Structural inequalities and identity processes are pivotal to understanding public response to COVID‐19. We discuss how identity processes can be used to promote community‐level support, safe normative behaviour, and increase compliance with guidance. However, we caution how government failure to account for structural inequalities can alienate vulnerable groups, inhibit groups from being able to follow guidance, and lead to the creation of new groups in response to illegitimate treatment. Moreover, we look ahead to the longitudinal impacts of inequalities during pandemics and advise government bodies should address identity‐based inequalities to mitigate negative relations with the public and subsequent collective protest.

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危机中的不平等和身份流程：促进安全应对 COVID-19 大流行的建议。


结构性不平等和身份认同过程对于理解公众对 COVID-19 的反应至关重要。我们讨论如何使用身份流程来促进社区层面的支持、安全规范行为并提高对指导的遵守程度。然而，我们警告政府如果未能考虑到结构性不平等，可能会疏远弱势群体，阻碍群体遵循指导，并导致创建新群体来应对非法待遇。此外，我们展望了大流行期间不平等的纵向影响，并建议政府机构应解决基于身份的不平等问题，以减轻与公众的负面关系和随后的集体抗议。