What decides which side of the narrative you'll choose, or worse still, you'll fall in?
For all the poor victims of Covid19 in Europe making the best of an unfortunate situation, there are the billion perpetrators from the Far East. For all the excellent citizens who unfortunately tested positive, there are those who deliberately have utter disregard to sense and sensibility and deserve what comes to them. For all the terribly sad stories of the spread in the US, there are the thousands of people in neighbourhoods in the Indian subcontinent who are seemingly against humanity and brought this on themselves and others.
Because they would never deserve this, but they probably do.
What decides which side of the narrative you'll choose, or worse still, you'll fall in?
Is it ideas of first world vs other countries?
Is it actual physical distance from where it is happening?
Is it a particular history we know, or think we know?
Is it the nameless faces vs the heads of state, Hollywood actors, royalty?
Is it always necessary that seriously flawed decisions by some have to be attributed to an entire people?
Is a point of view mostly going to carry more weight over perspective?
Is it unfair to expect that the lens we'll now view each new situation with will be coloured differently overnight?
What a shame if during these most unusual of times we choose to be reactive with our existing dominant discourses and partisan ideas, rather than be reflective on deep systemic and establishment issues that need correcting.