"The World Health Organization pleads for immediate reversal of Gaza evacuation order to protect health and reduce suffering.

A mass evacuation would be disastrous—for patients, health workers and other civilians left behind or caught in the mass movement."

Today in @thenation.com with Arijit Chakravarty:

The Coronavirus Still Doesn’t Care About Your Feelings 

The Covid-19 pandemic is not a state of mind—and telling us not to panic isn’t healthcare.

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Today, @lookheron.bsky.social pins down one of the most confusing concepts in law: efficiency.

He covers its various meanings, how legal scholars frequently shift between these meanings, and why one should never be afraid to ask, "but what do you mean by efficiency?"
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We are in a rare window of broad US media coverage of global border violences. At our own southern slaughter line, on the waters of the Mediterranean and Aegean, through the jungles of the Darién Gap and the militarization of apartheid Israel. Editors, listen to me: You cannot allow it to close.

transit is good but we don't have to wax nostalgic for brutal transcontinental rail projects

(mansplaining the haunted house to my date) “Yeah so this is actually a really spooky part. They do spooky stuff in the whole thing but this is sorta the main spooky. I’m pretty impressed actually.”

"It’s an unprecedented day for Indigenous sovereignty and Indigenous-led coastal conservation as three federally-recognized California Tribal Nations announce the Yurok-Tolowa-Dee-ni' Indigenous Marine Stewardship Area– the first-ever ocean protection area designated by Tribal governments in the US"

An excellent excerpt from @ashleyshoo.bsky.social’s book AGAINST TECHNOABLEISM, which I highly recommend.

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'nobody cares anymore' is the descriptive and normative response that seems to crop up in most discussions about the pandemic. seems incorrect!

"Conclusion: Relative to non–health care workers, registered nurses, health technicians, and health care support workers in the US were at increased risk of suicide. New programmatic efforts are needed to protect the mental health of these US health care workers."

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Shawn Fain is right. We should all be fighting for a shorter workweek. inthesetimes.com/article/20-h...

Covid killed 4,500 young adults the first 5 months of the pandemic.

Once a doctor told them not to fear *literal death*, can we take them seriously when they sanctimoniously scold us for minimizing vaccine side effects?

My latest. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/literaldeath/

This is the way: Chicago’s vaccination at home program allows Chicagoans to register to have up to ten people at a time vaccinated in their homes. It’s an old idea that Americans have broadly supported since the early 19th century. www.chicago.gov/city/en/site...

Yet more indication that what gets measured doesn’t in fact get managed.

Disclosure and voluntary schemes will not address the lack of regulation, the limits of an emissions only approach, extractive business models and damaging power dynamics.

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answering the question, what is an academic and why are they like that?

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much to agree with on the questionable role of probability theory for thinking about and more importantly acting on ecological crisis

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

'What happens when microorganisms are hit with a 240-decibel sound wave? The short answer is nobody knows; it hasn’t been adequately studied.'

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starting a thread to collect papers on the relationship between environmental hazards and surgical outcomes.

first up - exposure to wildfire in the first 6 months of recovery from lung cancer surgery is associated with HR 1.4 for overall mortality across all stages jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...