As someone living in a municipality where the political elite have used COVID as a great excuse for neoliberal structural adjustment of the economy, I read this as just slightly outside the batter's box, so to speak, swing and a miss. If an undeniable fact that, if anything, the capitalist nations have been under-estimating this crisis and its potential from the start because of the economic chaos it wreaks. Right now, the Education Commissioner of RI is downplaying the risks in order to force teachers back into the classroom despite heightened risks of virus contraction. I have my own critique of Naomi Klein, as do many more radicals, but she did a decent explanation of these dynamics last year:
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