Suspicion of hostility of Others, including everything from the position of their masks to their stance on the mission, have marked this pandemic badly in the first place. Now, perhaps not the best cut, suspicions are directed at those with Castle—Symptoms can cause up to a third of people to survive first infection with the virus. One theory is Covid Infections mess up the body’s defenses and can send the immune system into a frenzy, causing shortness of breath, extreme fatigue, and brain fog. In Invisible KingdomIn her forthcoming book on chronic illness, Meghan O’Rourke reports that doctors often dismiss these symptoms as meaningless. When medical tests for these patients come back negative, “Western medicine wants to say, ‘You’re fine,’” said Dayna McCarthy, a doctor specializing in the study of Covid.
This is not surprising. Skepticism about Chronic diseases, including post-polio syndrome and fibromyalgia, are extremely common — and it nearly always alienates patients, adding to their suffering and hindering treatment. Until researchers can find biomarkers that can certify long-term Covid as a “real” disease, the best clinicians can do is listen to testimony and treat the symptoms. symptom. But the lingering Covid project could also be served by a more rigorous epistemology of pain — that is, a theory of how we believe or suspect other people’s pain.
In her 1985 book The Sorrowful Body: The Creation and Perfection of the World, Elaine Scarry profoundly asserts: “There is great pain in having certainty; To hear about pain is to be suspicious. Because this statement illuminates both pain and knowledge, and because women rarely associate their names with philosophical assertions, I belatedly like to name this elegant proposition the “Axiom.” by Scarry”.
The axiom came to mind this fall for two reasons: I was trying to support a longtime close friend with Covid, and I joined a forum about how the media struggles with the pandemic. racial discrimination. It is the second experience that sheds light on the first and suggests Scarry’s axiom as a way to understand the acute distrust now pervading our pluralistic nation.
At the forum, socialists and libertarians each complained. Socialists accuse that the media’s focus on racism leaves behind a more important battle – the never-ending class struggle. Liberals argue that race-focused media fails to understand individuals, with their pressing fear of death and their aspirations for art, money, and transcendence. Liberals then photographed easily offended college students, who put their emotions before reason and were forever “offended” and in need of “security,” which he said was positions that are not suitable for education.
This familiar debate background. As far as I can tell, nobody on either side — and I disagree with both the socialists and the liberals — has never wavered. But maybe that’s because we’re always missing a truth in front of us: that we’re all dismissing others’ pain in some way as less than the truth about others’ pain while lifting. value of ourselves and our teammates, as a hard truth.
