{"id":5395,"date":"2021-04-01T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learn.elca.org\/jle\/?p=5395"},"modified":"2021-04-01T20:35:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T20:35:41","slug":"the-national-narrative-of-a-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learn.elca.org\/jle\/the-national-narrative-of-a-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Narrative of a Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"

[1] We did it.\u00a0\u00a0 We crossed the quarter million mark in numbers of deaths due to Covid 19 in the United States.\u00a0 And just before Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Estimates now include being at over four hundred thousand by Inauguration Day.\u00a0 Someplace in the middle for when Lutheran Social Ethicists gather?[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

[2] With over a hundred and eighty thousand new cases a day and rising (and according to epidemiologists, countless more not being counted), what once had been a geographically concentrated disease \u2013 a select few states in the Northeast and far West \u2013 now stretches from sea to shining sea and everywhere in between.\u00a0 No place is truly safe. With a consistent twenty percent of the world\u2019s cases, what has remained sure has been that the United States remains an epicenter for this epidemic for months.\u00a0 Our first wave never finished, just three peaks and three succeeding higher plateau periods later.<\/p>\n

[3]Equal to all the numbers are the intense and widespread human stories.\u00a0 We hear them on cable news shows.\u00a0 Our newspapers publish the obituaries and the special \u201cIn Memoriam\u201d inserts that may come quarterly.\u00a0 Millions remain out of work in the pandemic economy.\u00a0 Thousands of businesses are closed and will likely stay closed.\u00a0 We use a new vocabulary \u2013 contact tracing, K curve, self-quarantine, social distancing, herd immunity, lockdown, super-spreader, asymptomatic, PPE, etc.\u00a0 It is probably fair to say that only a very small percentage of American households remain untouched, unscathed by this corona virus.\u00a0 It is also fair to say that the corona virus has become part of the nation\u2019s current narrative.\u00a0 For what is a narrative other than a generalizable story connecting events and providing insight into a community and its context?\u00a0 The corona virus has surely done that, both in what has happened and in what has not been able to happen or continue (relationships conducted through windows, limits in other areas of medical research, postponed family events and funerals, etc.).<\/p>\n

[4] Sure, vaccines appear on the horizon.\u00a0 Thank God. \u00a0Perhaps by the time this is published, some may have already had theirs.\u00a0 \u00a0Initial tests for the frontrunner vaccines seem positive, big time.\u00a0 Some therapeutics work to lessen the severity and timeline of the disease.\u00a0 Medical research did its part in the war against the corona virus.\u00a0 A testing and production process that usually takes three to five years to bear fruit has been compressed to a third of the time.\u00a0 Did someone say we should talk about nominating saints as well as Nobel prize winners?<\/p>\n

[5] All of the above should make us think about how high the numbers of infection and death continue to climb before the medical lifelines stretch to all Americans and to all the world\u2019s peoples.\u00a0 Positive as the vaccine news is, the technological success of the medical and pharmaceutical industries and international academia cannot and perhaps should not cover what Covid 19 exposed along its destructive way.<\/p>\n

[6] A first fissure points to some of the limits of federalism in the face of a national catastrophe.\u00a0 We take pride in not understanding governance to mean what only occurs at the apex of our sovereign state.\u00a0\u00a0 The spread of power and the power of civic engagement were heralded not only by our founders, but also by international observers like Alexis de Tocqueville. \u00a0But the threats that Covid brought to our decentralized system seemed different, more expanding, all inclusive.\u00a0 What was happening in New York City in March and April of 2020 could not be stopped from pushing hard on New Jersey and Massachusetts.\u00a0 They could not later be stopped from decimating Florida and Texas and moving in and out of California. The employment and mobility patterns of businesses crossed state lines, such as meat-packing plants, airlines, and traveling tourists.\u00a0 The problem with each state responding to the virus differently, and local communities differing within states becomes the reality that boundaries and firebreaks are less meaningful, more porous, more irrelevant.\u00a0 Covid-19 moved at will circulating around the country to show the reality of a national threat upon the nation.<\/p>\n

[7] A second unmasked rift relates to the polarization of the culture, of the country.\u00a0 National or international crises have always (well almost always) brought Americans together.\u00a0 Ideology did not penetrate so deeply as to stop common cause.\u00a0 The Cold War might be an example where regardless of political persuasion, most of the country\u2019s leaders and followers saw a difference between here and there and what needed to be secured.\u00a0 The success of the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts might also be examples of common cause overcoming polarization.\u00a0 We see it, too, when the call to volunteers goes out following the strike of a natural disaster.<\/p>\n

[8] Clearly, something has changed.\u00a0 Whether one wears a face mask in public might be the symbolic representation and evidence of such change.\u00a0 If ever one could point to a series of events or problems that would bind the nation, surely it would be something that killed a thousand Americans a day.\u00a0 In large ways, that has not been the case.\u00a0 State capitals are invaded, governors are threatened, political leaders disregard scientific and medical guidelines, scientists and the process of science are derided, and whether or not to wear a face mask turns into a divisive argument.\u00a0 So often the key questions needing answers devolved to a conflict between \u201cthe economy\u201d or \u201cpublic health\u201d followed by a strong inability to ever get to \u201cyes\u201d by our political leaders.\u00a0 This is not to say that the corona virus brought on this degree of polarization, side-taking, and outright antipathy between Americans and the factions they choose.\u00a0 The corona virus magnified what was already there. \u00a0And what was there, to paraphrase Lincoln, was a house divided.<\/p>\n

