'Then I think we do have at least an implicit blaming of the victim.' 'Deaths linked to weather, man-made or so-called natural disasters, are not the victims' fault, that is they were struck by some unseen force, an uncontrollable force over which they have no power, whereas we identify COVID deaths as linked to individual responsibility,' Keller said.
In those events, the deaths were not viewed as the victims' fault. This is at odds with other major disasters in America such as 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina, some experts said. 'Now, as a result, I think we're seeing an enormous discounting of those deaths as somehow deaths that don't really matter in the grand scheme of things,' he added.
