Capitalism May Not Survive Long COVID

Odd that many people haven’t even heard of it

Glen Hendrix
7 min readDec 2, 2022
Photo by Brian McGowan on Unsplash

How we got here

A timeline of the total ineptitude of Donald Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans is here. He literally threw Obama’s well-funded, well thought out pandemic playbook in the trash to wing it. Enough about Trump.

Two hundred thirty-one million Americans, possibly more, infected with COVID-19.

Donald Trump, although the largest factor, was not the only culprit in the early spread of COVID-19 in the United States. The CDC told people not to wear masks in the beginning. This was actually to save the available masks for health care workers, but it backfired. The impression the general public got was that masks weren’t effective.

Long COVID may represent a significant downturn in the world population and economy.

When Biden tried to get big companies to require mandatory vaccination, a conservative laden Supreme Court blocked it in January of 2022. It had been Mitch McConnell’s dream to have a Republican Supreme Court. He finally got it, and it’s doing its best to take down America. Eighty nine million Americans would have been protected from getting or spreading the disease. The Supreme Court

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