Jacobin Show: Coronavirus Criminals w/ John Nichols

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🗓️ 18 February 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Ariella Thornhill speaks with John Nichols about his new book, Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers. Nichols argues that the massive number of deaths in the US were caused not by the vicissitudes of nature but by the callous and opportunistic decisions of powerful people and the ruthless profit orientation of capitalist society. Thornhill also speaks with Sean Petty, a pediatric emergency room nurse at a public hospital in the Bronx. Petty provides a picture of how nurses and healthcare professionals have been pushed to the brink by an unprepared and underfunded for-profit healthcare system, which has left nurses overworked and under-protected.

The Jacobin Show offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from February 16, 2022 with Ariella Thornhill and Cale Brooks hosting.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the Jackman show. My name is Kale. I'm the producer here.
0:22.5	Typically, Jen would be welcoming you to the show and telling you what's happened,
0:27.6	but she's actually not here tonight because we're not live. We're premiering this and in our absence,
0:34.8	we are actually airing a number of interviews that are good for an Aurela Thornehill conducted recently.
0:40.8	The first is with a nurse in the Bronx named Sean Petty to talk about what the conditions are
0:46.0	for nurses right now and why it is that there's such a high turnover rate among people working in the
0:52.0	field. And then we're also talking with John Nichols, the Washington correspondent for the nation.
0:58.9	He has a new book that just came out recently called coronavirus criminals and pandemic
1:03.3	profiteers, accountability for those who caused the crisis. And so we are running through
1:09.0	exactly who is responsible and what their punishment should be. We like to keep it especially
1:16.4	punitive over here on the Jackman show. I'm joking, can't tell. Thanks and enjoy the interviews.
1:27.0	Hi, I'm Aurela Thornehill, host of the Jackman show and we're joined today by Sean Petty.
1:32.8	Sean Petty is a pediatric emergency room nurse at a public hospital in the Bronx where he's
1:38.5	worked for 14 years and he's currently the president of his hospital local bargaining unit
1:44.0	as a member of the New York State Nurses Association. Sean, thanks for joining us today.
1:50.2	Thanks for having me, Aurela. So I've asked you here to kind of fill us in with your perspective as
1:56.8	an organizer and advocate for nurses and as a worker on how the pandemic response on the federal
2:05.3	and state level impacted you and how it's changed or if it's changed during the Biden administration.
2:14.8	Sure. Well, I mean, I think, you know, as most of us can imagine, you know, hospital care has been
2:25.3	fundamentally altered and transformed by the pandemic and really pushed to the brink.
2:34.8	I would say that, you know, going from the first wave where, you know, New York City where I work
2:43.3	was hit in the most profound way that a hospital system can be that up through this recent wave
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