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Coronavirus and the war on the working class
Capitalists and the ‘concerned billionaires’ of the world are clamouring to ignore the health professionals and restore the accumulation process immediately, says ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
A worker sanitises shopping carts during the coronavirus outbreak, at a Trader Joe's in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles

ACCORDING to Bloomberg News, the billionaire hedge fund and private equity fund managers who met President Donald on Tuesday March 24 “are getting impatient with the national economic shutdown caused by coronavirus…” 

They urged that workers be released to return to their jobs from the government lockdown. 

The “concerned” billionaires, along with the president, do not want “the cure to be worse than the problem.” 

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