Highlights
•People's places and spaces during isolation were polarized.
•Weak socioeconomic groups were voiceless in the Swedish press.
•An analysis based on the ethics of justice and care is presented.
•The hegemonic discourse was constructed as the Discourse of inequity.
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Corresponding author: Research and Development Centre, Skaraborg Hospital Skövde, Region Västra Gotaland, Sweden. E-mail address: fredrika.sundberg@his.se (F. Sundberg).
This work was supported by funding from the Nordic College of Caring Science (NCCS https://www.nccs.nu/).