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This is the single best piece on pandemic preparedness that I’ve read in three years. From the White House to the Gates Foundation, from the CDC to the various think tanks pondering these issues, you’ve got to take what Anne Sosin and Martha Lincoln say here and act on it. Biomedical approaches, alone, are desperately insufficient to meet the coming plague. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/pandemic-preparation-social-conditions/
@gregggonsalves A couple of observations: 1) I'm not sure what was meant by this "Once the virus breached biosafety systems that had been lauded as impenetrable," and 2) through the political lens, there is one party in the U.S. that would be willing to at least attempt many necessary conditions for preparedness, and one party that would (does) actively obstruct them at every turn, favoring mass death to action. Politics is integral to how many people died and will die in future from pandemics.
@gregggonsalves And meaningful indoor ventilation standards please
The problem is that we can’t even get decent healthcare into some communities for plain wrap, but deadly diseases. We have areas with no hospitals or with hospitals that no longer offer OB/infant delivery care. We have climate change stepping on our necks. In today’s political environment I just can’t see us fully preparing for a future pandemic w/ a 38% probability rate.
Sorry for the negative comment. I’ve been around for several decades, but my pessimism is relatively new.
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Would add this statement: "A case for #publichealth as a prominent ethical value." https://www.demingheadlight.com/2023/04/21/covid-19-new-phase-lost-opportunity/ NB: This is largely about giving up on widespread data/information distribution (or as I once heard someone say, "if you don't measure it, it doesn't exist."
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h/t (because always credit) @algernon
@gregggonsalves Excellent article. Thank you.