One Word We All Long to Hear During This Pandemic
Human life has been melted down to data points. People have become percentages. Podcasters, pundits, and peers in my social feeds have openly performed the algebra of how many dollars a human life is worth—whether a person’s continued existence is equal to another person’s business. Our respective mortalities have been reduced to probabilities. Our livelihoods have been dumped into bulk bins of essential and nonessential.