From Studio H3 in the Current Affairs World Headquarters, it's current affairs, your ears, finest hour of politics and culture.

Tonight on the program, we ask what, in the deepest sense of the term, caused this virus crisis.

We discuss what must change about this country after the crisis is passed, and we all share our preferred quarantine coping mechanism.

Your panel tonight, newsletter editor Nick Slater.

Hoy, hoi.

Managing and Amusements Editor, Light of Gold.

Hi.

Finance Editor Sparky Gold. Hi.

Finance editor Sparky Abraham.

Hello, everyone.

And the editor-in-chief himself, Nathan, J. Robinson.

Absolutely.

I'm your host, Pete Davis.

We begin with segment one, Crisis of aforethought. On the recurring segment,

crisis of forethought, we discuss what caused the crisis of the present moment. This week's topic,

of course, is the, I don't know if you've heard of it, COVID-19 global pandemic crisis.

We know the surface level cause of the crisis. The president is not taking it seriously. The president shrunk the CBC pandemic response team, the lack of emergency masks and ventilators. But what in a deeper way caused this crisis? What aspects of the way we currently organize our country, our economy, our government,

our culture, our whole social order led to this? Panel, your thoughts. It feels like a bit of a cop-a to just say capitalism, doesn't it? We've gotten a lot of pitches that says capitalism

causes. And I think it's... If you have a pitch, why capitalism is responsible for coronavirus. Thank you. We appreciate. You're

correct. But if you could hold it. What aspects? Let's unpack that word a bit.

Well, I think there's an element of truth to it. And it's what's the word, Lida, the most

it's a moat, a most obvious thesis.

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