Dr. Shares Important Information: Breathing With Coronavirus

More than once in my life, from the orderly, to the admissions people to the nurses and doctors, I have experienced the best aspects of human nature, compassion, solidarity, kindness, when I've found myself on a gurney in a hospital. At our weakest an most vulnerable moments, these workers are there and they work under extreme conditions a lot of the time especially now.

And in anticipation of someone reminding us of the terrible time they had, nothing is perfect, nothing works 100 percent of the time so there are exceptions. But in the main, and this is especially so in countries where there is a national health service, nurses and doctors for one don't enter in to this field to get rich, to become entreprenuers'. It's not a business in the way it is in the US. And the response to the coronavurus pandemic reveals the inefficient, expensive and disastrous market based US system.

A neighbor of mine was talking about how bad the British system is arguing that if you don't pay for something you get shoddy treatment. This is a working class mother arguing that the market is better, in health care and education. Public education "doesn't work" she said, because nothing is free. I agreed there are problems with public education and the British national health system and asked her why she thought that was. It was not possible to get her to understand a basic argument that if you don't put gas in a car it won't run. You don't fund a health service it cannot provide social health care. And this is what the plan is of course, privatize it. The propaganda of the market and the mass capitalist media is very strong here and just as an example, the heads of the 14 million strong organized labor movement are, with one exception as fat as I can see, silent as lambs. It's no wonder the ideology of the market dominates, but this pandemic is undermining it; exposing it's weakness and inefficiency. What's the saying, ;learning the hard way?