Trump failed in using the federal government to deal with Covid-19, but had no issue mobilising it to quell protests Opinion | ialmarashi
In other words, Trump failed to use power of the federal government in dealing with Covid-19, placing the burden on the states, but threatened to use the military, a national institution, against those very states as they allegedly failed to provide “public safety.” Covid-19 provides an opportunity to ponder the long timespan of two viruses that have afflicted human societies: the actual biological microorganism and the ensuing xenophobia and racism it incubates.
that in our evolutionary past humans were instinctively wary of close contact with strangers to guard against infectious disease. xenophobia is a behavioral component to the immune system, operating outside conscious awareness, to prevent novel exposure to pathogens. The link between disgust, pathogen avoidance, and xenophobia, it is argued, is related to immune systems being more effective against local pathogens rather than foreign ones.
This is not to suggest biological determinism excuses racism. Rather George Floyd’s tragic killing should be a wake-up call to acknowledge that both biological and social viruses have plagued humanity over millennia and that both are daunting threats that need to be addressed going into the 21st century.
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