The Root is an African American online magazine that breaks astonishing news. While the rest of the world is worried about the Covid pandemic, Damon Young, writing on the Root, has announced his breathtaking discovery that ‘whiteness is a pandemic’. Here’s Young’s diagnosis: ‘Whiteness is a public health crisis. It shortens life expectancies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people.’