Order Number |
636738393092 |
Type of Project |
ESSAY |
Writer Level |
PHD VERIFIED |
Format |
APA |
Academic Sources |
10 |
Page Count |
3-12 PAGES |
Anz_12
Why is that important?
The story of the virus, so far, is a tale told in the objectivist language of science. Communities like ours— “communities of color”—are described as being “disproportionately” ravaged, at risk of illness, hospitalization and death in higher “numbers” than our share of the population. With regard to vaccination and testing, specifically, it is the same language: numbers, quantities, “how many;” “lower rates of vaccination and testing in communities of color.”
Quantification matter. What they most certainly are not is the whole story. Numbers don’t sicken or die or refuse/accept to be vaccinated or tested, it is people that do. Counting counts, what it knows naught about is the “feel” of that which it assigns numbers to; how it feels, for example to lose a loved one to the virus. Moreover, one death or illness or job loss… reverberating through the victim’s web of relationships, is more than “one.”
And it ought to be obvious, shouldn’t it, that the Natives of communities “disproportionately” ravaged who, yet refuse vaccination and testing at a greater rate than white communities have a story to tell? Who feels it, knows something and that “something” matters?
That is what our project is about: “The missing data;” accounts of our much talked about Southside community, in our own words; our story, in our own voice. With your help, we intend to create Listening-to-each-other spaces, where we may gather to swap stories, compare notes, learn from each other’s unique experiences, make sense of our troubles. This is “Rona”- ology.
hat is something that we should consider about effective leaders versus ineffective ones?