Excellent article by Violet Affleck about COVID, climate change and social justice.
She articulates what many of us have been saying for years… the pandemic didn’t end because the threat passed, it ended due to public pressure and denial:
“Public impatience, misinformation about the nature of COVID’s spread & corporate influence over institutional public health, meant that, rather than mitigate ongoing risk by demanding clean-air & accessible healthcare, our leaders announced disabled people would have to fall by the wayside”
She’s an incredible advocate. At the tender age of 19 she’s using her platform and privilege to advocate for the most vulnerable in society.
She fights for the disabled, elderly, children, the marginalized, those living in poverty and imprisoned.
She’s one of the few people consisting calling for clean air in prisons as well as schools and hospitals.
Until we recognize that Covid is a social justice issue, we won’t ever beat it:
https://yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a-chronically-ill-earth-covid-organizing-as-a-model-climate-response-in-los-angeles/
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