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Graham Allison’s “Thucydides’ Trap”

covid “seems to be changing how humans think the world should be organized. … A quarter of a century ago, American scholars could claim with storage faces that liberal democracy had demonstrated once and for all that it was superior to all other ways of organizing society. Not anymore.”

so it seems like what the high-income counties do is only allow for vaccine production by the pharmaceutical companies that will sell to them and only them… this happened with the UK and Germany for covid. Strangely, in the early 2000s wealthy nations blocked the production of ARVs for HIV-AIDS …??????? what

“Just as the bottle was the quickest way to get out of Manchester in the early nineteenth century, the fastest way to escape the North American version of Shit Life Syndrome in the early twenty-first century is alcohol, crystal meth, or fentanyl.”

based on previous patterns of public health cuts in the UK by prime minister M. Thatcher, i am sure that the law changes and funding cuts in the United States are going to result in several thousand extra deaths in the coming years

“de-industrialisation” in places like Blackpool, England

First sub-saharan Africa was devastated by the impacts of colonialism, then by having an untested approach to improving public health thrusted upon them - an approach focused on medicine and tech, rather than fixing the roots of the problem - this is a profound example of how low-income countries have been absolutely kicked by the big world leaders time and time again.

WE NEED MORE ACCESIABLE HEALTH CARE OH MY GAWDDDDD. When it begins to cost money to visit the doctor, patients visits are gonna be reduce like 50%….

once Reagan and Thatcher were in charge during the late 70s and early 80s, less of their money was funded to the WHO and more was allocated to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. This structural adjustment to the economies had a negative impact on public health, causing governments to cut funding to health programs… sounds like what’s happening rn in the US

pg 199 mentions how Hamburg, one of the largest sea ports in northern Europe, was a prime leaving point for immigrants to the US, and many Russian Jews migrated westward to escape persecution and poverty in the late mien century. I’m wondering about the history of Jewish prosecutions before WW2, which isn’t until the early mid twentieth century