Historian here: Comparing "Pearl Harbor" to Covid-19 is a terrible historical analogy; it panders to anti-Asian racism; obscures why working-class communities are more vulnerable to the virus; and erases the Trump administration& #39;s stunning incompetence https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/05/pearl-harbor-us-surgeon-general-coronavirus-deaths-donald-trump-white-house-briefing?CMP=share_btn_tw">https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...
US surgeon general warns of 'Pearl Harbor moment' as Americans face 'hardest week'

Trump echoes Adams’ words in a White House briefing Sunday night, but said there’s ‘a light at the end of the tunnel’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/05/pearl-harbor-us-surgeon-general-coronavirus-deaths-donald-trump-white-house-briefing?CMP=share_btn_tw
We can take the virus seriously without resorting to unhelpful and potentially dangerous military metaphors.
Furthermore, viewing Covid-19 through a nationalist lens (as an attack on the US) is not useful when it is a global pandemic that affects all peoples.
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