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                                                                                  Jonathon Hayward The Canadian Press

The fact that several wealthy people including politicians have contracted COVID19 because of their frequent travel contacts should not blind us to the fact that the majority of those who suffer and die will not be the affluent. In fact the truth is the everyday opposite. It's not just the travelling elite nor the health-compromised elderly, who usually die earlier than others, but the poor and the socially excluded who are suffering and dying in the greatest numbers. As is always the case, the social determinants of health mean a seemingly random disease is unfortunately fairly predictable in those it most affects. Critical thinker  Richard Wolff explains why in a recent interview at:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/wolff/FMfcgxwHMsXXrrbwTRlnWVnDFzHTTHJL?projector=1
As an illustration of Wolff's argument, people are dying in greater numbers in nursing homes than healthcare institutions because those institutions are largely for profit, so the wages are as low as possible to boost the owner's surplus. However well meaning the staff may be in some homes most for-profit operational systems necessarily do the minimum to satisfy their modest and infrequently monitored standards of care. TorontotheBetter will seek out any homes that set an optimal level of afforable care for themselves and feature them in our directory. In the meantime for help with current stress and maintaining daily fitness check under Health and Wellness in the TorontotheBetter directory at http://www.torontothebetter.net/2tgbd-ps.html#healthcare