Unfortunately free-market economies are not suited to a crisis like the current one. My personal belief is that communism removes social classes and creates a more equal society. When a free-market economy suddenly says you can’t do what you want anymore, this is hugely problematic.
The government has known that something like this could happen. It has allowed people to scrape together a living on zero hours at the discretion of the bourgeoisie. There is no wonder people don’t have savings to fall back on. The disaster buildings could have been built and mothballed years ago and the ventilators could have been in storage.
Now we find what is essential and what isn’t while the traders sit at home with thousands in the bank looking at every opportunity to short the market or ride the gains to make even more money. Meanwhile the social classes put themselves in the firing line and keep the country going through the crisis.