A Different Future Was Possible: Reflections on the US Pandemic Response
Elements of the early U.S. pandemic response can help us remember that the limits of what is possible are perhaps wider than we think.
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Read more: We Haven’t ‘Learned the Lessons of COVID’ Until We Remake the Political Economy of Health We Haven’t ‘Learned the Lessons of COVID’ Until We Remake the Political Economy of Health
No one will have learned from COVID, or any such crisis, until we undo this fundamental, toxic relationship of health to capital once and for all.
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Read more: Pandemic Nihilism, Social Murder, and the Banality of Evil Pandemic Nihilism, Social Murder, and the Banality of Evil
The nihilism that the Biden administration displays is both convenient and necessary for the personnel who help intensify the pandemic’s avoidable harms.
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Read more: The Pandemic Prison The Pandemic Prison
The pandemic prison is a harbinger, not an aberration, of the society that creates and maintains it.
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Read more: Against American Public Health Exceptionalism Against American Public Health Exceptionalism
Americans are no doubt conditioned to expect spectacular failure in the face of public health crises.
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Read more: Creating Brain-Forward Policies Amid a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’ Creating Brain-Forward Policies Amid a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’
We know that COVID can affect our brains in ways both serious and subtle. How can our law and policy infrastructure understand and deal with its effects?
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Read more: Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed how U.S. health law and policy fails to protect people in custody.
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Read more: Countercyclical Aid Is Not Enough to Fix the Broken US Approach to Public Health Financing Countercyclical Aid Is Not Enough to Fix the Broken US Approach to Public Health Financing
The model of countercyclical federal aid is fundamentally inadequate when applied to the realm of public health.
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Read more: The Years of Magical Thinking: Pandemic Necrosecurity Under Trump and Biden The Years of Magical Thinking: Pandemic Necrosecurity Under Trump and Biden
Death represents the de facto solution to many of the conundrums posed by the pandemic.
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Read more: Introduction to the Symposium: Health Law and Policy in an Era of Mass Suffering Introduction to the Symposium: Health Law and Policy in an Era of Mass Suffering
In this symposium, our hope is to acknowledge — and mourn — this current era of mass suffering and death.
