AP reporter: Has mass death become tolerable in America?

anthropology professor at San Francisco State University who studies the cultural politics of public health.

Smith said with COVID-19, American society has even come to accept the deaths of children from a preventable cause. According to a recent guest column published in The Advocate newspaper, pediatrician Dr. Mark W. Kline pointed out more than 1,500 children have died from COVID-19 according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, despite the “myth” it is harmless to children. Kline wrote there was a time in pediatrics when “children were not supposed to die.”

There are many parallels between the US response to COVID-19 and its response to the gun violence epidemic, said Sonali Rajan, a professor at Columbia University who researches school violence.

Rajan said mass death in the US has been long normalized and gun violence has persisted as a public health crisis for decades. She also noted an estimated 100,000 people are shot every year and some 40,000 will die.

When Rajan looks at the current response to COVID-19, she sees similar dynamics. Americans, she says, “deserve to be able to commute to work without getting sick, or work somewhere without getting sick, or send their kids to school without them getting sick.”

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二审 杨韬

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