[9] The third fissure revealed that not all have born the impacts of Covid 19 equally.\u00a0 Initially at the head of the line were the elderly and those living in senior care facilities.\u00a0 The per capita numbers of deaths were staggering.\u00a0 Was it due to pre-existing conditions alone? \u00a0Did it say something about the care of the aged in America?\u00a0 The video photos of total isolation and separation from families, and the stories of life and death from the inside of senior care provided a gut punch of reality.\u00a0 An especially hard punch when compared to lives and resources made available to this age group in other democratic societies.<\/p>\n

[10] The next blinder to fall would be the relationship between the virus and race.\u00a0 As in so many ways, race and racial inequality dominate the history and destiny of the American experiment.\u00a0 Choices made and habits unbroken, policies supported, resource disequilibrium, and hypocrisies never challenged ensured the ongoing power of racial injustice within systems, structures and relationships.\u00a0 That the number of deaths and infections due to the corona virus, as a percentage of the population, should track higher among African-American and Latino populations than white populations ran parallel to what has been confirmed by other statistical evidence.\u00a0 The history of racial injustice in America, and the conditions that racial injustice developed, increased the likelihood of impact by corona virus among people of color, marginalized populations, and the poor.<\/p>\n

[11] Perhaps no other group has taken on more risk during this time than those called \u201cessential workers.\u201d\u00a0 In addition to healthcare and front-line providers, these are the mail carriers, grocery attendants, cab drivers, truck drivers, delivery personnel, and other direct service providers.\u00a0 Many of them just make minimum wage or slightly above.\u00a0 They are and continue to be essential.\u00a0 Many of us depend more heavily on carry out, pick up, and direct delivery of almost everything that we need or want than ever before \u2013 especially where pre-existing medical conditions prevail.\u00a0 Yet their risk in the middle of this pandemic, versus those who can work from home, exceeds what might be considered the fair wage owed to those taking those risks.\u00a0 And little gets done to rectify these concerns of economic justice, or aid the household settings where decisions are made between doing the job or else potentially losing other goods (insurance, housing, health, personal and family security).<\/p>\n

[12] Others may point to different significant ruptures in the American national fabric helped along by Covid-19 than those identified above. \u00a0They are certainly there. \u00a0So many parts of our lives and routines have been changed \u2013 how we work, how we shop, who we see and how we see them, how we worship, how we travel, how we vote, how we govern, how we go to a doctor, how we communicate, how we do family, what we believe about the future.<\/p>\n

[13] Thinking about the future, there are many whose job considers what the next virus will be that moves from animal to human with all the potential of a different corona or Ebola virus.\u00a0 Health institutions and projects from veterinary medical schools across the United States, major zoos, to the Smithsonian\u2019s Global Health Program and the non-profit agency, Global Virome Project, evaluate different settings and animal to people relationships around the world for movements of new diseases.\u00a0 Such institutions track dozens of future candidates already in existence hoping to better predict and prepare what is needed medically for public health and for what is likely to come.\u00a0 Ironically, the United States Government pulled out its funding from government agencies like the United States Agency for International Development that had been working with the above partners in March of 2020 on what became known as the PREDICT project.<\/p>\n

[14] Human security speaks to concerns that threaten the nation\u2019s safety and progress without necessarily originating from an enemy state, or from military hardware.\u00a0 What Covid 19 has rendered in the last twelve months could easily be considered a human security threat.\u00a0 The risks of climate change fall into the same category of security.\u00a0 The country is economically weaker and more challenged. Its relative position has shifted with other nation-states not so embraced by the disease.\u00a0 Its population is tired and thus far unable to bring down the levels of disease without the input of vaccines.\u00a0 And that salvation though the distribution of vaccines to the nation\u2019s population will surely take most of 2021 to accomplish. \u00a0The recent past has been about hard times, and the months ahead will likely be some tough times still.<\/p>\n

[15] Taken all of the above information together, it seems imperative for faith communities \u2013 any and all faith communities \u2013 to take time and effort to consider what they need to be about as the society on every level, across every region, and probably within every household has moved and changed.\u00a0 Few in our country do not have knowledge or experience in a personal way with the losses associated with this disease.\u00a0 More questions require answers and actions than public policy might provide.\u00a0 The moral and ethical dilemmas uncovered by this novel corona virus have been severe and stark whether thinking about methods of human triage in an emergency room, the relationship of safety to urgency when developing new medicines, or should the world\u2019s population whose states can purchase vaccines with excess capital have greater access to them then populations in developing states.\u00a0 And as discussed briefly earlier, we know there are more of these diseases out there yet to come.<\/p>\n

[16] We as a planning team for the 2021 Lutheran Ethicists\u2019 Gathering, thought the intensity, ubiquity, and resulting ambiguities caused in so many people\u2019s lives by Covid 19, and how we responded to the disease as a nation, created an imperative for this Gathering and for us as citizens and as ethicists to rethink and reengage with what is necessary for us to help mend the national fabric.\u00a0\u00a0 We are a torn people bearing many needs.\u00a0 Standard operating procedures are likely to not keep up with the consequences unleashed by Covid 19.\u00a0 Let this 2021 Lutheran Ethicists\u2019 Gathering be a part of the moral urgency needed in our time and place, and by our institutions both secular and faith-based.\u00a0 Let dialog flourish meaningfully and productively.\u00a0 Let us find our place to act.\u00a0 Focusing upon dimensions of this disease in public and personal life for the good of all God\u2019s people is the call. Turning away is not a choice.<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Editor\u2019s note.\u00a0 The U.S. is well above the half million mark at the time of this publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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