So "can we shut everything down again" as a public health ask is problematic

a. we didn't do it to begin with. offices? yup, those largely shut down. but trash collection? ag workers? truck drivers?

'essential workers' kept working, and they're largely marginalized folks.
so really it's "can we shut down stuff where largely white, largely middle or upper class folks work again"

b. the false choice of "everything open" or "everything closed" ignores the best scientific evidence we have of how to prevent transmission of SARS-CoV-2
We actually have pretty good data on what's driving transmission. Yet our "leaders" choose to let bars operate and they choose to let in door dining (whether it's inside a building or inside a plastic bubble on the sidewalk) happen anyway.
They choose not to require masks. They choose not to decarcerate, not to fund HCBS, not to produce enough rapid tests.

They choose not to support people through this pandemic (a one-time payment of $1200 isn't meaningful support during a year+ long public health emergency)
When I got to public health grad school, I started by taking an intensive summer institute on international public health.

It confirmed for me what I had suspected: in the U.S. we so often fail to look at work being done in other countries–even groundbreaking, wildly successful
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