Covid denialists frame deaths as preordained because victims were doomed anyway

Evidence

The disability justice advocate and author Beatrice Adler-Bolton refers to the mindset that has animated so much Covid denialism as “deaths pulled from the future”—which she defines as the judgment-laden posture that frames “deaths from Covid-19 as somehow preordained” because the people doing most of the dying were probably going to die prematurely anyway. Covid just moved up the timeline a few years, so what’s the big deal? And that’s at the moderate end of the spectrum—at the extreme, sandalwood-scented end, those deaths pulled from the future are actually welcomed. Like the yoga woman said, “I think those people should die.” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 617

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Adler-Bolton’s concept of ‘deaths pulled from the future’ as a way Covid denialism ranks whose deaths matter.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s stated interest in diagonalism — this is a core term in Klein’s argument about how wellness culture bleeds into genocidal thinking.
• SEED: The concept ‘deaths pulled from the future’ as a framework for understanding rationalization of mass death across eras — colonial massacres, Covid, triage — could anchor an essay.