social isolation
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On inequality and disease.
Whose lives matter enough that we shut down? Whose matter so little we won’t save them with Gatorade?
45, 77-year-old white man, 78-year-old white man, abuse, age-related disease, age-related immunosenescence, AIDS, Albuterol, Bernie Sanders, cancer risk, CDC, clean water, climate change, climate destabilization, communicable diseases, coronavirus, coronavirus coverage, coronavirus test, coronavirus testing, cost of care, cost of clean water, cost of health care, cost of inhalers, cost of medical treatment, Covid-19, Covid-19 coverage, Covid-19 epidemic, Covid-19 pandemic, Covid-19 stimulus, Covid-19 testing, damage to our economy, deaths of despair, Democratic primary, demographics, diarrhea, dirty water, domestic violence, Donald Trump, drug addiction, economy, election, epidemic, essential business, essential businesses, far right, flatten the curve, Gatorade as medicine, generational privilege, global warming, health care, HIV, HIV epidemic, HIV pandemic, ICU, inequality, infectious disease, infectious diseases, inhaler, inhalers, intensive care unit, intimate partner violence, invasive ventilation, Joe Biden, malaria, New York Times, old white men, Pandemic, PCR testing, PotUS, presidential election, presidential primary, privilege, quarantine, respiratory infection, respiratory infections, school closure, seasonal influenza, seasonal influenza versus covid-19, shutdown, social distancing, social isolation, stay at home, stay at home order, stock market, suicide, suicide risk, top causes of death, Trump, Trump administration, ventilation, ventilators, water-born illnesses, wealth, wealth inequality, World Health Organization -
On sacrifice.
Young people are scared and angry — and they have every reason to be.
45, age-related mortality, AIDS, AIDS epidemic, coronavirus, coronavirus epidemic, Covid-19, Covid-19 pandemic, Covid-19 testing, economic injustice, economic justice, epidemic, gap in education, GBI, global wealth tax, guaranteed basic income, HIV epidemic, insider trading, mortality, Pandemic, PotUS, Republican party, school closure, social isolation, stock market, Trump, U.S. politics -
On isolation.
When a government tortures people on *your* behalf, do you share the blame? If so, what should you do?
addiction, ADX, Bruce Alexander, cetacean communication, confinement, constitutional rights, deprivation tank, dolphin, dolphin communication, dolphin hand job, drug abuse, false confessions, Harry Harlow, Hell is a Very Small Place, innocent until proven guilty, isolation tank, Jeanne Theoharis, Jesse Wilson, John C. Lilly, Juan Mendez, laboratory animals, LSD, Margaret Howe, memory, morphine, opiates, Rat Park, Ray McGovern, Richard Feynman, sensory deprivation, social isolation, solitary, solitary confinement, solitary watch, stimulus deprivation, sunlight, supermax, Syed Fahad Hashmi, teaching dolphins to talk, terrorism, torture, Torture of a Student, Voices from Solitary Confinement


