This episode begins with biographical/medical details of Walker and @death__denial's respective illnesses.

Then, Walker and @death__denial discuss the biopolitics of acute versus chronic illnesses and how they have played out in public health agencies' response to Covid-19 and its long-term sequelae.

Topics include just-world theory and how it plays into political schisms over Long Covid. Interspersed in the episode are discussions of the philosophy and poetics of life and death. 

Edited by Rene Joly.