Violet Affleck, the daughter of Hollywood A-listers Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, appeared before the United Nations in New York City on Tuesday. The 19-year-old activist spoke about the importance of masks and other preventative measures more than five years after the COVID-19 pandemic changed life across the globe.
Violet participated in an event titled **Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action**. As a first-year student at Yale’s Davenport College, she emphasized the ongoing need to wear masks to curb the spread of COVID-19.
“It is neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say, ‘We knew how to protect you, and we didn’t do it,'” the Ivy League student said during her speech.
She highlighted an alarming lack of responsibility in the current generation, noting how adults are eager to return to business as usual despite the ongoing risks. “For adults, the relentless beat of ‘back to normal,’ ignoring, downplaying, and concealing both the prevalence of airborne transmission and the threat of Long COVID manifested in a series of choices,” Violet explained.
“Our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes,” Violet added, stressing that young people have “lacked both real choice in the matter and information about what was being chosen for us.”
In closing, she called on the audience to recognize clean, filtered air as a fundamental human right, comparable to filtered water. “We can create clean air infrastructure that is so ubiquitous and so obviously necessary, tomorrow’s children don’t even know why we need it,” she said.
Earlier this May, Violet authored an article published in the *Yale Global Health Review* focused on Los Angeles’s organized response to COVID-19. In the article, she stressed that fully eliminating the virus involves not only wearing masks but also employers providing paid sick leave and universal healthcare. Additionally, she advocated for environmental measures aimed at keeping the air clean.
Violet also urged communities to stay organized and ensure that masks are distributed free of charge to those in need, reinforcing the importance of collective action in ongoing pandemic response efforts.
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