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Esyllt Jones

Esyllt Jones is the dean of studies at St. John's College at the University of Manitoba. Professor Jones is a historian of health and disease in Canada.

Epidemics and resistance: maintaining public trust in a time of unrest

WINNIPEG—Perhaps the most potent symbol yet of COVID-19’s relationship to inequality, and to resistance, is the mask worn by some of those demonstrating against

Opinion | BY ESYLLT JONES | June 15, 2020

Anti-Black racism protesters, pictured on June 5, 2020, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Are these recent protests against police violence and systemic racial inequality happening during a disease outbreak only by coincidence? In my research, I have looked at the relationship between the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 and the struggle for greater labour rights and social equality that emerged at the end of the pandemic’s ‘third wave.’ Epidemic outbreaks have frequently been accompanied by popular unrest. What we are living through right now echoes the history of epidemics and resistance, writes Esyllt Jones. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Epidemics and resistance: maintaining public trust in a time of unrest

Opinion | BY ESYLLT JONES | June 15, 2020

WINNIPEG—Perhaps the most potent symbol yet of COVID-19’s relationship to inequality, and to resistance, is the mask worn by some of those demonstrating against

Epidemics and resistance: maintaining public trust in a time of unrest

Opinion | BY ESYLLT JONES | June 15, 2020

WINNIPEG—Perhaps the most potent symbol yet of COVID-19’s relationship to inequality, and to resistance, is the mask worn by some of those demonstrating against

Anti-Black racism protesters, pictured on June 5, 2020, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Are these recent protests against police violence and systemic racial inequality happening during a disease outbreak only by coincidence? In my research, I have looked at the relationship between the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 and the struggle for greater labour rights and social equality that emerged at the end of the pandemic’s ‘third wave.’ Epidemic outbreaks have frequently been accompanied by popular unrest. What we are living through right now echoes the history of epidemics and resistance, writes Esyllt Jones. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade