The push to rose-color even the grimmest data stumbles over immunocompromised people like me.
Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19
Since COVID-19 hit the United States, it’s been at the top of every news outlet’s headlines. However, the disparate impact and deep injustices that the crisis has wrought often go unmentioned. So do the underlying oppressive systems that allowed the pandemic to reach the magnitude that it has. Truthout is taking on these injustices with a broad-ranging series, “Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19,” which addresses how the pandemic intersects with issues of social, economic, environmental, racial, gender and disability justice. Through investigative reporting and dynamic analysis, we’ll paint a real picture of this pandemic’s implications — and sketch a bold new image of what a post-pandemic world could look like. In this series, journalists, activists, organizers and thinkers, many of whom have been brutally impacted by the crisis themselves, will share stories and insights that point the way toward a transformed future.
The idea of obeying science when it might cost multibillion-dollar corporations their market share was heresy.
Data suggest more than a third of households nationwide worry about facing eviction in the next two months.
Borders are fictional. One country can’t transition out of a pandemic while others remain mired in it.
The U.S.’s disengagement with the international COVID response efforts is a saga of failure and abandonment.
Rising COVID numbers are still cause for concern. We must not ignore the most vulnerable people among us.
Most Black, Latinx and working-class adults support masking. Most Republicans say people should stop wearing masks.
The U.S. isn’t prepared to deal with future COVID variants, an entirely different pandemic, or even the current spread.
In refusing to prioritize preparation for the next COVID surge, our leaders are sacrificing the most vulnerable.
As we hope for a world a little less dominated by COVID, we must recognize that risk will not be the same for everyone.