viruses don't care about equality. they don't kill people equally, in equal proportions or as a response to affirmative action programs.
they're very mean, and they're not fair.
smallpox was totally racist.
so, the absolute dumbest way to approach a virus is by resorting to these liberal appeals to universalism, because the virus is a predator - it will pick off the weak.
we are going to have to discriminate against people on the basis of age and other things to save their lives and, increasingly, it would appear, to stop the society from collapsing.
we could simply put a ban on communicating with old people, but, instead we're canceling everything and shutting down the border, so that we don't inconvenience them, or something. it's retarded...
we're retarded. collectively. there's your statement of solidarity - we're all a bunch of fucking idiots.