U.S._ COVID-Borne Distrust of Doctors, Politicians Will Outlast Pandemic

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COVID-Borne Distrust of Doctors, Politicians Will Outlast Pandemic

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By Ira Stoll
Thursday, 13 January 2022 01:25 PM
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For an explanation of why vaccinated people are still wearing masks, taking COVID-19 tests and quarantining, even though their risk of hospitalization or death from the omicron variant is minimal, look to critical race theory.

Critical race theory, as the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund explains it, is a framework that says “systemic racism is part of American society.” It says that racism “is more than the result of individual bias and prejudice” and “is embedded in laws, policies and institutions that uphold and reproduce racial inequalities.”

To unsympathetic white people, that can sound a lot like excuse-making. To many black and Hispanic people, the theory can go too far toward robbing individuals of their agency — instilling victimhood in young people of color rather than teaching them about their own responsibility and possibility.

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READ MORE: https://www.newsmax.com/ira-stoll/covid-doctors-politicians-pandemic/2022/01/13/id/1052302/

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But before dismissing COVID-19 as only a problem for the unvaccinated, or raging against the unvaccinated as the reason that vaccinated people are still masking and testing — it’s worth asking why they haven’t gotten a shot.

When people don’t trust their doctors or their political leaders, it’s a crisis of confidence. That is a long-term threat that will outlast the coronavirus hassles.

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