Man, is it getting bad or what?

I don't just mean that deaths from COVID have crested over 2,000 deaths a day again (who knows how long they'll stay above this level, or if that even matters) nevermind what COVID does to one's mind and to one's body (the effects are gonna be long term and we don't even know what they'll be). NYC just had another issue with a person being pushed in front of a subway. One can never truly tell [1] from online comments but apparently they claim that area is being overrun with homeless crazies. 
If true, better mental health institutions would be something to set up if Neo-liberal dogma still didn't have such a chokehold on many people's thinking. Well those in power, at least. 
Which brings me to another issue, in terms of corporations, and how they currently have the highest profits they've had in years and yet cry foul because there aren't enough workers (at the prices they want... no free market for them, I guess). And then this: nurses left a place for higher pay. Even told their current place that they would stay if the salary was matched... then you have their current employer say no, then get surprised when so many left all at once. 
So what does a capitalist do in this situation? Surely they must have weighed the pros and cons of paying all that extra to the nurses and must have had other nurses lined up? Nope. went crying to a court and the judge did indeed tell the nurses they couldn't just leave. 
Absolutely insane. If you've been paying attention (to this blog, to the world, really), you'll have seen that the socialism for the rich, hard market capitalism for the poors/middle class, has been the MO of our world (most of it). But I believe that the pandemic makes it crystal clear exactly how hard this rule is. The elites will fight for it tooth and nail. And I sense that most people see this and that has a lot to do with the increase in anti-social behavior (nevermind that the rule will simply fray the fabric whenever it's carried out). [2]
So I think in those terms nothing is going to get better, though somethings might (given that in the US at least us plebs didn't get hardcore austerity like elsewhere in the world). 
[1] Indeed, in that specific sub, half the comments are trying to blame the new DA though nothing that the DA has done has been shown to lead to things like this (and the people can't show proof... same goes for the Seattle sub and the "blame everything on the left" that goes on there with regard to the issues and problems here). 
[2] And hs, the internets really is filled with the dumbest shit, like these two screenshots. A person gives the ostensible point that lower immigration is the reason for the labor supply shortage. Okay, that's somewhat fair (and for some jobs there is just a straight up shortage that could be met with more immigration)
Followed by many saying, well this is the only way we get power for labor: no immigrants (or something to that effect). The wages go up when we have less immigrants, and they, I shit you not, show this chart as their proof:

Do you see it? yeah the median wage starts increasing in 2014, when immigration was also increasing. Again, wtf is wrong with these people? I mean, you can make a theory that there's some other relationship and give more proof of that, but when both the charts don't show a damn thing, what are you doing? And the pro-immigration people arguing with said person aren't even pointing this out. They just want to scream about other things. 
And in my mind all sorts of thoughts and emotions are bouncing around like the internet truly is a hell of my own making (Sarte like and all) and the xkcd comic of the guy who can't go to bed because someone was wrong on the internet is kinda true, except I don't engage with these people anymore, I simply get infuriated since it's like watching fellow voters not get logic, but also big time pundits not get it either. And yeah, I understand the latter are paid to simply rile people up, not provide actual solutions but still, it's a shitty testament to the world.


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