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It's pretty common to hear heart-warming statements of social solidarity these days of pandemic but like pandemics of times past, though anyone can be infected the fatal consequences are tilted against the poor, as recent COVID demographics have clearly shown. The poor and socially excluded are worst hit as inequality does the tilting. The only difference from the "old normal" is that COVID outcomes arrive quicker than the usually drawn out daily grind of stress and shortage that is the norm for the socio-economically excluded, aka the poor. Our primary need for avoiding future pandemics and their unbalanced results,TorontotheBetter affirms, is to rid ourselves of inequaliity, combining private and public sectors in an organic social economy where human need is the overriding priority.