COVID-19 triggers urgent questions about the social, political and ethical implications of care markets, practices and relations. This article presents analysis of the Houses of the Oireachtas Special Committee on Covid-19 Response exposing current discourses about care in Ireland. Utilising the Trace analysis method (Sevenhuijsen, 2004), grounded in feminist care ethics, reveals a state accountability exercise grappling with the failures of the care market and the inhumanity of congregated settings. Care discourses were constrained by a focus on the formal health system, normalisation of binary care giver and care receiver categorisations and a lack of recognition of gendered inequalities of care in homes and workplaces. Public discourse and feminist analysis revealed unreasonable labour conditions for women working in health and social care and a silencing of the voices of those with care needs. The article contributes to a reconceptualisation of care in post-pandemic futures and urges societal co-responsibility for ‘universal care’.

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追踪国家对 COVID-19 的责任：代表爱尔兰应对大流行病的关怀

COVID-19 引发了有关护理市场、实践和关系的社会、政治和伦理影响的紧迫问题。本文介绍了 Oireachtas 特别委员会关于 Covid-19 应对措施的分析，揭示了爱尔兰当前关于护理的讨论。利用以女权主义护理伦理为基础的 Trace 分析方法（Sevenhuijsen，2004 年），揭示了应对护理市场失败和聚集环境不人道的国家问责制。护理话语受到对正规卫生系统的关注、二元护理者和护理者分类的正常化以及对家庭和工作场所护理的性别不平等缺乏认识的限制。公共话语和女权主义分析表明，从事卫生和社会护理工作的妇女的劳动条件不合理，需要护理的人的声音被压制。这篇文章有助于重新定义大流行后未来的护理概念，并敦促社会对“普遍护理”承担共同责任。