.thereidout Blog: We know one thing that motivates many people to reject Covid safety measures, but few in the media seem willing to address it.
as the Trump administration trotted out its beliefs for why the death rate from Covid was so high. And that victim-blaming helped cultivate a hyper-politicized, demonstrably racist approach to public health that many espouse today : Covid’s disparate impact on marginalized people isn’t my problem.
Drawing these connections isn’t difficult, which adds to my frustration that many in the media won’t do it. Trump is a racist who oversaw a racist Covid response. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle — a Trump-appointee deemed"not qualified" by the American Bar Association in 2020 — has continued that racist legacy with a ruling we know will have a disparate impact on nonwhite people.
When we see people cheering about unmasking in spite of the obvious danger it poses, we can take some of them at their word that they’re celebrating newfound freedom. But it’s not necessarily freedom from health safety measures; it may well be freedom from the perceived indignity of having to follow those measures out of concern for a class of people they don't respect.
As I noted last month, white Americans have a tendency to reject things that are seen as beneficial to Black people. Covid health protections are no different. That’s neither hard to believe nor hard to prove, but far too many people are finding it hard to say.
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