Episode 27 - U.S.A's COVID Response, Capitalism Kills!

The Omicron variant is spreading like wildfire across the world, with over a million new cases per day in the US, despite testing being hard to come by. Workers are being forced to go in sick as hospitals are overrun, all while Biden declares that there is "no federal solution" as profits are put over people once again. How did we get here? Why has the U.S. abandoned controlling the spread of the virus while China has eradicated the virus domestically? What could have been done, and what would a socialist plan to deal with the pandemic look like? We discuss all this and more in this crucial episode.