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Frontline healthcare heroes, embodied in ‘most visible’ Dr. Fauci, named TIME Guardians of the Year Frontline healthcare heroes & ‘racial justice organizers’ named TIME’s (mutually exclusive?) Guardians of the Year
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TIME Magazine has made frontline healthcare personnel, represented by federal health adviser Anthony Fauci, their Guardians of the Year, hailing their essential – and dangerous – work amid the global coronavirus pandemic. Time has designated frontline health workers – and racial justice organizers – as ‘guardians of the year,’ though lockdown-violating BLM protesters would seem to fly in the face of doctors’ guilt-inducing order to ‘stay home.’
Fauci, who’s headed up the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and has served as a senior adviser on the White House’s pandemic response team created in January, was selected for the honor on Thursday night, alongside all medical staff who’ve worked through the health crisis. Apparently trying to have its cake and eat it too, Time named “frontline health workers” – a crowd-pleasing category – and “racial justice organizers” as “guardians of the year,” a newly-devised category for its coveted “person of the year” selection.
“The Covid-19 pandemic has put the world on hold. However, anyone deemed essential… had to keep going,” TIME said when it announced the nomination. “They risked their lives and in doing so, saved countless other lives.” However, the magazine’s selections served up a decidedly mixed message, as a video clip representing the health workers reminded the audience that “frontline workers are risking their lives to help save ours” and a voiceover chided Americans for sending hospitals pizzas and other goodies: “what we need is for you to stop exposing us.”
Fauci was tapped to serve on President Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force as a senior adviser earlier this year after the outbreak kicked off, quickly becoming one of the more recognizable faces at the White House’s daily pandemic briefings. Though he has since butted heads with the president – who’s repeatedly criticized Fauci – even calling for his firing, the health expert is set to continue his role on the task force should presumptive president-elect Joe Biden take office in January. Yet Black Lives Matter initially reemerged in a series of lockdown-violating protests back in May following the killing of Minneapolis man George Floyd and has somehow received special dispensation – from the media, if not always from authorities – to carry on in cities across the US even as other protests are quashed and demonized.
While the frontline health workers were a crowd-pleaser, some couldn’t help but notice that the underpaid and often under-appreciated members of that category could use more concrete assistance than a splashy magazine cover.
And others observed that the ever-broadening range of “people of the year” diluted the purpose of the awards.
The two “racial justice organizers” named by the magazine were bafflingly obscure. Porche Bennett-Bey, whose big day was apparently taking the mic at a town hall in Kenosha, Wisconsin for then-presidential-candidate Joe Biden and calling for more understanding of the plight of the black community, scarcely appears in a Google search. Assa Traoré, a French activist whose brother died in police custody in 2016, is somewhat better known but barely appears in Time’s hagiographic writeup.
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