Thread by @wormmaps

Half a million dead. It speaks to the complete and total failure of the American healthcare system. If you come out of this pandemic with the audacity to see pandemics as part of your expertise, and that's not at the front of your list of failures, you're doing your job wrong

There is no talking about pandemics without talking about the moral bankruptcy and structural rotten fucking wood that is a for-profit, privatized, fragmented, discriminatory healthcare system. There is literally nothing but this to talk about anymore

I've spent my entire life working on climate, I've ground myself into a pulp for the last 3 years working on climate + health, and if I had to choose between a global conversation about climate-and-pandemics and a conversation about U.S. healthcare, I'd pick the latter

Though of course the big galaxy brain take is that they're the same thing, because if you're trying to figure out what we do about climate-and-pandemics, SOLVE THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM SO HALF A MILLION PEOPLE DON'T DIE AGAIN

Anyway everyone should be worried their think tank will be the last one to back universal healthcare in the U.S. as a policy solution because hoo boy, that’s cringe!