The pandemic response failure in the US is a capitalism failure

Many Americans are saying that the response to the global pandemic is the failure of president Trump and our government in general. While this is absolutely true, there is a much deeper truth. The pandemic response failure in the US is a capitalism failure.

It is sickly amusing how those who claim to be against big government, against government intervention are the ones most guilty of screaming that the government should be bailing them out. The ones who want business reopened want to do so why? Profit. They claim lives are being impacted by the shutdown. Why? Because people cannot afford rent, food, medicine, etc. That’s not the shutdown causing the problems. That is capitalism causing those problems.

Farmers destroyed crops because of capitalism. Animal agriculture businesses killed and buried millions of pigs and chickens because of capitalism. While food banks had the longest lines ever seen in US history and millions of families have reported food insecurity. Not because the food did not/does not exist. Because they do not have the money to buy the food. Or housing or medicine. The homes are there, the food is there, the medicine is there. These capitalists are fully willing to place millions of human lives at…