Healthcare workers across the country have been protesting vaccine mandates and they almost couldn’t be more cliché. They claim they have no options, no choice. Now, I don’t care if it’s COVID deniers, homophobes, transphobes, racists or whichever brand new bigot is hot on the block, they all screech about the same damn thing: My …
Physicians, nurses, medical researchers, and other healthcare and life-sciences professionals are not saints. As human as anyone else, they individually and the arenas in which they work can be riddled with biases that range from racial microaggressions to outright bigotry. Medical science itself is frequently skewed by racism, as well as other factors like sexism …
Out of all the anti-vax myths to stick around these 18 months, the one that bothers me the most is COVID isn’t really a problem if you’re “healthy.” Somehow this misconception persists despite the well-documented, ongoing and debilitating effects of long COVID amongst everyone, the young and healthy included. The problem, of course is that …