Last week as Donald Trump seemed to be all but giving up on an actual plan to combat Covid-19, he pivoted to declaring victory while telling Americans that we needed to be “warriors” and accept that there will be deaths. This statement was insensitive, incoherent, mean-spirited and selfish in ways that is should be self-evident, but it also raised one thus far overlooked question. If we are now all warriors maybe we should be treated like warriors.
Trump’s idea seems to be that we must accept that there will be deaths due to the pandemic as we open up the […]
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