Policies kill. This was a most egregious case and Thom, brilliantly explained here. The racism is fundamental:” Good! Let them die!” I lost a friend who was one of the most staunch and spiritual fellow mothers I’ve ever known. She was an El Salvadorean refugee from American covert war in her country. Of course she encountered only poor food to feed her large family here, but she managed. She never lost faith, though she often felt depressed. The children all went to college. The youngest, whom she almost lost to poor prenatal care, got a Master’s degree. She died of Covid in her home, tended by her eldest daughter and recovered alcoholic husband. How much harder do we have to make peoples lives, due to collective judgement and punishment, and racial hatred? America, wake up. The Trumps are leading us to hell because of their willful blindness. They have taken over the Republican Party. This year, for your immortal soul’s sake, as well as human history’s, vote Democrat.