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Retraumatized: COVID-19, the Specter of HIV/AIDS, and Reorienting Responsibility

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  • Sana Loue

    (Professor PhD, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Office for Faculty Development and Diversity, BRB-110E, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 USA)

  • Erin Lamb

    (Ph.D., Faculty Lead of the Humanities Pathway; Visiting Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, USA)

Abstract

We are assaulted each day with news of more COVID-19 deaths, more infections, new complications. Loved ones die unable to say goodbye, their bodies waiting for burial in refrigerated trucks as the morgues are full. In the United States, our federal government’s indifference—symbolized by our president’s months-long refusal to wear a mask—is amplified through White House news briefings that make clear that the deaths due to COVID-19 are merely the cost of doing business (Walters & Graham, 2020). The missteps of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) diminished our country’s readiness to address this unseen onslaught. Initial characterizations of the coronavirus as only lethal for old people contributed to sluggish reactions among governments and a false sense of security for those not old (Fraser et al., 2020). Religious leaders suggest that those who become infected are less than morally worthy (Merritt, 2020). And the brunt of the disease is falling on those who most often experience the injustice of and marginalization by our society—persons of color, homeless, incarcerated.

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  • Sana Loue & Erin Lamb, 2020. "Retraumatized: COVID-19, the Specter of HIV/AIDS, and Reorienting Responsibility," Logos Universalitate Mentalitate Educatie Noutate - Sectiunea Filosofie si Stiinte umaniste/ Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty - Section: Philosophy and Humanistic Sciences, Editura Lumen, Department of Economics, vol. 8(1), pages 01-07, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:lum:rev16f:v:8:y:2020:i:1:p:01-07
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18662/lumenphs/8.1/31
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    Keywords

    HIV/AIDS; COVID-19; responsibility;
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    • A23 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Graduate

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