This Is Not Normal
In which John considers the fragility of everything, and a potential reversal of human progress for the first time in generations. SOURCES: Poverty and Health Graphs come from Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty-in-brief https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/tuberculosis-deaths-region https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality Info on historical rates of child mortality came from Statista https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041693/united-states-all-time-child-mortality-rate/ Percentage of U.S.-born people living to 20 is from the SSA: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html The total "pause" on foreign aid: https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-order-freezing-foreign-aid-halts-programs-worldwide-prompts-confusion-and-rush-for-waivers-af2b6ece ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! https://werehere.beehiiv.com/subscribe Learn more about our project to help Partners in Health radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone: https://www.pih.org/hankandjohn If you're able to donate $2,000 or more to this effort, please join our matching fund: https://pih.org/hankandjohnmatch If you're in Canada, you can donate here: https://pihcanada.org/hankandjohn
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This is not normal, or natural, or inevitable. youtu.be/ZfBkw0j-QIs?...
1850View on BlueskyWe are proud to be supporting this progress! youtu.be/ZfBkw0j-QIs?...
This is a really important video about the progress that has been accomplished in saving lives from preventable diseases around the world, and how easy it is for that progress to be undone.
Since RFK, Jr. is in the hot seat today, I thought I'd share this from John Green. Vaccines are good. Not dying of a preventable childhood illness is good.
âAbout 120 billion modern humans have ever lived and most never saw the age of 20. If youâre born in the United States now you have a 99.1% chance of living to the age of 20. After 300,000 years of not being able to get half of people to adulthood we now know how to get 99% of people there.â
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfBk... @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social has been one of my favorite voices on the internet for over a decade (also sorry John, I am among your viewers who was born after you graduated high school)
"Even a couple of weeks without TB treatment gives the bacteria a chance to evolve resistance, which makes the infection much more likely to be fatal, but also means there is more drug resistant tuberculosis." www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfBk...
Thank you, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social.
Bröderna Green har en förmÄga att sÀga saker som jag fortsÀtter att tÀnka pÄ. HÀr Àr John, som bland annat nÀmner att barndödligheten i vÀrlden (barn som dör före 5 Ärs Älder) har minskat med 50% sedan 1994.
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social does a nice job breaking down how everyone benefits from public health and how interrelated these systems are. The most âpro lifeâ presidentâs actions will cost lives, but his supporters just donât care or believe it will affect them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfBk...
Good points in this video about the staggering gains we've made against child mortality and diseases like TB -- and how all of this progress isn't "natural." It requires maintenance and effort. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfBk...
A resonating monologue youtu.be/ZfBkw0j-QIs?...
This is not normal. I couldn't get the point across better than he. #medsky #doSomething
Did you know that childhood mortality rates are down 59% over the last ~30 years? It's true, and we did that! Our sustained efforts at making sure children grow into adults were successful. For now. But it can be undone. Trump's administration is doing just that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfBk...
Their cruelty is their whole point. This is not normal. Join your local SURJ group, call your rep, and do something. youtube.com/watch?v=ZfBk...
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