Perspectives: Coronavirus has revealed how dispensable life is in America. What price can a life have in a country whose symbols are the cowboy and the skyscraper
The United States passed 100,000 coronavirus deaths on Wednesday afternoon, although the true number to have died may never be known. Death on the scale of coronavirus is hard to measure with absolute accuracy.
Coronavirus has revealed how dispensable life is in America. What price can a life have in a country whose symbols are the cowboy and the skyscraper? Are the lives of those on horseback on the range more disposable to the American experiment than those who sleep 300ft above ground? “There is a tradition in philosophy that would say the question is almost a category error - Kant says that human lives have a dignity that is ‘raised above all price,’ so in a certain sense we are each of us of infinite value.
“The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does the Westerner. Life is plentiful, life is cheap in the Orient. And, eh, that's the philosophy of the Orient. Expresses it - life is not important,” he told a documentary in 1973. Coronavirus is just the latest gaping pit into which Americans can throw themselves. Like guns and its exploitative, inadequate healthcare, it joins a long succession of bloody chasms stretching back hundreds of years, all the way back to its colonial origins.
Over the Memorial Day weekend, a holiday honouring the US war dead, dozens of American states prepared to relax social distancing measures, despite coronavirus cases continuing to increase in new areas, moving from dense urban to rural areas. There has been a heavy death toll in the country, but there are still 320 million Americans, a figure so large that 100,000 dead could be a statistical rounding error. It’s “only” .031% of the US population.
“That’s the system we live in. Let’s also not ignore the racial history of this terminology, which has roots in slavery. It’s not just the terminology that’s racialized. Even today, the folks deemed as ‘human capital stock’ are disproportionately Black, Brown, & low income White folks.”
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