A person trying to make a living by being picked up at a Home Depot parking lot or picking fruit has covid-19 rather far down the list of concerns. That person

A person trying to make a living by being picked up at a Home Depot parking lot or picking fruit has covid-19 rather far down the list of concerns. That person is also living in packed housing that greatly contributes to its spread. The various underlying reasons that brought these socioeconomic conditions forth (failing countries to the south of the US, exploitation of cheap labor in the US, endemic political infighting in the US, dependence of the countries on these people sending money back) make it unlikely that the US will ever control the virus. It would require combative parties to come together to fix a whole host of issues that they failed to fix for over 40 years. The host of issues have just piled up and by now are a mile high. It isn’t just covid-19 that the US is fighting against.