The Public Health Disservice Awards aka The Snowzzies will be announced tomorrow starting at 9am est @PesteMagazine.
#Snowzzies Award #1: ACHIEVEMENT IN PUBLIC HEALTH DISSERVICE BY AN INDIVIDUAL ... Intended for an individual who has gone above and beyond to provide a disservice to public health in 2022.
#Snowzzies Award #2: "THE CLOWN CAR AWARD" ... Intended for a group or organization that has gone above and beyond to provide a disservice to public health in 2022.
#Snowzzies Award #3: ACHIEVEMENT IN CREATIVE LICENSE IN PUBLIC HEALTH COMMUNICATION ... For individual or group who has excelled in bizarre or overly embellished communication or miscommunication to the disservice of 2022 public health.
#Snowzzies Award #4: ACHIEVEMENT IN PUBLIC HEALTH DISSERVICE BY NON-PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONAL ... This is perhaps the most crowded field of contenders yet with expertise ranging from sabermetrics to parenting with no public health in-between.
#Snowzzies Award #5: ACHIEVEMENT IN BEING THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE ... They presumably do not understand that there are other people in the world whose lives also have value.
#Snowzzies Award #6: "THE DISHONORABLE MENTION" SPECIAL CONSIDERATION AWARD ... For an individual or group whose public health disservice in 2022 doesn't fit other award descriptions.
In addition to the Public Health Disservice Awards, tomorrow we also bring you a very special essay about public health's poet laureate.
And in addition to the first Public Health Disservice Awards, @PesteMagazine will also publish a new poem from Diane Seuss, the winner of 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
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If you need to be outside during an air quality advisory due to wildfire smoke, experts advise to "do you."
Preventing breathing harmful particles in wildfire smoke would be easier if only we had a way to cover our faces, maybe with some sort of a veil or protective covering.
Wildfire smoke can cause unhealthy air quality, but one way to improve the air quality is to change the metric by which we define "unhealthy." Now go out and shop!
It may seem confusing that Cornel West would endorse Ron DeSantis until you realize that West is on the board of Classic Learning Initiatives, which created the Classic Learning Test that DeSantis just approved funding for all school districts in Florida to use.
"Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB 1537 into law on May 9, 2023, making Florida the first state in the nation to fund all school districts to utilize the Classic Learning Test (CLT)" cltexam.com/clt-florida/#:….
What we learned from the 1854 cholera outbreak is that it’s more important to shame people for drinking water than holding accountable the powers that be for making the water undrinkable. That way they fight among each other and stop bothering elites.
Does shame work in public health? Public health experts say no but some of the most popular pamphleteers who told us to follow the science say yes because that’s all they’re capable of, so…maybe?
Hey friends, ACT UP isn’t founded for more than 130 years after I die. Since their legacy keeps getting thrown around to justify…shaming and criminalization (?), can someone help me understand which way they punched, up or down? I’ll be available by seance all night.
Sure, everyone knows @LHSummers is an asshole for saying women aren't as good as men at math and science and joking about dumping "toxic waste in the lowest wage country," but please remember he was also friends with Jeffrey Epstein. wsj.com/articles/jeffr…
The only thing Larry Summers @LHSummers loved more than Jeffrey Epstein was hating unemployment insurance for poor families. econlib.org/library/Enc/Un…
Does everyone remember when Larry @LHSummers convinced Bill Clinton not to sign the Kyoto Protocol and pass climate change legislation in the 90s? I do! nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB3…
Legacy media are a major reason why so many in the US are desensitized to mass death and disability, angrily opposed to empathy, and willing to accept so little from the powerful. Here are media accounts to follow instead.
A thread.
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