An epidemiological take on abortion: banning abortions will not stop abortions. "With increased desperateness, the rate of illegal and unsafe abortions will start increasing, or people will be forced to have an unwanted pregnancy." [yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com]
The WHO estimates that between 13.3 million and 16.6 million people have died because of the pandemic, in line with other such estimates and far exceeding the official death toll (~5.4 million). [who.int]
Rebecca Solnit on how Americans can fight back to protect abortion rights. "They're building a broad constituency of opposition, and it is up to us to make that their fatal mistake." [theguardian.com]
This study suggests that unvaccinated people raise the the health and safety risks in vaccinated people "in a manner disproportionate to the fraction of unvaccinated people in the population". [cmaj.ca]
The case against the Supreme Court of the United States. "The Court was the midwife of Jim Crow, the right hand of union busters, and the dead hand of the Confederacy, and is now one of the chief architects of America's democratic decline." [vox.com]
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