Nothing in recent memory has exposed the utter incompetence of the Euro-American capitalist system as completely as Covid. Which party or politician is irrelevant: they have all presided over cascading calamities, while stoking popular distrust in the very idea of public health. https://twitter.com/floozyesq/status/1344410013750718465
The above article is about the botched rollout of the vaccine in the US, and this line - the last line of the article, speaking of buried ledes - is perhaps the most important:
But it’s been every step of the way, every stage of this crisis. I remember reading in April about the danger of letting the virus move unchecked through the population, one likely outcome being the spread of more dangerous mutations. Wow the epidemiologists were right, who knew?