Louise Aronson
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1,082 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2019
last heard Jul 2024
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So we're not and that's actually kind of a twofer or maybe a threefer societally.
Right.
Because you're you're not protecting the old people.
You're not protecting the workers who are the poor people and often the people from the communities of color who are also disproportionately getting sick.
Instead, you're giving it to the advantaged physicians at the advantaged hospitals.
So then we say, oh, it's this nursing home travesty.
And yes, are there things about nursing home policy and the way nursing homes are run that are contributing to this without question?
But it is also our national policies and our health system and public health systems' failure to acknowledge that these people matter and deserve PPE.
On an even bigger scale, I don't know if you guys saw, Sid Mukherjee had an article on
early June or early May in the New Yorker.
And he talked about how in Japan they'd had a crisis and they repurposed factories to make equipment.
Like it was a car factory.
I'm not going to get this right.
And they repurposed other factories so that they could avert this national crisis and meet a need in a key manufacturing sector.
So we could, as a nation, have way more N95s.
I spent part of this morning looking up, you know.
K-95 versus N-95, you know, are they as good?
They say, okay, we've got to use it because that's all we have, but we can't.
CDC says we can't follow the manufacturing chain.
We could, as a country, be making, I mean, you know, five, six months, we could have been making N-95s.
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