Grassroots: We Are All Vulnerable
My latest column from The Progressive Populist:
The poor health of American capitalism is being exposed by a virus that no one expected and no one seems prepared to address. As the COVID-19 virus, also known as the Coronavirus, spreads in the United States, it’s growing increasingly clear that the economic and health-care deficiencies we have in this country will limit our ability to combat it.
As the economics writer Anand Giridharadas tweeted out in March, the “Coronavirus makes clear what has been true all along. Your health is as safe as that of the worst-insured, worst-cared-for person in your society. It will be decided by the height of the floor, not the ceiling.”
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