Episode 105: Pandemic, Pelosi, and the People We Consider Human

<div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6vtr9" data-offset-key="et5v3-0-0"> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="et5v3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="et5v3-0-0">The COVID-19 pandemic is ravaging the globe, leaving immeasurable human suffering in its wake. Who is left behind, struggling to survive on the frontlines of precarity, is – as with all things – determined primarily by wealth, privilege, and access to resources and political capital.</span></div> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="et5v3-0-0"> </div> </div> <div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6vtr9" data-offset-key="evmu3-0-0"> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="evmu3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="evmu3-0-0">This fact has been starkly on display in recent days, as Congressional Democrats began debating their response to the crisis: corporations, wealthy investors and industry were prioritized, formal wage workers were given crumbs, and the undocumented and informal economy workers – such as domestic caregivers; undocumented workers; sex workers; and freelance, contract, and off-the-books workers – were ignored completely. </span></div> </div> <div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6vtr9" data-offset-key="98uhl-0-0"> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="98uhl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="98uhl-0-0">On this week's episode, we analyze a 48-hour time period of coverage in</span> <span data-offset-key="98uhl-0-1">The New York Times</span> <span data-offset-key="98uhl-0-2">and</span> <span data-offset-key="98uhl-0-3">The Washington Post</span> <span data-offset-key="98uhl-0-4">when the discussion of who was going to be prioritized and aided – and who wasn't – cemented in po