The pandemic’s mortality and exposure risk were sharply unequal across classes

Evidence

The coronavirus pandemic was, at one point, termed the “great equalizer,” as if the vulnerabilities faced by individuals were equivalent, as if the potentials of exposure were the same for all, as if death could affect each and every individual equally. This claim is, of course, laughable. Death never comes for us all in equal measure, on the same footing. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 358