>Well, we can't exactly prevent people from dying of a virus that's largely outside of our control. We can prevent some of them from dying by using what contro

>Well, we can't exactly prevent people from dying of a virus that's largely outside of our control. We can prevent some of them from dying by using what control of the virus we DO have. >We can enact policies to prevent people from dying due to a lack of basic resources, however. We "can" in the sense that it's technically possible. The present government is probably not capable of doing this, however - they're too entrenched in their status quo and unable to deal with the possibility of things changing. They want to believe that whatever happens with the virus is only a temporary crisis before they go back to "the way things were".