In a time of plague, willful blindness is a coping mechanism. zakcheneyrice writes
The food pantry at First Baptist Church in East Elmhurst, which is serving hundreds more people than it did before the pandemic. Photo: Pari Dukovic This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly.
From left: 10 a.m. on the Upper West Side. Photo: David Williams10 a.m. at Grand Central Terminal. Photo: PARI DUKOVIC/PARI DUKOVIC From left: 10 a.m. on the Upper West Side. Photo: David Williams10 a.m. at Grand Central Terminal. Photo: PARI DUKOVIC/PARI DUKOVIC The coronavirus was giving Americans a crash course in this lesson for weeks before the tornadoes came. In late March, New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s brother, Chris, a CNN anchor, got sick with the coronavirus.
A brief accounting: Hungry people have been stuck in traffic jams at the Forum in Inglewood, California, as thousands of motorists wend their way through the parking lot to pick up free groceries. Twenty-six million Americans have filed for unemployment since the middle of March, and a nationwide strain on food-bank capacity has resulted, with demand increasing by an average of 40 percent.
But the suffering is larger still than the dying. Recent polls indicate that as many as two-thirds of Latino adults have lost their jobs or seen their incomes reduced as a result of the economic downturn. Much of this is attributable to Latino workers’ high representation among wage laborers in service and hospitality industries, which have been decimated.
This is where the history that produced America’s undercastes is hardest to escape, where the flattering delusions that neglect suffering look less like personal coping mechanisms than a national inheritance. When Trump’s surrogates urge people to sacrifice their lives to resuscitate the economy, they aren’t just protecting his reelection prospects; they’re advancing a culture war fueled by resentment toward people who’ve long been understood as unworthy.
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