Running Cover for Death: Pandemic Minimizers Normalize an Inhumane Baseline
We should resist the temptation to justify the present level of death as better than some counterfactual.
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Read more: Learning from the ‘COVID War’ Learning from the ‘COVID War’
Preventing pandemic destruction is not just a question of “how to.” It is a question of organizing power from below.
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Read more: COVID-19 as Disability Interest Convergence? COVID-19 as Disability Interest Convergence?
During the pandemic, disability rights have been negotiable and vulnerable to sacrifice in service of the needs of able-bodied, neurotypical people.
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Read more: A Different Future Was Possible: Reflections on the US Pandemic Response 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: Depoliticizing Social Murder in the COVID-19 Pandemic Depoliticizing Social Murder in the COVID-19 Pandemic
The present pandemic nightmare is an especially acute manifestation of capitalist society’s tendency to kill many, regularly.
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Read more: Introduction to the Symposium: Build Back Better? Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID Introduction to the Symposium: Build Back Better? Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID
This symposium aims to address the critical junctures of health, disability, and work at the heart of the domestic policy response to COVID-19.
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Read more: Please Keep Your Masks On Please Keep Your Masks On
Wearing masks in common, indoor spaces is such a small, easy, powerful act to help prevent the spread of disease.
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Read more: A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 4: Winter of Death (December 2021 – Present) A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 4: Winter of Death (December 2021 – Present)
The Biden administration decided to go full speed ahead into a wave of Omicron infection, even as other countries have introduced targeted restrictions.
