1. Keep hearing "if" cv becomes a pandemic. Get real-this is more of a pandemic than anything in recent memory. When declared:
*Global response requires unprecedented global cooperation. Hard to imagine but-all fighting a common enemy.
*Key players: orgs, govts, business, pharma
*Global response requires unprecedented global cooperation. Hard to imagine but-all fighting a common enemy.
*Key players: orgs, govts, business, pharma
2. Understand the drive to make political critiques-I myself wrote a book slamming Trump on healthcare and other critiquing pharma. But for this moment again, we're on the same team, need to do the best we can with what we have in an urgent situation. How can I help?
3. Not to say pandemic and response doesnt highlight all kinds of huge inequities - it does. But long-term change and urgent situation are not the same, dont conflate. What do we need right now, what can we do right now? Who are key players? What new alliances?
4. Ie, almost unimaginable for man of us, but in this urgent moment - you want the govt, and govts (including ours!), to be bigger than themselves, and do the best jobs possible.
5/f In other words, cv both highlights urgent issues at stake in US election, and rt *now* is bigger than the US election. Leaders-be much bigger than yourselves. Pharma- treatments & vaccines. WHO-function! Communities - come together in new ways. Thats what a pandemic requires
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