The Virus does not Discriminate, but Social and Economic Inequality will Ensure that it Does 

By Judith Butler on April 7, 2020

This article was written the day before Bernie Sanders dropped out of the presidential race.

The enforced isolation coincides with a new recognition of our global interdependence during the new time and space imposed by the pandemic. On the one hand, we are being asked to sequester ourselves in family units, shared living spaces or individual homes, deprived of social contact and relegated to spheres of relative isolation; on the other hand, we are faced with a virus that quickly crosses borders, alien to the very idea of national territory.

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