[Vwoolf] Covid-19 memorials

[Ellen Moody]

I'm not sure why I am replying again (as I told myself  I wouldn't) but
since my name keeps coming up, I'd like to say in today's Washington Post
in the "Outlook" Section, pp B1 and B8, Micki McElya expresses in an
article, what I was trying to say when I commended Judy Woodruff's efforts
(she did some commemoration on this past Thursday night again -- 5 people).
The article is titled "Almost 90,000 dead an no hint of national
mourning."  Put up front "We don't see them as 'ours," says historian Micki
McElya:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/national-mourning-coronavirus/2020/05/15/b47fc670-9577-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html


I call attention to where McElya writes, "But in the case of the pandemic,
even Americans apparently are not 'all Americans,' or rather some are less
recognized in national kinship ... "
He eventually quotes Judith Butler, who "in her book, 'Precarious Life; The
powers of Mourning and Violence,' writes 'the obituary functions as the
instrument by which grievability is publicly distributed, an icon for
self-recognition.""

Now I'm not remembering clearly and didn't take down the source, but not
long ago one of the Republican senators offered as a reason not to give the
millions of unemployed people, those without food, no money for rent, any
more subsidy is they are "non-people."

Ellen
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