spanish flu, SARS, and understand what is required to be done in a pandemic
there was a conscious decision to ignore scientific knowledge in the name of preserving the economy (really shitty job because now the economy is even worse off) and the federal government and capitalism that values profit over knowledge and ethics are to blame.
in a global world and economy viruses are bound to spring forth and spread, it was pure ignorance and profit priority that ignored this simple epidemiological fact
the democrats and republicans alike knew of this, they ignored it and profited off of it along with the billionaires who became much richer over this pandemic while normal working class people’s lives were flipped upside down
