Not to be a killjoy, but to be a killjoy:

There's been good HIV meds for 25 yrs.

Yet, the better part of a million (mostly nonwhite) ppl still die of AIDS every yr.

Absent an anti-capitalist, anti-racist approach, medicine alone will not end our current (or any) pandemic

To put our challenge in perspective, it took abt 15 yrs from the 1st known AIDS death to get to a million deaths/ yr.

We're approaching 1.5 mil deaths in 1st yr of COVID.

Absent an anti-capitalist, anti-racist approach, medicine alone will not end our current (or any) pandemic

Any vaccine will help, a LOT.

But SARS-CoV-2 is a FAR more transmittable virus than HIV. BY FAR.

Drugs are but one tool for what will be an endemic challenge.

Absent an anti-capitalist, anti-racist approach, medicine alone will not end our current (or any) pandemic

Neoliberals always want seemingly simple technological solutions to cure complex historical, economic & social problems.

Drugs can reproduce or make worse disparities.

Absent an anti-capitalist, anti-racist approach, medicine alone will not end our current (or any) pandemic

The idea that we're all on our own & illness is each person's indiv failing is wrong—esp. w a respiratory virus as casually spread as SARS-CoV-2.

Absent an anti-capitalist, anti-racist approach, medicine alone will not end our current (or any) pandemic https://twitter.com/News_8/status/1329135843093733378

What we need is the opposite of individual blame: A multi-national, multi-generational approach of interdependence to address this crisis collectively.

For absent an anti-capitalist, anti-racist approach, medicine alone will not end our current (or any) pandemic.

Gnite

And as @aldatweets can tell ya, all this applies to climate change, too https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1329675887814602752

A case analysis on this point from @JuliaLMarcus. Pharmacological interventions are NOT devoid of political, racial or economic conflict...in fact, they often bring these existing conflicts into sharp relief https://twitter.com/julialmarcus/status/1307024325996875776

Absent an anti-capitalist, anti-racist approach, medicine alone will not end our current (or any) pandemic.

In fact, drugs can *increase* health disparities, as certain sectors of society become structurally immune when a virus lodges in a smaller pool of ppl.