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1/ Public health advocates, we are no longer living under the Trump administration and we need to reset our imagination.
To not do this is to let cognitive inertia allow us embrace fatalism and mass death.
To not do this is to let cognitive inertia allow us embrace fatalism and mass death.
2/ If the prior administration got the pandemic 80% wrong, and the Biden administration is getting the pandemic 80% right, should we be satisfied with that?
NO.
Partial failures still mean mass death and mass suffering.
NO.
Partial failures still mean mass death and mass suffering.
3/ Why is the White House Chief of Staff Twitter shaming a governor for dangerous policy action when his administration has the authority to actually do much more. https://twitter.com/WHCOS/status/1358457949920899078
4/ Why did Biden take a soft stance on the Super Bowl as a public health threat?
5/ Why is paid shutdown off the table?
6/ Why are vaccine nationalism still the policy as the US hoards doses and other countries get little to none?
7/ Why are survival checks framed as stimulus for an abstract "economy," reduced to $1,400 despite promises, continued to be given as rare one-offs instead of as recurring, constructed administratively with means-testing that will keep people them?
8/ Why hasn't vaccine production been nationalized?
9/ Why aren't health justice organizers building power for all of these things? Not just one or two.
10/ Why are public health experts happy with credentialed, thoughtful, science-acknowledging people in power doing far more than their predecessors but not enough?
11/ If they're not satisfied with the US's current public health policy path, why aren't they taking a more critical stance? Why aren't they speaking widely to get others on board?
12/12 Please don't silently accept manufactured lose-lose situations, fatal fatalism, a veneer of public health seriousness, words instead of actions.
Please don't accept or resign us to or become numb to or stop caring about needless death and suffering.
Please don't accept or resign us to or become numb to or stop caring about needless death and suffering.
