It hit me today that the number of Americans who have died of Covid-19 is the equivalent of nearly TWENTY NINE 9/11 ATTACKS. It's an unfathomable number of victims, and every single one is a human life with a story that matters. It makes me have to catch my breath.
(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.
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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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