Vox Populi:

The chaotic roll-out of the vaccines has meant that people with access to the internet, reliable transportation and flexible hours have had a much easier time getting vaccinated.

On March 29, Eric, the most prominent lay leader at my church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, perished from COVID-19. He was one of 685 people across the United States and one of 15 in Massachusetts to die from the disease that day. On April 6, Eric’s mother Elmo also died from the coronavirus, one of 907 in the US and one of 12 in Massachusetts.

Both were likely casualties of a nation and state that betrayed them more than once during the pandemic: First by failing to quell the virus last year; secondly by allowing people like them to fall behind in getting vaccines; and thirdly by relaxing coronavirus restrictions while the nation remains riddled with racial vaccine disparities.

All put together, Eric and Elmo are among those who have fallen to the collective selfishness of the prior White House and the nation’s governors, regardless of political stripe—a selfishness significantly stained by systemic racism.

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