Last August, China confined 300 million of its inhabitants. France is preparing to face its eighth wave of COVID-19, a pandemic from which hundreds of Americans continue to die every day. And for a few months now, we have been hearing more and more about monkeypox.
So I  wonder, how many more infectious diseases do we have to endure before we decide to change things politically?

LILY MEDICI

Tacoma, Washington



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