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Chomsky: Ventilator Shortage Exposes the Cruelty of Neoliberal Capitalism
“The depth of the pathology is revealed clearly by one of the most dramatic — and murderous — failures: the lack of ventilators that is one the major bottlenecks in confronting the pandemic. (…)Neoliberal logic then intervened, dictating that the government could not act to overcome the gross market failure, which is now causing havoc”.
Obama ordered more ventilators, but corporate profit motives derailed the effort, leaving us unprepared for COVID-19.
