Hi y'all, please consider subscribing to the Editorial Board! @johnastoehr has given me the chance to write for a public forum, which is a dream come true. He's also featuring work from a variety of writers on topics from COVID, abortion law, systemic racism, & housing policy
To give you some examples, I wrote about medical racism and how this extends far beyond the doctor's office. Our society doesn't just mistreat Black Americans. We also judge and blame Black Americans for their own suffering & undervalue their pain. editorialboard.com/p/george-floyd…
I also wrote about how Republicans are not just hypocritical about markets, they've never really advocated for functional markets in the first place. editorialboard.com/p/the-market-i…
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I hope you'll consider subscribing! I'll also note that @johnastoehr is a great editor. He makes what I write better & forgives me for fudging word counts. He's also not yet called me out for our deep ideological difference over the Oxford Comma. So, good boss, is what I'm saying
(And I promise, @johnastoehr, to work on the commas for your sake. Even if every deletion feels about as intuitive as snipping off one of my fingers).

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23 Jul
First, abortion is not an infectious disease. Second, this precedent is actually not new. We've actually been rather lax about COVID restrictions compared to other infectious disease control. When I had TB, I would have gone to jail if I refused treatment or broke quarantine
Here's what I went through w/ TB: random check ups to ensure I was quarantined. Supervised medicine over the course of 7 months. Literally had pills delivered to me every day, unwrapped, counted, and popped in my mouth. I wasn't allowed to touch them unsupervised.
There is a lot of hardcore infectious disease control happening behind the scenes. People just didn't see it before COVID. It's why we don't have a big issue w/ TB anymore! You are legally mandated to be treated. Requiring a vaccine for employment is child's play compared to that
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23 Jul
One reason why this is a big deal? It brings HIV prevention into line with other infectious disease prevention. The federal government is taking steps to do for HIV what they have done for diseases like COVID and Tuberculosis.
I've talked about my own experience with TB before. The government poured money into my treatment in order to prevent others from being infected. They have also, clearly, invested in COVID.
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22 Jul
I did not dismiss any such reporting. I criticized a particular kind of journalism that relies on coughing up connections that invite substance-less inferences about malfeasance. Journalism-by-insinuation is not a good way to get at the truth.
From what I've read, it seems like NSOGroup is worthy of a lot of criticism and/or examination. SKDK's decision to briefly do PR for them (ending in 2019) is also interesting. What was the PR? What did SKDK know about NSO's practices? Why did SKDK stop doing PR for them?
I'd be happy to see reporting on this. And I would not defend SKDK if they were aware of unethical business practices & engaged in PR to cover them up.

But I wasn't informed by @kenvogel's tweet about any of this. It was much more in the vein of throwing spaghetti at the wall.
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21 Jul
I feel like this misunderstands the American political atmosphere. Those who are highly tuned into this process are already partisan. FOX news will succeed at convincing their audience the process is bad no matter what. Non-partisans will either ignore it or tune in irregularly
And Democrats shouldn't change their behavior based on how the GOP will spin it. It would be the political equivalent planning all your behavior to counteract the future narrative of an increasingly fascistic cheshire cat. There's no way to actually succeed on this path.
Better for Democrats to accept that the propaganda is going to exist no matter what & to counteract it when it comes. When planning their own activities, they should just do what they think is right.
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20 Jul
There is not a one-to-one mapping between economic systems & prioritizing profit over human/environmental needs. Countries with socialism, communism, or varying degrees of nationalization can also have profit motivations that lead to bad human & environmental outcomes.
The USSR was a notorious polluter & engaged in massive deforestation. Russia is currently warming at a faster pace than the rest of the planet. Part of Ukraine is still sealed off due to Chernobyl. Also unfair labor practices were widespread and human welfare was poor.
China is a massive polluter and also has unfair labor practices, including child labor. Venezuela is suffering from a lot of pollution due to oil production and, again, human welfare is poor. PEMEX, the Mexican oil company that caused the ocean fire, is state-owned.
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20 Jul
I'd be a lot less irritated by this whole "private space" thing if Bezos used some of his unfathomable fortune to alleviate some Americans' medical debt and paid his damn taxes
People make a lot of exaggerated claims about how many problems billionaires could truly solve in a sustainable way. Also, the charity model stinks & we need a stronger welfare state

That said, surely Bezos could have made some kind of generous gesture w/ this giant pile of $$
My point here is that I really wouldn't have a problem with someone funding their own space travel as long as they did nice things for other people. If Warren Buffett or George Soros wanted to employ a bunch of engineers to launch them into space, I'd be like, "Okay, that's fine"
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