After the Spanish flu, the President has announced The lesson that health authorities took

away from the catastrophe was that it was no longer reasonable to blame an individual
for catching an infectious disease, nor to treat him or her in isolation. The 1920s saw
many governments embracing the concept of socialized medicine—healthcare for all,
delivered free at the point of delivery. Russia was the first country to put in place a
centralized public healthcare system, which it funded via a state-run insurance scheme,
and others in Western Europe followed suit. The United States took a different route,
preferring employer-based insurance schemes, but it also took measures to consolidate
healthcare in the post-flu years. This vision was gradually adopted across the world: the
new medicine would be not only biological and experimental, but also sociological.
WHO came into existence, in 1946 . Pandemic preparedness is fraught with
epistemic uncertainty, as well as the difficulties of showing that investments
are effective. These inherent problems, combined with politicians’ fear of
voter outcome bias, generated the perfect storm for pandemic
unpreparedness, and laid the groundwork for the COVID-19 crisis. It is clear
that the majority of developed countries were unprepared for COVID-19, with
widespread shortages in medical equipment and hospital capacity. One can
only imagine the situation in developing countries that struggled to provide
basic health care services before the outbreak. This should be a wake-up call
for governments to invest in health care capacity. Militaries keep stockpiles of
weapons and run simulation exercises in preparation for war
In higher education many universities and colleges are replacing traditional exams with
online assessment tools. This is a new area for both teachers and students, and
assessments will likely have larger measurement error than usual(Coping strategies
and narratives of self-help)
- Self-investment in becoming entrepreneurial
- Self-investment in workplace adaptability
- Self-investment in being financially agile
- Self-investment in global knowledge
- Self-investment in personal health
- Other points
Reaction Limit migrant access to servi
Resistance  Protect public services
o Watch out for education, healthcare, etc.
- Re-regulate business globally
- Increase public spending
It’s called the Green New Deal. Instead of rescuing the dirty industries of the last century,
we should be boosting the clean ones that will lead us into safety in the coming century. If
there is one thing history teaches us, it’s that moments of shock are profoundly volatile. We
either lose a whole lot of ground, get fleeced by elites and pay the price for decades, or we
win progressive victories that seemed impossible just a few weeks earlier. This is no time to
lose our nerve. The future will be determined by whoever is willing to fight harder for the
ideas they have lying around.
"Big Pharma's" greed has killed millions of people in the developing world.
pharmaceutical companies do prioritize profits over lives and the death toll caused by that policy
is still growing. But it also bears mentioning that in 2011, 60 percent of HIV-infected individuals
who would benefit from treatment (as judged by the standards set when treatments were
becoming available) were receiving it. Pharmaceutical companies showed no interest in lowering
prices until developing world generics manufacturers took matters into their own hands, ignoring
the patents altogether.
"And if that price is unreachably high to people in the developing world—Africa and Asia, South
America—that's just too bad. Those people must die." "
The first is the ‘rollback’ regime associated most commonly with the 1980s and
1990s when efforts to build universal primary health care systems around the
world were undermined by Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) and
associated forms of austerity and market rule. This rollback regime of neoliberal
conditionalization led to widespread health service cutbacks, user fees, and other
market-driven reforms that effectively replaced plans for ‘health for all’ with more
selective and exclusionary approaches. The second neoliberal regime has been
rolled-out in part as a response to the resulting gaps in care and associated
forms of suffering and ill-health. Where the rollback regime enforced
disinvestment, the ‘rollout’ regime insists instead on prioritizing investment. But
even as it thereby addresses the health risks produced by financialized neoliberal
conditionalization, this reformed rollout regime has doubled-down on selectivity
by adapting calculations from global finance to manage global health
interventions. This emphasis on rationed and targeted life-saving investment is
theorized here as illustrating a shift from the rollback regime’s Laissez-
faire ‘macro market fundamentalism’ to an Aidez-faire rollout of ‘micro market
foster-care’.

 how higher temperatures, severe weather events and rising seas can contribute to
heat-related cardiopulmonary illness, infectious disease and mental-health issues.
Societal factors such as poverty, discrimination, access to health care and pre-
existing health conditions make some populations even more vulnerable.
Climate change is a public-health issue. It has been linked to chronic conditions,
such as kidney disease, depression and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and
can shove the body’s response to existing environmental assaults into overdrive.
For example, people with asthma often experience more attacks during extreme
heat and cold weather.
scientific evidence about the causes of climate change has mounted and as a
consensus has evolved in the scientific community, the public has remained divided
and large, important parts of the political class have been indifferent. For instance,
although 2017 was a year of 16 different billion-dollar natural disasters, [4] according to
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the percentage of voters who
were “very concerned” about climate change stayed within the 40% range–where it
has been rather stubbornly stuck for the past two years. [5] The following chart shows
Gallup public opinion polling for the past two decades. [6] During this period, but
especially in the most recent decade, about a third to almost half of the public believes
that the seriousness of global warming is generally exaggerated.