"The focus on personal responsibility is a form of gaslighting," one social epidemiologist says.

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With few COVID-19 restrictions, individuals are being asked to do the right thing
Coronavirus cases are reaching record highs. Hospitals are overflowing.

But instead of implementing stay-at-home advisories and other actions that helped flatten the curve in the spring, public officials are pursuing another approach to managing the virus’s spread: a plea for personal responsibility.

Public health experts say this course of action ignores the structural nature of public health and fails to account for the confusion many ordinary people feel over how to do their part and stay safe.

“[It’s] a form of gaslighting,” says one social epidemiologist.

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