Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Moreover, the Principles can equip civil society, jurists, and others with the tools to hold their governments and powerful corporate entities accountable to the standards set by human rights. But the Principles bear relevance and were developed for all levels of governance in mind.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Though strict protocol typically governs everything in hospitals, for prisoners, those rules seem to go out the window, without deliberation. Most patients with severe COVID did not present with obvious respiratory distress. This heightens the cruelty of incarceration. I knew this would not happen.

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Bill of Health

JULY 5, 2023

This respectability, I argue, means that their recommendations are too narrow to protect Americans, much less the populations of the Global South, from pandemics ahead (barring unexpectedly marvelous advances in vaccine breadth and rapidity of deployment). They also present good ideas on the “how” side of public health.

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Bill of Health

JULY 24, 2023

We should resist the temptation to respond to death and injury by looking for ways to say the present level of death is better than some counterfactual. Unless COVID deaths are genuinely at zero, no level of death is actually good news, it’s just the absence of even worse news. We have had no such politicking in the pandemic.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 7, 2022

Beyond the standard exhortation to get vaccinated, the tools included booster shots, rapid tests, and masks. The “tools” stood for individual choices based on personal risk tolerance rather than elements of regulatory frameworks to be pursued by various levels of government. Let’s address each of these three tools.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 21, 2022

The present pandemic nightmare is the most recent and an especially acute manifestation of capitalist society’s tendency to kill many, regularly, a tendency that Friedrich Engels called “social murder.” Enough businesses must make enough money or serious social consequences follow — for them, their employees, and for government.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

government, under a right-wing prime minister, has rejected the five-day isolation period embraced by a U.S. Many of the failures of COVID Year 2 result from specific decisions by specific people in the Biden administration. s Independent SAGE that counters government policy with its own, more precautionary policy recommendations.

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