Noah Berlatsky: Covid's 'viral underclass' suffers on in America. - NBCNewsTHINK
If we acknowledge the existence of a viral underclass, we can better advocate for and implement policies to fight the pandemic. Universal free health care, for example, would make it much easier to distribute vaccines and testing in an emergency pandemic. Guaranteeing paid time off for vaccination efforts, or subsidizing paid time off for vaccinations, would help too.
Thrasher acknowledged that he worries to some degree that talking about a “viral underclass” will lead people who aren’t in that class to stop listening. But he also pointed out that “the boundaries of class status are not set.” If you lose your job and your insurance in a pandemic, you may suddenly find yourself in that underclass. Even relatively well-off people may end up in a nursing home, where a virus like Covid could run rampant.
Viruses, Thrasher said, show us that “we’re not as discrete as we think we are.” Viruses themselves, he pointed out, are living matter that move from one of us to another, connecting us and changing who we are. We can wall ourselves off for a time, or to some degree. But no wall is impenetrable. In the end, the only way to protect all of us is to protect those who are most vulnerable.
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