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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For over a year prisoners were denied our most fundamental support systems.
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I will be direct: schools that have officially departed from masking are stating an ongoing commitment to purposeful exclusion.
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The pandemic prison is a harbinger, not an aberration, of the society that creates and maintains it.
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Americans are no doubt conditioned to expect spectacular failure in the face of public health crises.
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