When the Covid-19 crisis first arrived in the west, it briefly seemed that it might be a social leveller. After all, pandemics kill paupers and plutocrats alike, and can put political elites into hospital.
Now, however, that idea seems a cruel illusion. The more the pandemic spreads, the more it risks exacerbating inequity in unexpected ways, particularly, but not exclusively, in the US.
Consider, by way of example, the state of small American businesses. Back in April, economists calculated that the Covid-19 economic downturn had knocked out around 22 per cent of small American ventures.
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