Re: Sean Penn sponsoring COVID testing in SJ

[heather Howard <http://www.gmail.com/~hhoward40>]

People of privilege are those that temporarily have the luxury of “being 
cautious.”  What is breaking my heart is that beyond the gig workers, who 
have become essential “front-line” employees, is the rampant rate of the 
disease in prisons, assisted living care homes and retention camps for 
immigrants, to say nothing of shelters for the homeless. This is affecting 
people of color to a much greater degree not only because of high population 
density and poor access to good food, but also because poverty and lack of 
access to medical carehas less to a whole panoply of underlying conditions that 
leave these populations more vulnerable to the disease.  Not only that, they 
are often the “front-line” workers.  As I was saying, my heart is breaking. 
I’m trying to figure out a way to be useful as a white ally but this 
generally leaves me very overwhelmed.