The U.S. will end COVID-19 emergency declarations on May 11
Let me hear your thoughts: is this the right decision?
No, but it's the capitalist decision.
I was really, truly naive way back in 2019 and believed that public health would basically get a blank check to keep the people safe. Where we've ended up is proof that we only have a CDC in order to run cover for corporations and that we are completely helpless as a populace because we have a two party system in which neither party is interested in public health as a benefit to the people.
When Jha said back in August that "commercializing" COVID was the right decision I knew we were doomed on this one. People are going to have sticker shock, even people with "good" insurance. The 7-15 million people who suddenly have no Medicaid will be even worse off.
Poverty or health in the world's wealthiest nation. What a time to be alive.
This will be within weeks of when the WHO, most likely, ends their emergency proclamation at the end of April, freeing governments worldwide to pretend like COVID doesn't exist. I suspect it'll be a pretty wild rest of 2023 from that point onward.
@BE well said. We can look at the real estate and asset holdings of corporations, and the wealthy after their PPP loans and buying things up when things were cheap during Covid… And look at the Frontline workers who got sick and died trying to keep things moving and received nothing monetarily