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Mar 1:  Writing to the full Red Dawn email chain, Dr. Carter Mecher, senior advisor in the Department of Veterans Affairs, says that the United States is late to \u201cpull all the triggers<\/a><\/span>\u201d to implement community mitigation strategies such as social distancing. Trump announces that he was ordering tighter coronavirus screening for travelers arriving in the U.S. from “high risk” countries. The U.S. reports its<\/a><\/span> second<\/a> coronavirus death<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The sun sits low, slate-grey in the sky today. It slides, like a glimpse of a ghost through a mirror, in and out through the blanketing clouds. This afternoon, while watching a master dance class on campus, I was reminded of how much we are shaped by living in the bodies that we have. Whether we are born white or Black, male or female, disabled or not\u2014our bodies bear the burdens of generations before us, and define what we are now. Menominee poet, Chrystos, writes that \u201cthere are women locked in [her] joints for refusing to speak to the police\u201d and in her broken knees lie \u201cchildren torn from their families bludgeoned into government schools.\u201d[1]<\/a> She carries all of it in her bones and marrow. The physical self, a temporary shell into which all of us are thrown at birth, is already so full of those who came before us, so proscribed in what it will allow us to be and not be. I could see the dancers in the class today striving to expose the deep histories of their bodies, trying to let the \u201cpus of the past ooze from every pore.\u201d I could also see them struggling against the cultural identities that their corporeal realities have imposed upon them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Are we really heading into a pandemic<\/em>\u2014that nightmare we presumed modern medicine warded off? Will my body, which carries the aches of my mother and my grandmother, which has been so sick before, betray me again? What of the brown and Black bodies that America has always disregarded, has always burdened and bludgeoned? Will they be betrayed like they have been so many times before\u2014either by a virus or by a state that sees them as disposable?<\/span><\/p>\n

Tonight, on the television, a pediatrician and vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit, is on Christiane Amanpour\u2019s global affairs show on CNN. He seems to say I’m exaggerating. Another respected voice insisting that people are making too big a deal of the coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n

But we are all afraid that our bodies will betray us, that the world will stop being safe and predictable. You can see it in the hoarding that has begun across the nation. Hand sanitizer is selling so fast that manufacturers are struggling to make more.<\/span>[2]<\/a> That makes sense, given that the virus is spread from surface to hand to eyes or mouth or nose. People are also hoard-buying of medical masks. Major government health experts, the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services, are all saying that only healthcare workers or the sick need to wear masks. And, even when worn, they\u2019re rarely installed correctly, so why bother?<\/span>[3]<\/a> Surgeon General Jerome Adams had to go all-caps to fight off people’s fear: \u201cSeriously people — STOP BUYING MASKS!\u201d he\u2019s tweeting. Apparently, just staying home when you’re sick, just washing your hands with soap and water, these things are sufficient. The panic of the public is what we really need to avoid, he contends.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But there are other narratives, more worrying. The Department of Defense, for instance, thinks this will indeed be a pandemic by the end of the month and is making preparations.[4]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

So, who do we trust, the government \u2026 or the government?<\/span><\/p>


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[1]<\/a> Chrystos, “I Walk in the History of My People,” in Cherr\u00ede Moraga and Gloria Anzald\u00faa (eds.), This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color<\/em>. SUNY Press, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Kate Gibson, \u201cDemand for Hand Sanitizers up 1,400% and Sellers Are Rationing Supplies,\u201d CBS News, March 2, 2020, https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/coronavirus-demand-for-household-cleaners-disinfectants-lysol-clorox-purell-sanitizers-2020-03-02\/.<\/span><\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Elisabeth Buchwald, \u201cU.S. Health Officials Say Americans Shouldn\u2019t Wear Face Masks to Prevent Coronavirus \u2014 Here Are 3 Other Reasons Not to Wear Them,\u201d MarketWatch<\/em>, March 2, 2020, https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/the-cdc-says-americans-dont-have-to-wear-facemasks-because-of-coronavirus-2020-01-30.<\/span><\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Jenni Fink and Naveed Jamali, \u201cExclusive: Defense Department Expects Coronavirus Will \u2018Likely\u2019 Become Global Pandemic in 30 Days, as Trump Strikes Serious Tone,\u201d Newsweek<\/em>, March 1, 2020, https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/coronavirus-department-defense-pandemic-30-days-1489876. [\/read_more]<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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