Geoffrey L. Wood is associate professor of sociology and director of the Center for Applied Research (CFAR) at University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg.

• ContentsIntroduction: The Impact of Covid-19 on Political Dynamics, Social Inequality, and the Wellbeing of Americans Geoffrey L. WoodChapter 1: Did Covid-19 Create a New Opportunity to “Regulate the Poor”? Donna Bobbitt-Zeher and Adian DobynsChapter 2: What a Difference One Hundred Years Makes: A Covid Queen but no Flu King of South Dakota: Media Portrayals of the Flu of 1918 in South Dakota Pamela Ray Koch and Aaron B. FranzenChapter 3: Livin’ in the Gangsta’s Paradise: Economic Wealth Over Population Health during the Covid-19 PandemicMelinda Jackson-JeffersonChapter 4: Forced Layoff or Voluntary Leave? The Gender Disparity in Job Loss during the Covid-19 PandemicIn Choi and Shichao DuChapter 5: The First Covid Generation: The Great Equalizing MythEboni Pringle, Elizbeth Piatt, Chinasa Elue, Na’Tasha Evans, and Yu Lin HsuChapter 6: A Shift in the Norms: The Impact of Covid-19 on Class, Access to Technology, and Social Inequalities in Higher EducationDanielle Mehlma

This edited book brings together essays on America’s political responses to the covid epidemic. By situating the state’s response at the forefront of the public health’s crisis, the authors show how the state’s rationale was to maintain the existing social order, positioned the economy at the expense of saving lives, and ultimately drive an ideological wedge between Democrats and Republicans around the issue of life and death. This is an important read for critical thinkers interested in the larger question of why crises or black swan events do not lead to social change or political realignment.

Geoffrey L. Wood is associate professor of sociology and director of the Center for Applied Research (CFAR) at University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg.

• ContentsIntroduction: The Impact of Covid-19 on Political Dynamics, Social Inequality, and the Wellbeing of Americans Geoffrey L. WoodChapter 1: Did Covid-19 Create a New Opportunity to “Regulate the Poor”? Donna Bobbitt-Zeher and Adian DobynsChapter 2: What a Difference One Hundred Years Makes: A Covid Queen but no Flu King of South Dakota: Media Portrayals of the Flu of 1918 in South Dakota Pamela Ray Koch and Aaron B. FranzenChapter 3: Livin’ in the Gangsta’s Paradise: Economic Wealth Over Population Health during the Covid-19 PandemicMelinda Jackson-JeffersonChapter 4: Forced Layoff or Voluntary Leave? The Gender Disparity in Job Loss during the Covid-19 PandemicIn Choi and Shichao DuChapter 5: The First Covid Generation: The Great Equalizing MythEboni Pringle, Elizbeth Piatt, Chinasa Elue, Na’Tasha Evans, and Yu Lin HsuChapter 6: A Shift in the Norms: The Impact of Covid-19 on Class, Access to Technology, and Social Inequalities in Higher EducationDanielle Mehlma

This edited book brings together essays on America’s political responses to the covid epidemic. By situating the state’s response at the forefront of the public health’s crisis, the authors show how the state’s rationale was to maintain the existing social order, positioned the economy at the expense of saving lives, and ultimately drive an ideological wedge between Democrats and Republicans around the issue of life and death. This is an important read for critical thinkers interested in the larger question of why crises or black swan events do not lead to social change or political realignment.

Geoffrey L. Wood is associate professor of sociology and director of the Center for Applied Research (CFAR) at University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg.

• ContentsIntroduction: The Impact of Covid-19 on Political Dynamics, Social Inequality, and the Wellbeing of Americans Geoffrey L. WoodChapter 1: Did Covid-19 Create a New Opportunity to “Regulate the Poor”? Donna Bobbitt-Zeher and Adian DobynsChapter 2: What a Difference One Hundred Years Makes: A Covid Queen but no Flu King of South Dakota: Media Portrayals of the Flu of 1918 in South Dakota Pamela Ray Koch and Aaron B. FranzenChapter 3: Livin’ in the Gangsta’s Paradise: Economic Wealth Over Population Health during the Covid-19 PandemicMelinda Jackson-JeffersonChapter 4: Forced Layoff or Voluntary Leave? The Gender Disparity in Job Loss during the Covid-19 PandemicIn Choi and Shichao DuChapter 5: The First Covid Generation: The Great Equalizing MythEboni Pringle, Elizbeth Piatt, Chinasa Elue, Na’Tasha Evans, and Yu Lin HsuChapter 6: A Shift in the Norms: The Impact of Covid-19 on Class, Access to Technology, and Social Inequalities in Higher EducationDanielle Mehlma

This edited book brings together essays on America’s political responses to the covid epidemic. By situating the state’s response at the forefront of the public health’s crisis, the authors show how the state’s rationale was to maintain the existing social order, positioned the economy at the expense of saving lives, and ultimately drive an ideological wedge between Democrats and Republicans around the issue of life and death. This is an important read for critical thinkers interested in the larger question of why crises or black swan events do not lead to social change or political realignment.