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It makes my blood run cold. Are these numbers just too big to understand? Is it like trying to imagine how much money a hundred billion dollars is?
I personally don't think so. I think it's much worse: (1/2) The people who die of covid-19 are predominantly working class. The people who died at 9/11 are predominantly middle class. Society (media, politics, ...) cares infinity more about middle class lives.
(2/2) Politicians are pushing a lot of wartime rhetoric around covid-19. The idea of poor people being merely material to be expended in a war is still extremely normalized. Thus it's perceived as normal to expend those lives in exchange for "reopening the economy" or whatever.
Exactly. It's so dark, and so obvious, but it doesn't make it any less unspeakably inhumane. I can't allow myself to just think "well that's politics for you" because really, this shouldn't be politics, no one should accept this as the way things have to be.
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