Not only are these sentences profound, but they reveal why Trump and his minions could not respond to covid and why the folks in OC revolted against masks and why Southwestern America is about to see avoidable deaths. (italics mine)
It also uncovers the cultural and political lies that let fester the racism, poverty, stress and disarray that contribute so much to the epidemic of child abuse.
"The (covid) pandemic has revealed, in the most profound way possible, the interconnectedness of a society that has always been intoxicated by libertarian fantasies of absolute autonomy and self-reliance. A public health crisis demands precisely the kind of collective action that American political culture demonizes as “socialism.” Americans do not like being forced to contemplate the possibility that one of our most profoundly personal qualities or experiences—our physical health—is dependent on that of our neighbors. Our health care system is organized around the privatization of risk and the legitimacy of profiting from the sick individual. A public health crisis demands the recognition that health is a public good—even a commons. It cannot be addressed without some form of social solidarity. That is inarguably true - even “herd immunity,” for example, is unavoidably a collective state" --
from "Democracy’s Red Line," Hari Kunzru, New York Review of Books, July 2, 2020
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