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Numbers have taken on a whole different meaning during this pandemic, and we ve all been pinned to their rise and fall with a voyeuristic sense of horror.
Daily case counts. A global death toll.
But the faceless and nameless spectre of numbers masks the mourning.and stories of love, loss, and injustice.
As the Black Lives Matter protests spilled onto the streets after the death of George Floyd in the USA, Black lives are being taken by COVID-19 in disproportionate numbers. Something about the datafication of lives dehumanizes them , argues A.I ethics scholar and robotics engineer Inioluwa Deborah Raji.