Gregg GonsalvesDec 30, 2022

Please read this consensus statement in Nature from last month. Lately, these common-sense recommendations are being framed as "hardline," "zero-COVID," "fringe," in the popular media and even by some from our own communities, but there is remarkable consensus among scientists on what we need to do, even if we do not want to listen. As a benchmark for our aspirations, this is a fine document. #COVID #publichealth

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05398-2

A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat - Nature

A diverse, multidisciplinary panel of 386 experts in COVID-19 response from 112 countries provides health and social policy actions to address inadequacies in the pandemic response and help to bring this public health threat to an end.

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@gregggonsalves Any civil power able to make and enforce effective public health policy can tax anybody, even billionaires.

That's what the COVID policy debacle is about; if the government can make and enforce effective public health policy, it can tax. (And decarbonize. And change the status quo in other lasting ways.)

Jan 8, 2023 at 6:05amWeb