Dude was chill, growing and using cannabis in his 80s. A master gardener, he kept cacti alive for 40 years in Canada through nasty winters. He was kind, generous intelligent and thoughtful.
His son caught covid at his workplace, and passed it on to my FIL. FIL was hospitalized around December solstice due to complications of that covid, and other non lethal problems He passed on a couple of days ago.
He did not die, he was killed by capitalism.
Capitalism requires people to work or starve, so they have to be on the job
spreading diseases when they should be at home fighting them.
Capitalism rewards the pharmaceutical companies that decided it was more
profitable to treat Covid than to eliminate it, attenuate it rather than
eradicate it.
The oligarchs that use capitalism to enrich themselves turned precautionary
measures that would slow the spread of Covid into ammo for the culture wars that
keep the working class fighting each other instead of slitting the throats of the
oligarchs.
Yes, I am very angry.
"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."
Attributed to Jay Gould, been around since as early as 1893, so not a conspiracy theory in the least.