For frameworks, I picked ‘Jails make people sick’ by Zoe Saldana. The issue this excerpt address is that of the unpreparedness and lack of healthy living conditions in the U.S. prison system amidst this pandemic. She points out that while infectious diseases rapidly circulate through prisons, the people in charge are very unprepared and don’t do much to address the problem. I picked this because this issue isn’t exclusive to coronavirus, overall the prison systems in the U.S. are very broken and are often not at all concerned about the wellbeing of the inmates.
For stories, I picked ‘Tired’ by Alice Tsui. She writes about how common anti-Asian sentiments have become during this pandemic. There has been a huge increase in slurs and verbal attacks against Asian American’s because they are seen to have some sort of association with coronavirus. She cites various instances of people making nasty comments in public at anybody who ‘looks’ asian. The notion that Asians are more likely to have covid simply because of the way they look is obviously absolutely asinine. It’s really terrible that anybody has to experience this kind of treatment in the 21st century. I picked this story because I myself have witnessed stuff like this happen in public.
For resources, I picked ‘Wash your hands’ by Malaka Ghairab. It’s basically just a guide with 3 things that everybody should be doing to slow the spread of coronavirus. Wash your hands, sneeze into your elbow, don’t touch your face. (these are rules everybody should be following anyway just for general hygiene. We shouldn’t need a pandemic in order for people to wash their hands.) I picked this because these are literally the simplest and easiest things everybody should be doing to slow the spread of covid or any other contagious virus. Also it is presented as a comic which is a cool and creative way to present information.
I agree with you Jacob on your frameworks for ‘Jails make people sick’ by Zoe Saldana. Its true that Jails are terrible at caring for any inmate’s health and there should fix the broken prison system that taxpayers put their money in. I highly believe that prison systems lack of treatment for inmates, show that Corna is increase more in these broken prison systems.
I agree with Zoe Saldana. In prisons, the environment is indeed a very serious issue. Although there are prisoners, they also have human rights. Then “tired” and “wash your hand” are a very good example.
Zoe Saldana is spot on, prisoners are not treated like people by like sludge and muck, which is disheartening