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Ellie
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current location: plato’s cave

mostly thinking about public health law & ethics and the latest k-drama • occasionally in 粵/한/Fr
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grant funding gone. projects half finished. devastation deepens. this reality plays out over and over again and needlessly so with the latest rescission bill.
such crises as "acute-on-chronic." Chronic impoverishment and failures of resource distribution fuel acute crises like the Ebola epi-demic. Ebola is difficult to treat even in rich countries but was al- most impossible in Sierra Leone in 2014.12 In response to the crisis, funding flooded in. Nonprofits and disaster response organizations rushed into Sierra Leone (as well as neighboring Liberia and Guinea) to build temporary Ebola Treatment Units and provide trained healthcare staff to support them. I visited one such unit in 2019 in eastern Sierra Leone. A young man who survived Ebola walked me around an abandoned seties of concrete slabs with crumbling walls. This place, the survivor ex-plained, had been imagined as a school by a nonprofit that ran out of funding, and so it was never completed. It became a makeshift Ebola treatment facility where the young man shared a cot with his son, sweating in the heat, trying to keep down Pedialyte, watching people (including his wife and mother) die all around him. And now, as he showed me the place in 2019, it was once again a ruin. The Ebola survivor explained to me this was common in Sierra Leone: People come in with a one-year or three-year grant to do this or that, and then at the end of the grant period, they leave with a half-finished project. In the case of Ebola response, Dahl said that you could "hear the sucking sound" of global money leaving as the crisis started to wind down. But for many Sierra Leoneans, hardly anything had gotten better. Yes, Ebola had been successfully addressed, but the healthcare system was weaker than ever—-clinics were no better resourced than they 12. While Ebola is often nor who've ha
July 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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currently reading: everything is tuberculosis by john green
Photo of page from a book that reads: Amid the Ebola outbreak in 2015 and 2016, Henry became very ill. He sweated through his bedsheets at night, often had fevers, and was vomiting and coughing up blood. But he also desperately wanted a normal life. Most of all, he wanted to be able to sit for his exams to get into secondary school. He knew education was the key to a successful life, a life where he might be able to travel and work, a life where he could be "a person in society," as he once wrote. But his reemergent, rampaging tuberculosis threatened to deny him those opportunities.
July 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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currently reading: “what if we get it right?” - i’m ready for some tough love
Picture of kobo excerpt kobo REALITY CHECK • 12 OF 12 be messy. It will require new ideas and technologies, and ancient ones. But we can do hard things. Onward to the glorious mess. The only way out is through. SKIP NOTES *13 I'm not usually one for cursing in print, but there's not another word that quite fits the bill here. So, yeah, I've been cursing more than usual in the past few years . *14 Shoutout to James Gaines, fact-checker extraordinaire. *15 Shoutout to the OG climate feminist. *16 "Morass," originally a term for a swamp, is also used to describe a situation that's a shitshow. Apologies to swamps, and note that the way we use language is but another example of how we disrespect nature. WHAT IF WE GET IT RIGHT? - 55 OF 1044 Picture of kobo reader exerpt: REALITY CHECK - 11 OF 12 and again that things can recover, can re-green. We can restore some balance to this magnificent planet, phase out fossil fuels, get carbon back where it belongs, salvage our ecological life-support systems. Like most things, this is not binary, not all or nothing. It's not planet destroyed or planet saved. Even degraded ecosystems can still support food security, economies, and well-being. There remains a huge spectrum of possibilities. And so many lives, livelihoods, and cultures hang in the balance. Instead of accepting the climate and biodiversity apocalypse as fated (or ignoring it), we can choose to dig our way out of this morass.[*16] As you can probably tell by now, in this book you'll find no sugar coating or downplaying of scientific projections or of the speed and scope of change required in order to birth a future where we have a chance to flourish. You also won't find wallowing. We are learning lessons and looking forward Fundamentally changing how we interact with nature and each other certainly will not be easy. This transformation will WHAT IF WE GET IT RIGHT? • 54 OF 1044
June 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM