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Discrimination Today - The Dangers of Pariah-tizing the Elderly during the COVID Pandemic

2022-05-25

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Epidemics invite “pariah-tization.” By this, I mean the process of stigmatizing one marginalized and impotent segment of society as being the group most vulnerable to the disease at hand- without reliable scientific basis. Doing so allows those in power, the young, the rich, the well-educated, to create an artificial cocoon, deluding themselves into believing that they, by virtue of their “superior” hardiness, eth...

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Literature Corpus work: 668eba81-e022-51d7-b8e0-9364db12f5ec
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4105435

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