You know what you read that and you thought to yourself wait I want a fucking mask what are you talking about it's incredibly

Fucking intuitive and nobody could get a fucking mask I remember for weeks and weeks at a time you cannot buy a mask very frightening time right and it was you know it was an example of the kind of shortages that you have

When everything is just left up to the market. Right.

And globalized as well.

Yeah, I was going to say, like in terms of supply lines,

I'm not terribly sympathetic to the sort of left populist economic nationalism that says we need to bring the

manufacturing jobs back to America and you know capitalism will work fine but one reason why I think it is necessary to

repatriate supply lines I hate to use even the P word in any sense but like it does make sense not for the sake of jobs because

we are against jobs we hate jobs we want to abolish work. But for the sake of like having things

close to where they need to be it would make sense to put like a medicine factory in every country rather than putting them where capital wants them to be because that's the most profitable way to do it at that point.

In the only days of the crisis I remember all

these fundraising appeals to buy masks for hospitals and all I could think was

wait somebody has the masks.

We'll just go get those masks.

They're problem solved.

Well, and this is ultimately, we're dancing around it,

but let's be really blunt about it.

Whatever you think of the United States federal and state policies regarding the

coronavirus you know what the people culturally feel about it and politically

It's fundamentally the case that this has been an absolute

fucking disaster in terms of any type of leadership,

not just industrial policy, but any sort of like

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