The facile notion that the pandemic was an equal opportunity menace was belied by the simplest observation about who was delivering the packages, who was stocking shelves at grocery stores, and who was emptying bedpans in nursing homes, where senior citizens were dying in alarming numbers. In the United States, women, Blacks, and Latinos were prominently overrepresented in such jobs, just as they were overrepresented among the ranks of the dead. In Britain, people of Caribbean and African descent were suffering death rates double and triple those of whites despite the country’s socialized
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