Unmasking Public Health
It is time for our public health entities to reinvigorate their role as a force of legal and moral suasion to protect the public’s health.
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Read more: Overhauling our Federal Courts to Preserve and Advance Public Health Overhauling our Federal Courts to Preserve and Advance Public Health
Judicial partisanship is a major threat to public health. Congress should implement reforms to address this problem at its roots.
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Read more: Personal Crusades for Public Health Personal Crusades for Public Health
Public health in the U.S. has collapsed. In its place, we are left with an insufficient, impoverished alternative: personal crusades.
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Read more: Could Amtrak’s Quiet Car Be a Model for COVID-19 Travel Policies? Could Amtrak’s Quiet Car Be a Model for COVID-19 Travel Policies?
Amtrak, airlines, public transit, and other transportation companies should provide must-mask options for passengers who need or want them.
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Read more: In-Flight COVID Transmission: Surveying the Liability Landscape In-Flight COVID Transmission: Surveying the Liability Landscape
Do airlines have legal obligations to manage the risk of in-flight infections?
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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: The Mask-Optional DEI Initiative The Mask-Optional DEI Initiative
I will be direct: schools that have officially departed from masking are stating an ongoing commitment to purposeful exclusion.
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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 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.
