The horrific explosion of COVID-19 cases and deaths that has crossed the United States is in significant ways a product of an economic system, capitalism, that was unprepared for it as it should have been, and was unable to contain it as it should have been. I say prepared and I say should have been and I say contained because many other countries, advanced industrial countries like the U. S., but not as wealthy as the U. S. were able to be prepared and were able to contain it far far better than the United States. Did Mr. Trump have a lot to do with it? Yes. But it goes a lot deeper and further than that. … What this means is that the horrific damage of the virus is compounded by the damage and waste of an economic crisis that has tens of millions of people either out of work or unable to live.