We have not only failed lower income and Black and Brown communities with regards to this virus, we failed them long before anybody uttered the word coronavirus or COVID-19 or knew what social distancing was.
Kennedy discusses systemic failures affecting marginalized communities before and during the pandemic.
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In other parlance, it is countercyclical, right? When you have an economic downturn, Medicaid enrollment increases, right?
Mistrust amongst people of color isn't surprising considering the long history of structural racism and unethical medical experimentation on this population.
Beyond the horrific loss of life caused by this pandemic and the administration's failed response, the economic consequence of job losses, business closures, imminent evictions, will last for generations.
Pollution is a subsidy, right? It is a cost to society that those that generate it don't bear.
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