Since last March, the United States of America has witnessed the date on which President Donald Trump declared a national emergency to contain the outbreak of the new Corona virus.

Unemployment rates are much higher than recorded in other Western countries, Washington has followed almost the same policy in dealing with the epidemic.

Modern Diplomacy said in a lengthy report by American historian and researcher Eric Zoyce that the United States recorded high unemployment rates during the epidemic period, from 4.4% last March to 14.7% in April, then 10.2% in July.

On the other hand, Denmark and Sweden, the two Scandinavian countries that almost witnessed the same path of the United States in the development of the epidemic and its response;

Unemployment rates are much lower than what America has seen.

Denmark recorded an increase in this percentage from 4.1% last March to 5.2 in July, while in Sweden it increased from 7.1% to 8.9% in the same period, or 27%, compared to a rise of 202% in the United States. .

The site attributed this big difference in proportions to the fact that America - unlike Denmark, Sweden and other western countries - has one of the weakest social safety nets in the West, while the Danish or Swedish citizen realizes that his government will be by his side if he is infected with the virus;

The American knows very well that he will face his fate alone, and that he must "swim or drown", and this is the "American way."

The writer adds that, unlike citizens of other western countries, Americans are in dire need of income, because many of them are poor, and a large number of them have bad health insurance or do not have any insurance at all, because health care in America is a privilege available only to people who have the ability to Paying for it, instead of being a right being provided to everyone.

The US lack of a social safety net has caused a massive wave of layoffs for small businesses (Shutterstock)

The suffering continues

The United States’s lack of “democratic socialism,” that is, a social safety net like the one in Denmark and Sweden, for example, has caused a widespread wave of layoffs, especially those working in small companies, which means the destruction of more families that fall into the lower reaches of the American economic system. Most of them are blacks and Latinos.

As a result, the overwhelming majority of the poor in the United States will suffer more from infections and deaths due to the virus, and from the specter of demobilization, homelessness and bankruptcy, which will soon rise to include small and then large companies.

This will pave the way for a massive bank-sponsored rescue plan, such as the one launched in 2009, followed by record high inflation rates similar to what happened in the German "Weimar Republic" between 1918 and 1933.

The continued increasing suffering in the lower classes of American society will ultimately lead to the collapse of the summit, and the US financial markets that seem immune to the consequences of the Corona pandemic are on the verge of the largest economic collapse in history, which will inaugurate the next phase of the capitalist economy.

If this happens, America will become more dictatorial than it is now, and "America after the collapse of 2021" will be closer to Adolf Hitler's Germany than to Franklin Roosevelt's America.

The upcoming presidential elections between the incumbent President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, will be almost worthless to stop the bleeding, because America's problems are deeper than just a bet between "two agents hired by the American aristocracy to demonstrate confrontation" at the ballot box, according to the writer's estimate.