I don’t think it’s accurate to say that the coronavirus has revealed the terrible inequities and cruelties entrenched our systems (cultural, financial, legal, educational, healthcare, etc.). Anyone who was paying attention already knew that those problems existed. What the virus has done is to make us pay a steadily increasing price in blood (nearly 100,000 lives and counting) for our collective failure to correct the problems.
It’s a harsh price, but the pain is temporary. It will wear off, likely sooner than any of us would care to admit. As a nation, we’re used to injustice. We’re used to gun violence. We’re used to corruption, greed, and mismanagement in our government. We’re used to poverty. We’re used to the rich glutting themselves while we fight over their scraps. Give us time, and we’ll get used to paying this new price, too.