If you've been paying much attention to how the populace is behaving you'd realize that the State is collectively our mom right now because people keep gatherin

If you've been paying much attention to how the populace is behaving you'd realize that the State is collectively our mom right now because people keep gathering in massive groups, showing up to work sick, touching their faces, and not washing their hands. Meanwhile employers insist that people show up to work sick and refuse to offer sick leave. If left to their own devices the populace of this country would all succumb to plague. Who or what caused this situation is of course a matter of debate, as is the effectiveness of government response. In my country the response is pretty inept, but you can't exactly claim the free market would have solved it - it explicitly has not and people from industry have admitted as much.