Are conservatives who hate COVID lockdowns and liberals who support them both partly right, under our market-based economic system?

With US capitalism functioning as it actually does in this country, any prolonged lo inckdown or even partial lockdown of bars, restaurants, gyms, nail salons etc will cost workers jobs and causes small businesses to go bankrupt.  Unemployment will rise, poverty will increase, and landlords and mortgage companies and banks will suffer from revenue losses triggered by the lockdowns and partial lockdowns.  But if public elected leaders let bars, restaurants, gyms, nail salons etc stay open with no restrictions, the virus will surge and millions of people will get it, and some people will die.  It's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation -- under capitalism as we know it. Most Americans don't know any other system, many hate the idea of "socialism" as leading to tyranny, but this market-based, money-addicted economy we have just isn't handling the pandemic well.  Don't we need something different -- something that can stop the frigging pandemic without wrecking the economy?

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