"The United States has always been a terrible place to be sick and disabled. Ableism is baked into our myths of bootstrapping and self-reliance, in which health is virtue and illness is degeneracy. It is long past time for a bedrock shift, for all of us."
This article is devastating:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/09/madeline-miller-long-covid-post-pandemic/
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I met an American girl in Thailand who was teaching English up on the Burmese border where Japanese B Encephalitis (25% fatality rate) and malaria are endemic. She hadn't had the readily available vaccine against encephalitis and wasn't taking anti-malarials. I found it hard to believe that anyone could possibly be that dumb!
