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So much went wrong with the COVID-19 crisis response. So many decisions were made years and decades earlier that made it far worse than it should have been. This page to keep track of what went wrong so we can be sure to remember and learn from the decisions that killed so many and left so many unemployed and destitute. | So much went wrong with the COVID-19 crisis response. So many decisions were made years and decades earlier that made it far worse than it should have been. This page to keep track of what went wrong so we can be sure to remember and learn from the decisions that killed so many and left so many unemployed and destitute. | ||
= Decades of bad decisions = | |||
* [https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/04/hospital-closing-shortage-coronavirus Decades of Hospital Closures Led to This Disaster] | |||
* [https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1246445485860118528?s=20 Doctorow on scams, CDOs and PE firms] & [https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/04/a-mind-forever-voyaging/#prop-bets Private equity looting public health in a pandemic] | |||
= The Failed Response = | = The Failed Response = | ||
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* [https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/23/death-american-competence-reputation-coronavirus/ Washington’s reputation for expertise has been one of the greatest sources of its power. The coronavirus pandemic may end it for good.] | * [https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/23/death-american-competence-reputation-coronavirus/ Washington’s reputation for expertise has been one of the greatest sources of its power. The coronavirus pandemic may end it for good.] | ||
= What worked = | = What worked = | ||
Revision as of 13:00, 5 April 2020
So much went wrong with the COVID-19 crisis response. So many decisions were made years and decades earlier that made it far worse than it should have been. This page to keep track of what went wrong so we can be sure to remember and learn from the decisions that killed so many and left so many unemployed and destitute.
Decades of bad decisions
- Decades of Hospital Closures Led to This Disaster
- Doctorow on scams, CDOs and PE firms & Private equity looting public health in a pandemic
The Failed Response
- Trump Administration Uses Wartime Powers To Be First In Line On Medical Supplies
- Using the private market to distribute pandemic supplies
- Food Shortages? Nope, Too Much Food In The Wrong Places
The Effects
On People
- Rich sheltered, poor shafted amid virus
- Location Data Says It All: Staying at Home During Coronavirus Is a Luxury
- In Chicago, 70% of COVID-19 Deaths Are Black
