It shows that capitalism can't withstand a pandemic very well. It leads to low-wage workers like yourself going without income for the safety and security of the nation, That's clearly not sustainable. You've said it yourself. The only remedy you have under capitalism is to ignore it and let the virus spread.
First of all, I don't think any economic system will function very well during a pandemic.
Secondly, what exactly are you defining as 'capitalism'? After all, at this point in time pretty much every society has a mixed economic system... Even the "Greed is good" United States has at least some government-funded social programs and other public works (Medicare, welfare, the CDC, etc.) as well as financial and environmental regulations, and even the most left-wing socialist economy (e.g. Sweden) still has free markets. There may be a few command-economies (such as North Korea, or Cuba), but the standard of living in such places is generally low.
Lastly, while it is true that people may have economic problems in a pandemic, there is no guarantee things would be better in a command economy, and in fact may be worse. The current crop of Covid-19 vaccines have been developed in part by corporations, in part because they may see potential profit. There is no guarantee that a command economy would have had the same success. (Remember, there have been many human disasters that have taken place under command economies... famines in the Ukraine under Stalin, China's Great Leap Forward, that saw many people die.)
In my opinion, the best option is an economy that is largely free market (with appropriate regulations), that uses the wealth generated by the free markets (through taxation and self interest) to provide necessities for those who would otherwise be unable to afford it. And that's what pretty much all the western countries are doing. Both Canada and the United States have used tax revenue and/or borrowing to deal with the impact of Covid-19, but much of the wealth now used to deal with Covid was generated thanks to free markets.