yet seen so differently, depending upon whether it has, or has not, taken one of your loved ones - for me, it is all too real and I still worry about those it may yet take.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/11/what-do-we-do-about-covid-now
"If I look at the mass, I will never act," Mother Teresa once said. "If I look at the one, I will." During the pandemic, we've all grappled with this dynamic. Our country is on the cusp of a grim milestone: soon, a million people in the United States will have died of COVID-19. Yet for many Americans this reality seems vague, abstract-a group problem for which we must take individual responsibility. We struggle to see the crisis we're in.
Part of the problem is fatigue. Another is that the coronavirus has exacted its toll unevenly. COVID is relatively unthreatening to younger people, but has killed one in seventy-five older Americans; residents of long-term-care facilities make up less than three per cent of the population, but have accounted for about one in five COVID deaths. The death rate for Blacks and Hispanics has been twice that for whites. And, owing to divergent immunization rates, people in the reddest counties have been dying at more than three times the rate of those in the bluest. For some of us, the pandemic may feel over, but more Americans died of COVID in 2021 than in 2020. So far in 2022, the virus has taken another hundred and thirty thousand lives.
Please, be careful, everyone |