Death Panel

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We speak with Nate Holdren about Friedrich Engels' concept of "social murder" and the social and political processes that have enabled the pandemic to be portrayed as if nothing more could be done.

Read Nate's piece "Depoliticizing Social Murder in the COVID-19 Pandemic" here: https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/03/21/depoliticizing-social-murder-covid-pandemic/

TRANSCRIPT: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/social-murder-with-nate-holdren

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Elizabeth Popp Berman joins us to discuss how what she calls the "economic style of reasoning" came to dominate US political debates in the 20th century, and the way it continues to constrain what is understood to be politically possible.

Elizabeth Popp Berman is Associate Professor of Organizational Studies at the University of Michigan. FInd her new book, Thinking Like An Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy, here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691167381/thinking-like-an-economist#

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We discuss a troubling new report that, according to CDC data, 40 percent of U.S. covid deaths in January and February were in people who were fully vaccinated.

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We discuss the abrupt end of the transportation mask mandate, what people really mean when they assert that "We Have the Tools," and Benjamin Mazer's awful new Atlantic piece, "It’s Just Scaring People, and It’s Not Saving Lives."

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This episode was recorded prior to the CDC's decision to appeal the ruling we discuss in the episode; our points stand.

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Part Two of our story of Section 504 continues with a look at the sit-in action itself—the longest occupation of a federal government building in U.S. history—and the key role played by the Oakland Black Panthers and other groups in assuring the occupation's success.

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We tell the story of Section 504, a landmark piece of civil rights legislation for disabled people in the U.S., and how it very nearly didn't happen because of concerns that passing it would be "too expensive."

This is Part One of our conversation on Section 504. Find Part Two on our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65302819

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We discuss Jeff Zients' resignation party, the Gridiron dinner superspreader event, and Leana Wen's Washington Post op-ed "The Gridiron Club outbreak shows what living with covid-19 looks like."

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Many point to Sweden as evidence that lockdowns and school closures were unnecessary and harmful. But what actually happened in Sweden? David Steadson joins us to talk about Sweden's herd immunity strategy, government documents that show what really happened there in 2020, and the lasting population effects of long covid.

David Steadson is a co-author of the paper "Evaluation of science advice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden," published by Nature’s Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications in March. You can read the full paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01097-5

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With the future of pandemic-era healthcare expansions in flux, we dive into the details of last week's House Oversight hearing on Medicare for All, the first time Congress has held a hearing on single payer since 2019. What has changed about the debate since then? Perhaps more worryingly: what hasn't?

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We speak with Jules Gill-Peterson about Texas Governor Greg Abbott's declaration in February that affirming the identities of trans children is child abuse and her recent piece "We, the Abuser State."

Jules Gill-Peterson is Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, General Co-Editor at Transgender Studies Quarterly, and the author of Histories of the Transgender Child.

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