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      To Re-Open Safely We Need a "Health Force" of Disease Detectives

      To Re-Open Safely We Need a "Health Force" of Disease Detectives

      In the long run such a workforce could help address the long-standing shortage of primary care in the United States—including community-based programming to assist families with preventive health, nutrition, exercise, chronic diseases and mental health needs.

      Sandy Smith-Nonini
      May 13, 2020

      Conservative governors are now openly at odds with epidemiologists as plans move ahead for more than half the states to loosen social distancing and permit many businesses to re-open this month despite none of them meeting White House Coronavirus Taskforce guidelines.

      Unlike re-openings in China, Hong Kong and South Korea where new cases fell rapidly after aggressive containment efforts, the United States, with nearly 1.4 million cases and over 81,000 COVID-19 deaths (as of May 11), must follow a different model.

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      No, We're Not All in This Together. How the Super-Rich Are Cheating America.

      No, We're Not All in This Together. How the Super-Rich Are Cheating America.

      Unlike the farsighted and people-oriented decision-makers in other countries, America's unregulated capitalist leaders have failed us, both in the past and in our current crisis. 

      Paul Buchheit
      Apr 27, 2020

      Media outlets keep telling us that we're all together in this pandemic. But we're not. The super-rich have separated themselves from the rest of us, with concierge medicine, private travel accommodations, isolated but well-stocked resort homes, and a variety of other advantages that allow them to look beyond the hardships endured by average Americans.

      A few billionaires have contributed to the fight against Covid-19. But Luke Hildyard, Executive Director of the High Pay Centre, says, "Very generous individual grants can obscure the fact that on the whole, wealthy people's charitable giving is pretty minimal." In the most flagrant example of disregard for the rest of us, one company has installed private 'doomsday' bunkers in New Zealand with "luxury bathrooms, game rooms, shooting ranges, gyms, theaters and surgical beds."

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      Let's Come Together in These Physically Distancing Times

      Let's Come Together in These Physically Distancing Times

      "As bad as things are, and could get, compassion and wisdom will ensure that good emerges from this."

      David Suzuki
      Apr 04, 2020

      These are difficult times, especially for people who lack safe shelter, food and other necessities -- and for those on the front lines. Even though we must maintain physical distance, we need to come together more than ever.

      As bad as things are, and could get, compassion and wisdom will ensure that good emerges from this. One hopeful trend in recent years is a growing recognition of the need to combine science with traditional Indigenous knowledge to get a more complete understanding of our place in nature and to find better ways to live within its limits.

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