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This is not a natural disaster.

It's a disaster that has been profoundly shaped by human society, politics, and economics.

If we lived in a country and a world organized around principles other than profit and war,

much of the health and economic crisis we are currently in might have been prevented.

But the same system that led to COVID getting this bad is the same system that is managing the outbreak now that it's spreading everywhere.

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