By: Lina, Sabrina, Yujia

Link to the picture: https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/cartoons/coronavirus-deaths-racial-disparities-nursinghomes-poverty-20200506.html

 

Description: The political cartoon shows the bad and hospital tool. There’s one reporter who’s interviewing the doctor. Many people suffer from COVID. The people want to get treated as soon as possible based on the picture. It creates a huge impact on people’s health. There are three words under the bed, and the machine is working by seeing the radio waves. The doctor was interviewed because of his high authority, we can see that from his status of standing.

 

Rhetorical Analysis: 

This political cartoon is arguing the message that COVID disproportionately affects various populations. The doctor is shown wearing an American flag top and pants representing that the government is saying that “COVID fatalities had underlying conditions”. The patient who has passed on is shown laying on top of the words “Poor, Black, and Nursing Home Resident”. This effectively shows that the underlying conditions are affecting these populations in the nation. This argument most likely comes from the left side as it is a democratic belief that these populations are underfunded and systemically setup to never push outside of poverty. This then connects to the idea that they will be disproportionately affected by issues like a global pandemic. This cartoon is effective in its argument because it uses the play on words “underlying” and puts the conditions directly underlying the patient.

 

individual work:

After I read the pauline’s response, we both mentioned that roger’s perspective is seeing an argument from both side, and take the example of different ideas about what to do about the epidemic to support his perspectives that we should be open minded about both ideas, so we’d stand a much better chance of protecting both lives and livelihoods from not only the effects of the pandemic.