COVID-19 cases are climbing again in 15 states across the country, as B117 continues to penetrate.

Meanwhile, Italy and other European countries are back in lockdown, while governors in the

US continue to ease COVID-19 restrictions. Only 25% of Americans have received at least

one dose of a vaccine, and only about 13% are fully immunized. We're still a long way away from

herd immunity. This is America Dissected, I'm your host Dr. Abdul-Elsaid. We're not out of the woods yet.

Last week, a terrorist used a gun he bought that same day to violently attack multiple Asian

own spas in the Atlanta area. Eight lives were lost. Six of them, Asian American women. This

attack comes amid an alarming increase in anti-Asian hate and hate crimes over the past year,

stemming from the aesonine conflation of the COVID-19 virus, which first emerged in China,

with Asian American identity. According to Cal State Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism,

hate crimes against Asian Americans were up by 833% in New York City alone. In the past year,

there were nearly 3200 hate crimes reported against Asian Americans. In the first two months of 2021,

there were an additional 500, according to the organization Stop AAPI Hate. Magnum mistake,

anti-Asian hatred sits at the heart of this attack in Atlanta. But it was also something else.

This deep, violent misogyny led this man to target women, and our lax paper thin gun laws allowed

him on the morning of this attack to walk into a gun shop and purchase a weapon that he'd used to

take their lives by nightfall. This attack should remind us that simple narratives never fully

capture everything at play. Evil acts like this one are facilitated when our society fails to

protect our citizens. If we care about protecting lives like those we lost, and it's our moral obligation

to do that, we have to break down, dissect, and dismantle the failures of our nation to protect

people like them. And this attack surfaces so many of the vialist evils that sit just below the surface.

First, there's the fact that the former president of the United States used his podium to

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