‘I Am Not Your Virus’: COVID-19 and Creation Care - a podcast by HTI Open Plaza

Stewardship of God's creation (“creation care”) is key to the ministries of both Rev. Dr. Loida Martell, a veterinarian by training, and of board-certified chaplain Alexandra Zareth. In this episode of OP Talks, the scholars discuss the year of the pandemic, and how it has exposed a new social reality that continues to reverberate not only socioeconomically and politically but also in our religious and educational institutions. The pandemic, Rev. Dr. Martell laments, has proven to be an unmitigated disaster and the most politicalized health crisis since HIV/AIDS. If the reasons for emergent viral diseases (and not simply SARS-CoV-2, a.k.a. COVID-19) are ecological, evolutionary, social, and economic in nature, and if North Atlantic nations have contributed to such diseases as they have contributed to global warming, why has this current pandemic been so racialized? To be more precise: Why has the general public—and sociopolitical leaders, in particular—seen it fit to fan the racist, anti-Asian rhetoric that has been fashionable and acceptable in the United States since the 1800s?

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