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"Only the Old and Sick will Die": reproducing 'eugenic visuality' in covid 19 data visualization

COVID-19 illness and death has disproportionately impacted marginalized groups the world over. In the United States, Black and Indigenous people have endured the largest risk of death. Disabled and chronically ill people have continued to isolate as their peers “return to normal”, bearing sole liability for their own safety in a society that deems their lives not worth the “sacrifice” of public health measures. While public and institutional policy makers bare personal responsibility for “survival of the fittest” approaches to public health, data science and visualization has contributed to and legitimized many of these eugenic policy decisions through design tropes I characterize as ‘eugenic visuality’. In this paper, I explore how inadequacies and obscurities in COVID-19 data visualization have contributed to and sustained public narratives that devalue marginalized lives for the comfort of white-supremacist and capitalist social norms. While I focus on visualizations and statements provided by the CDC, the implications extend beyond any individual or institution to our collective preconceptions and values. Namely, unexamined biases and unquestioned norms are embedded in data science and visualization, constraining how data is represented and interpreted. These assumptions limit how data can be leveraged in the pursuit of just social policy. Therefore, I propose guiding principles for a Just Visuality in data science and representation, supported by the work of disabled activists and scholars of color.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10227111

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373448965_Only_the_Old_and_Sick_Will_Die_-_Reproducing_'Eugenic_Visuality'_in_COVID-19_Data_Visualization

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#COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #ThePandemicIsNotOver #Eugenics #Metaeugenics

Got back to the USA from Japan and Korea on Monday afternoon and felt fine. Started to feel funny Wednesday, tested negative for Covid. Retested today and there we go. My first positive test since the pandemic started. Luckily it’s mild. #thepandemicisnotover

wearing a mask is direct action. #antifa #ffp2 #ThePandemicIsNotOver

I was wrong to blame Santa for my Christmas Covid infection. Instead, a big ✨Fuck You✨ to the person(s) who went out in public while infected, and passed it on to me and my family. #CovidStillExistsAtChristmas #ThePandemicIsNotOver

🌷L🏴 @acidkid

#WearAMask #ThePandemicIsNotOver #Covid #BeSafe #CovidSurge #GetBoosted #SailorMoon #SailorVenus

#WearAMask #ThePandemicIsNotOver #Covid #BeSafe #CovidSurge #GetBoosted #SailorMoon #SailorVenus

Are your friends and family acting strange and no longer caring about catching or passing on covid or any other virus?
It could be because of this:
Host Manipulation Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10441-021-09425-z

Click link to read full article and read all diagrams and tables attached to study.

Your friends and family are being manipulated by the virus! Acting this uncaring is not normal!

#LongCovid #SarsCoV2 #ThePandemicIsNotOver #ViralManipulation #hostmanipulation

Your intermittent reminder that #MonkeypoxIsAirborne and that #MonkeypoxIsNotAnSTD
You can catch pox by trying on clothes as well because #MonkeypoxIsOnSurfaces and on fabrics. The only things that will kill pox is:
Alcohol
HOCL
Hydrogen Peroxide (I think over 3%)
Sodium precarbonate (for clothing)

#maskup #maskupbitches #ThePandemicIsNotOver

Your intermittent reminder that #MonkeypoxIsAirborne and that #MonkeypoxIsNotAnSTD
You can catch pox by trying on clothes as well because #MonkeypoxIsOnSurfaces and on fabrics. The only things that will kill pox is:
Alcohol
HOCL
Hydrogen Peroxide (I think over 3%)

#maskup #maskupbitches #ThePandemicIsNotOver

@HaplogroupNews #ThePandemicIsNotOver #Gaslighting @Micheleyee This may be, but to be honest, we really don't know who is telling the damn truth about this pandemic!

If you don't test you can't have results. This is why I say the covid numbers are skewed. If you don't test, and you rely on a population who you have allowed to be lead to believe bullshit like "immunity debt" even though there is no such thing.
And you have allowed antimasking assholes to essentially kill us even though they knew that would be the result (the government knew that letting go of mask mandates would lead to a decline in Maori and already disabled communities, of course they didn't really account for the excess deaths that would occur after an infection but I guess when you are doing active genocide for the entire population including vulnerable communities you probably don't really care who dies.

I want to also address here, all Maori who are actively refusing to mask. You are unknowingly complicit in the governments genocial tendencies. What you call "freedom" your vulnerable family members call, murder.

Start masking. #ThePandemicIsNotOver
#millionsmissing #millionsmissingnz #genocide #genocidebydisease #notmaskingisgenocide

Y'all motherfuckers think I enjoy seeing what new shitfuckery is revealed by more studies on the damage my one infection has caused to my already disabled body?
Lmao

Do not mistake necessity for enjoyment.

This is a public health issue. Allowing people to glaze over it feeds into the denial. If we continue denying it this will never end.

#MaskUp #ThePandemicIsNotOver
#CovidIsNotOver #monkeypox #N95masks