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(1/x) As an ER doc I have treated many patients who lost jobs due to the #CoronavirusOutbreak & they don't look like the protesters in the news
- chest pain/anxiety after losing job as a cook
- alcohol withdrawal after running out of $
- depression and suicidal thoughts
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- chest pain/anxiety after losing job as a cook
- alcohol withdrawal after running out of $
- depression and suicidal thoughts
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2/ There’s ample evidence that beside the economic impact, that job and income loss leads to enormous public health impacts. For example, when auto plants shut down, there are an additional ~9 opioid overdose/100,000 people five years down the line
3/ And individual-level poverty alone is associated with an estimated 130,000 deaths per year in the U.S. More job and income loss and worsening poverty will lead to loss of health insurance and contribute to worsening mortality in the short and long term
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Rant ahead: Recently, 10 african american residents of Duplin County, NC, successfully sued #smithfieldfoods for $50mil, citing noxious fumes resulting from their industrial swine lagoons. This was a huge win for the #EnvironmentalJustice and #environmentalracism movements!
Today, the win was slashed to $2.5mil from 50, based on the "Agricultural and Forestry Nuisance Bill" (house bill 467)- which, as of last year, limits damages to ONLY property value loss, completely excluding loss of quality of life.
Sponsors of the bill were NC Reps Jimmy Dixon and @JohnBellNC. Guess who their top campaign contributors are? North Carolina Pig Council, and, you guessed it, Smithfield. Tell me, gentleman- who do you really work for? Seems obvious to me. Time to drain the actual swamp.
