How This Country Fails Its Most Vulnerable: A Field Guide to Our Threadbare Social Safety Net.
The 1918 flu claimed an estimated 675,000 lives in the United States. With no drastic action, we will surely surpass the 1918 toll before returning to anything resembling normal life.
But making my way from A to B
could not be managed easily.
Locked courtyard, blocked alleys, a high wall –
I had to cross or climb them all.
The crisis has revealed structural dysfunctions as well as human courage and resilience, providing many lessons that cannot be ignored.
What does it mean to live in the plague – every day, across generations and without an exit strategy?
Nothing stirs but the wind that rattles rain gutters and pulls on the hinges of blistered shutters. A pair of boots has been left out on a patio of gray flagstones, the mud still clinging to their heels like forgotten promises.
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This is the year when we really learned that not even white lives matter to most white people.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), said that “Congress has the power to address this crisis,” and asked, “Why aren’t we doing it?”
Terror, stasis, glints of hope.
Ghosts of evils that came before,
plague and depression, civil war,
take on new life. So here we are.
A nation could not have been more poorly positioned to fight COVID-19 than by the Trump administration.
We’re in an unbelievably dangerous moment with coronavirus where the full weight of government at all levels needs to be focused on saving lives, and instead Donald Trump is trying a ham-fisted theft of the election.
Do I sound extreme? I damn well hope so. We’re in a gridlocked, post-election moment of previously unimaginable extremity in an increasingly over-armed, ever more divided country…
For the last four years, Donald Trump has made war on the people of this country and indeed on the people of the entire world.