" ..the most important form of ‘social distance’ imposed by the #pandemic was not spatial, not a matter of meters. It was the temporal distance between rich and poor, between those who could escape the worst effects of the virus and those whose lives were abbreviated by it. Modernity established a biopolitical chasm – a social distancing of death – that was widened and accentuated by the #Covid19 crisis."

#inequality #LifeExpectancy #ViralUnderclass #HealthInequities

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-death-gap