i've been watching and reading leo panitch for years and, while i didn't always agree with him, i'm sorry to see him go. when you have the kind of cancer he had, fighting off things like covid-19 becomes difficult to impossible. it's the same thing with aids; when you have aids, you end up dying of the common cold because your immune system just stops working. but, that's just the point - there's a group of very vulnerable people out there that we've just flat out failed to keep protected from this. how a man who was unable to generate white blood cells due to a known pre-existing condition was allowed to contract any viral disease in the setting of a hospital is beyond me. and, i get that it's hard. but, this is what we're dealing with.