But in a Larger Sense

this is a Crisis Forty Years in the Making, since the High Noon of Saint Ronald of Santa Barbara, prepped with diabolical fury by the Bushes, Father and Son and now, a mere mirthless senile Birthday Party Clown Falls Heir to All of It.
The fact that that crisis is the Novel Corona Virus, is almost beside the fact, the mania for small government, good at waging war, smacking minorities around, ignoring women and self destructively inept at everything else, has brought us all to this pretty pass.  A Government creaky understaffed, underfunded and riddled with sky grifters and Teachables in High Places is on a collision with a outmoded healthcare system that is mostly geared to maximize shareholder.  Dunno who is gonna win, but right now, my money is on the pathogen, quite frankly I don't see how it can lose given how well the ground has been prepared.