Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s daughter calls for post-COVID mask mandate in impassioned UN sp…

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s daughter calls for post-COVID mask mandate in impassioned UN sp…

Distinguished guests, thank you for having me. I feel so humbled to be here. Um, I represent a generation that in many ways already knows how we’ve been failed. We are no strangers to protesting injustice. This summer alone has seen youth uprisings in Nepal, Angola, and Indonesia. To say nothing of ongoing youth mobilization worldwide for a free Palestine. And wherever we live, we’ve grown up in the shadow of the climate crisis with the threats, sc sacrifices, and scarcities that will entail looming over us. We know what that means for our lives in no small part thanks to the people in this room. And we are told by leaders across the board that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes. For adults, the relentless beat of back to normal, ignoring, downplaying, and concealing both the prevalence of airborne transmission and the threat of long COVID, manifested in a series of choices. Young people lacked both real choice in the matter and information about what was being chosen for us. Here’s what we know about SARS KV2. It is airborne, floating and lingering in the air. One infection can result in disabling damage to almost every cell in the body, from the brain and heart to the nerves and blood vessels. Every subsequent infection increases the risk of longcoid and places people who already have it in greater danger. Here’s what we don’t know is what it does to reinfect children over and over and over again with no end point in sight from the day they are born. We are about to find out. As Dr. Ako Iwasaki says, at this point the whole population is the control group and after only 5 years long CO has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in children. 5 years. I am terrified for the children who do not or soon will not know a world without debilitating pain and exhaustion. Who cannot trust their bodies to play, explore, and imagine, and who will not know the potential of their own minds unfettered by the cognitive damage from a co 19 infection. And I am furious on their behalf. It is a neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say, “We knew how to protect you and we didn’t do it. We have access to a technology to prevent airborne disease, something that millions of our ancestors and millions of people around the world today would kill for. And we refuse to use it. And I shudder to think of where we will be in another 5 years of unmititigated infection and reinfection. But let me say on the topic of generational memory that while I imagine no one in this room was alive in the time of Jon Snow or Ignosis, many of you fought the long and hard battle against indoor smoking. My only memory of that era at almost 20 years old is being confused as a child about the no smoking signs on planes. Who would do that? That’s gross. My hope for this event and my belief in this community rest on the belief that we can and we must do that again. We can recognize filtered air as a human right as intuitively as we do filtered water. We can create clean air infrastructure that is so ubiquitous and so obviously necessary tomorrow’s children don’t even know why we need it. We need the people who remember 2020, who were not like me, 14 in 2020, to be loud about the world that we were promised at the onset of the pandemic when we and our institutions promised each other that if we only got out of that desperate acute phase, we would do everything we could to protect our communities going forward. And we need the people who are born now. We owe it to the people who are born now that they take that world for granted. Thank you.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s daughter Violet made an impassioned speech at the United Nations. The 19-year-old called for post-COVID mask mandates — while wearing one of her own — in order to combat “unmitigated infection and reinfection.”

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