Millions of people died from a preventable disease. Protections and mitigations — paid sick days, masks, improved ventilation, infection tracing — were ignored, since doing anything to save lives would “disrupt the economy”. Now, with millions dead, the capitalist class is short on workers. So they're allowing child labour, including separating undocumented immigrant kids from their parents, just to feed the machine.
Millions of people died from a preventable disease. Protections and mitigations — paid sick days, masks, improved ventilation, infection tracing — were ignored, since doing anything to save lives would “disrupt the economy”.
Now, with millions dead, the capitalist class is short on workers.
So they're allowing child labour, including separating undocumented immigrant kids from their parents, just to feed the machine.