Pandemic's painful truth; we don't value elders

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3. Elders are not valued in this harsh, driven capitalist

society. The ones sought here are young, with energy, health and money to participate and buy consumer goods.

Reaganomics and neoliberalism brought in the private equity corporate owners that own the elder facilities and the deregulation that accounts for the infection and poor care that exist there.