"Their results say that 3% of participants' actual lives might've been saved by Replika. That means 3% of participants are tethered to life by a venture funded tech company that can simply disappear at any time, or, more likely, decide to charge more money, because they can. How much are you willing to pay to not die tomorrow?"
"Increasingly, despair is considered a national security issue as well as a health crisis." no of course we don't live in a dystopia, why do you ask
"This online library contains many of the important papers that have been published on Long Covid. We’ve gone through most of them (as we do on a daily basis) and can say for sure that the collection of papers in here are of great value for getting a good understanding of Long Covid."
nytimes is normally publication non grata round these parts but I make an exception for Giorgia Lupi's powerful piece on long covid
"It should also be stressed that this radical shift in our approach to emerging infectious diseases is probably only the beginning of wiping out the hard-fought public health gains of the last 150+ years. This should be gravely concerning to any individuals and institutions concerned with workers and citizens rights. "
"Whiteness encourages whites to reject policies designed to help the poor and reduce inequality because of animosity toward people of color as well as being unaware that the poor include a great many white people."