How Did This Many Deaths Become Normal?

> Black children were twice as likely to have lost a parent to COVID than white ones, and Indigenous children, five times as likely. Older, sicker, poorer, Blacker or browner, the people killed by COVID were treated as marginally in death as they were in life. Accepting their losses comes easily to “a society that places a hierarchy on the value of human life, which is absolutely what America is built on,” Debra Furr-Holden, an epidemiologist at the Michigan State University, told me.

This is just silly. Of course older and sicker people died more often, this just simply could not be avoided. And black vaccination rate was very low in the US [1]. The article tries to make the case that the US is somehow neglecting COVID due to prejudice, but most countries in the world are going in the same direction as them, removing mask mandates and generally returning to normalcy.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...

What do you want to happen? We tried vaccinating and educating but 90+% of the deaths were unvaccinated and misinformed, we tried to stop the spread but then Omicron appeared. 1 million deaths is not normal but so are lockdowns, and most of us have kept masking and isolating until they became negligable.

We ignore all other deaths that happen all the time because they are not linked to Covid? They brush off heart disease like “we’re used to those”. What about the flu every year? Car accidents? It’s always been normal that lots of people die. It’s just a matter of category now