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The Big One: How To Prepare for World-Altering Pandemics to Come

by Michael T. Osterholm

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Jul 03, 2026 01:28PM

“If you live in this system of white supremacy, you are either fighting the system of you are complicit. There is no neutrality to be had towards systems of injustice, it is not something you can just opt out of.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

tags: equality, fighting, injustice, pick-a-side, white-supremacy

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“If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: dreamer, imagination, liar, make-believe, poetry, wisher, wishes

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“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

tags: acceptance, friendship

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“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
― Mary Wortley Montagu

tags: reading

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“We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.”
― bell hooks, Home Grown: engaged cultural criticism

tags: imperialism, patriarchy, white-supremacy

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