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I’m having a hard time right now, simultaneously interviewing survivors of severe COVID cases (some who have lost their families) while people (some in my own family!) send me bogus COVID cures and magical preventative measures “no one is talking about!”
I shut these down quick, but it’s exhausting. At best it feels like calling people who got infected, stupid. And at worst, it feels like victim blaming.
Here's the reality: a certain group of people were told to work in a pandemic. Overwhelmingly people of color. With little to no protection. Often no healthcare. Living in densely populated conditions. Now, those people have higher rates of infection and death.
They didn't get sick/die because they, unlike you, don’t know the secret of Listerine. Colloidal silver. Hot water. Purell up the nose. Many got sick because they got exploited, as usual. And because the response to the pandemic has been a disaster.
It’s harder to acknowledge that this is spreading in part because a bunch of us are getting worked to death & a bunch of us are rlly selfish, than it is to believe there's some magical knowledge only you and I have access to. Harder, but I would think, more rewarding in the end