It's time that those of us with privilege start to realize it.
Askowitz calls the policeman a “bully” who thought he was “king of the world” but acknowledges he was doing “a worthy job: keeping the coronavirus out of Key Largo.” She admits that they were exactly the people the cops were trying to keep out because of their recent international travel. However, they disregarded the laws “because… well, we wanted to.” That’s pure privilege.
This boils down to privilege. We have the choice to shop at the expensive store. We have the money. We have the car to drive twenty minutes away. We can pick and say: this place is less risky than this place. We are less likely to contract COVID-19 here. Our privilege keeps us healthy.We own a decent-sized backyard. That’s a huge privilege here in America, where many people live in apartments or houses with yards no bigger than a living room.
We can also afford to have PPE delivered: masks, mask covers, gloves, hand sanitizer. So if we do leave the house, we have the means to mitigate the physical risks and keep ourselves safer.My husband is a teacher; I’m a writer. We all work remotely or at home; we’re used to homeschooling . We’re not struggling to maintain lives in which we’re suddenly expected to teach kids we never expected to teach. We’re not wrangling 9 to 5 jobs while trying to do it, either — more privilege.
That’s because we had enough privilege to get those jobs in the first place, be it through education, skin color, or money.Imagine we do get sick. Imagine we do need a ventilator.
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