the first wave’s bed shortage was solved with significant shutdowns in combination with the weather getting hotter and we’re not getting that this time. not to mention regular flu season is coming. looks bad, folks
More austerity will come.
Cuomo in NY bragged to the media that he wasn’t going to allow a pandemic to stop him from budget cuts and massive slashes to medicaid.
This entire pandemic has been a rude awakening for the US after decades of neoliberal austerity in defunding institutions and stripping them. Despite all the wealth the US has, it’s in the billionaire class. Our government since the Reagan era has been pushing their military and police budgets through the roof at the expense of stripping everything else. What we’ve ended up with is a highly authoritarian country with a militarized police and war industry, while we lack healthcare and other benefits.
