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https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/3738029-an-unexpected-winner-in-the-midterms-public-health/>
"Public health was on the ballot last week — and it won.
I’m not talking about specific candidates, as important as those races are. I’m
talking about the ethos of public health — the principle that health is a
fundamental human right and the understanding that we must look out for one
another, to think not just about our own well-being, but about the public good.
That ethos has been in retreat for the past two years, beaten back by the
forces proclaiming that individual freedom trumps all. In one of many low
points, protestors targeted a breast cancer clinic in Los Angeles for requiring
masks to protect their patients, many of whom had weakened immune systems as a
result of chemotherapy and were therefore at higher risk from COVID. This
failure of empathy has been deeply disheartening.
Yet as I’ve tracked election results over the past week, I’ve found many
reasons for optimism. In blue states and in red states, voters made choices
that reflected care and concern for their fellow citizens. Again and again,
they voted to protect public health. In an extension of that trend, voters also
opted to use the levers of government to extend dignity to individuals in bleak
circumstances, such as extreme poverty, crushing debt and imprisonment."
Via
Future Crunch issue 192:
https://futurecrunch.com/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
