emeritrix on Nostr: So, someone alerted me to this headline from the New York Post, so I read the BMJ ...
So, someone alerted me to this headline from the New York Post, so I read the BMJ editorial they were reporting on, and this is what the BMJ said but the Post did not say or only said in part, way down at the end of the article.
The very high death rate in the USA predated the pandemic and came from "systemic racism and economic inequality; mass incarceration and poor prison health; labour market inequalities; legal infrastructure; and the diminished role of the public sector"
"the nation’s pre-existing structural and systemic features . . . magnified the pandemic’s impact. These include gaps in healthcare and public health systems, the absence of social safety nets and workplace protections, social inequality, and systemic racism."
Underfunding/disinvestment in public health (CDC and state and local health depts).
BUT "Successes to Build ON" include "expanded unemployment benefits, food assistance programmes, a moratorium on evictions, expanded child health insurance coverage and Medicaid enrolment, and federal funding for public school upgrades"
Also, the Post stresses schools shouldn't have been closed so long, but the BMJ says that schools could have reopened sooner WITH improved ventilation (how many schools actually got improved ventilation? Well the ones attended by the kids of the CDC directors did, but elsewhere? public schools? Yeah, not so much. Parents are begging schools to let them add CR boxes).
The Post imagines that closing parks, playgrounds, and beaches "forced people to remain indoors" which is pretty laughable.
The Post does sort of accurately note the problem of misguided devotion to droplet dogma and the failures of information (which they add to, of course).
No mention in the Post of the BMJ's observation of the "Trump government bungling the federal response"
And the BMJ should acknowledge we are still in the current pandemic.
But still.
Anyone reading this is likely already aware of the streams of misinformation & c. But still.
https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj.q150
#Misinformation
#CovidIsNotOver #PandemicSolidarity
#BringBackMasks
The very high death rate in the USA predated the pandemic and came from "systemic racism and economic inequality; mass incarceration and poor prison health; labour market inequalities; legal infrastructure; and the diminished role of the public sector"
"the nation’s pre-existing structural and systemic features . . . magnified the pandemic’s impact. These include gaps in healthcare and public health systems, the absence of social safety nets and workplace protections, social inequality, and systemic racism."
Underfunding/disinvestment in public health (CDC and state and local health depts).
BUT "Successes to Build ON" include "expanded unemployment benefits, food assistance programmes, a moratorium on evictions, expanded child health insurance coverage and Medicaid enrolment, and federal funding for public school upgrades"
Also, the Post stresses schools shouldn't have been closed so long, but the BMJ says that schools could have reopened sooner WITH improved ventilation (how many schools actually got improved ventilation? Well the ones attended by the kids of the CDC directors did, but elsewhere? public schools? Yeah, not so much. Parents are begging schools to let them add CR boxes).
The Post imagines that closing parks, playgrounds, and beaches "forced people to remain indoors" which is pretty laughable.
The Post does sort of accurately note the problem of misguided devotion to droplet dogma and the failures of information (which they add to, of course).
No mention in the Post of the BMJ's observation of the "Trump government bungling the federal response"
And the BMJ should acknowledge we are still in the current pandemic.
But still.
Anyone reading this is likely already aware of the streams of misinformation & c. But still.
https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj.q150
#Misinformation
#CovidIsNotOver #PandemicSolidarity
#BringBackMasks