The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Britain was terrible proof that the market state is antithetical to public health.¹ The government’s initial ‘herd immunity’ strategy was premised on a neoliberal calculus that brazenly devalued the lives of those most at risk (the elderly, the poor, the racialised). Once lockdown was announced, the virus was already pervasive. It threatened everyone – hence the Blitz-spirit invocations of national unity – but entrenched structural inequalities, it soon became clear, were major vectors. The NHS, meanwhile, was understood to be so under-resourced that it needed to be saved by the people, rather than the people by it.

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英国发生的第一波COVID-19大流行是可怕的证据，表明市场状况与公共卫生背道而驰。¹政府最初的“畜群豁免”策略是建立在新自由主义演算的基础上的，该演习无耻地贬低了处境最危险者（老人，穷人，种族）的生活。宣布锁定后，该病毒已经普遍存在。它威胁着每个人，因此激发了民族团结的闪电战精神，但是根深蒂固的结构性不平等现象很快成为了主要根源。同时，人们认为NHS资源匮乏，需要由人民而不是由人民来挽救。