The main reason why the European-American nations (which includes Mexico) suffered greatly from COVID-19 is because the entire European-American countries utilize a predatory capitalist system that is not designed to handle a pandemic. In September 2019, the economic aspects of this crisis started in the United States and Europe. Central banks began panicking after the overnight lending rates increased due to a failure in the liquidity system. This caused the repo market to blow up; as a result the Fed had to bail it out. Due to predatory capitalism utilizing a for-profit nature, the countries involved could not produce the PPE that was necessary before a pandemic because it was just not profitable.