It’s time to build a society where you don’t lose your job if you don’t go to work when you’re sick.
It’s time to build a society where you don’t lose your health insurance if you lose your job.
It’s time to build a public health infrastructure that can sense emerging outbreaks, rapidly share data, coordinate with urgency and take swift action.
It’s time to build the capacity to produce PPE, masks, test kits, ventilators and vaccines when infectious diseases strike.
It’s time to build the capacity to make healthy, fresh food available to all of our people.
It’s time to build a world class public transit capacity, with robust infrastructure, sufficient service, contactless transactions and a seamless, delightful user experience.
It’s time to build protected lanes for slow-speed traffic like bikes and scooters. It’s time to build a few more sidewalks while we’re at it.
It’s time to build a ton of affordable housing and more dense, walkable communities. It’s time to build soft cities.
It’s time to build more parks.
It’s time to build homes with smart environmental controls that save energy and keep us aligned with our natural rhythms.
It’s time to build more entertainment that doesn’t require us to sit on couches staring at screens.
It’s time to build health into everyday life. http://www.buildingh.org 
This is a partial list, of course. The point is to build with intention. To build toward a goal of making all of our people healthy. What would you build?
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