It's because the pandemic has become an extremely inconvenient roadblock on the highway to the eventual privatisation of the remaining public services.
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States refusing to use existing Public Health vaccination plans, created for just this eventuality, in favour of vaccinations at Walgreens or whatever.
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Cuomo avoiding using the NY Public Health vaccination plan in favor of one created by him and his aides. He's had enough of experts apparently, and doesn't mind saying it. He put a donor in charge of vaccine rollout.
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The Conservative govt in the UK awarding 9 figure, repeat nine figure, PPE contracts to Conservative Donor-owned companies that only specialise in party supplies or something.
Anything to avoid reversing the trend of cutbacks to all public services.
Anything to maintain the march to privatisation.
Anything to avoid funding public services (that aren't cops), to avoid hiring people, and thefore empowering the unions.
Even in the middle of a global pandemic they will not reverse course and fund public services.
At the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives.
Government buildings should be marched on.
I think you have it backwards.
The pandemic is a chance to engage in massive destruction of public services.
I mean, the slow destruction of public services has been the agenda since the eighties, imo. They want to privatise them.
There is however still the perception among the public that these services exist in some way, as if it's still the sixties or something.
The pandemic is inconvenient because it breaks the illusion. It shows people that cutbacks and austerity and neoliberal policies have eviscerated these services, to the extent that they cannot cope with a pandemic.