New environmental problems of 2020
— Tired Earth (@Tiredearth) May 2, 2020
Disposed face masks used to fight #COVID19 are adding to the single-use plastics menace.
Let’s recover from the virus without destroying our environment.#Tiredearth #coronavirus #COVID__19 #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #climate @GretaThunberg pic.twitter.com/kVxDA7Lzte
Coronalitter also raises the much larger question of the pollution-loops of industrialised medicine….be in terms of pharmaceutical pollution or preventive pollution or you name it … makes me think of Hannah Landecker’s great work on the biology of history, too.
— Janina Kehr (@janinakehr) May 5, 2020
This could lead us to start discussing when and how the assemblage of boundary work, market devices, social rights for some and a chemical mobilisation of the world became part of a toxic environmental project and a potential climate catastrophe. How to rescue care from this?
— Tomás Criado (@tscriado elsewhere) (@tscriado) May 5, 2020
What drugs, gadgets and systems of community care could be invented for the times of climate catastrophe? Is that post-covid?
— Tomás Criado (@tscriado elsewhere) (@tscriado) May 5, 2020
What if Welfare was to be regarded as a form of late industrialism? What would a multi-species, cosmopolitical and uncommon reflection do to public health as we know it?
— Tomás Criado (@tscriado elsewhere) (@tscriado) May 5, 2020
@crinamoreno @AMRinterrupted what fo you think?
— Tomás Criado (@tscriado elsewhere) (@tscriado) May 5, 2020
I think a lot! I really liked reading this piece! I recall @BroomAlex wrote a bit about antibiotic waste. And I cannot even believe how much new stuff I rediscover whenever I re-read Hannah Landecker's Biology of History. Antibiotic waste also affects bacterial communities, btw
— Cristina Moreno (@crinamoreno) May 5, 2020
And it's of course tricky, but what I mean is not to call out people with disabilities who use plastic straws or asthmatic people using inhalers like me for the effects of ozone gases (to quote recurrent cases of last years), but the industrial assemblage we are made to live by
— Tomás Criado (@tscriado elsewhere) (@tscriado) May 5, 2020
So much to think about starting from question of fragile, patchwork welfare states; new forms of care 'in the cracks' and different versions of VCS action; continued power of older assumptions in European welfare (see lovely paper just out on NHS and 'heredity redux' in Soc Rev)
— AMR Interrupted (@AMRinterrupted) May 5, 2020
If AMR is – like COVID19 – a 'health system' issue let's not fall into the trap of thinking that systems keep everyone safe. I know @tscriado and @janinakehr you're both particularly engaged on questions of how to experiment and make space for new forms of care
— AMR Interrupted (@AMRinterrupted) May 5, 2020
Yes I agree. Really important to get away from some of the assumptions of political economy (even feminist responses) and open up beyond the human, as well as accepting the invitation to look beyond the brief post war settlement.
— AMR Interrupted (@AMRinterrupted) May 5, 2020
There is no welfare without harm, if you will. So whom to harm?, and who or what might help reflect on knowledge of harm… is what I’m thinking about here too
— stefan laser (@stefan_laser_) May 5, 2020
BUT they were previously spending so little compared with everyone else that it was a justice issue. And also in the end some of the most productive and creative participants in fuel poverty work were community energy companies who came with strong desire to work across the two
— AMR Interrupted (@AMRinterrupted) May 5, 2020
Curious also what @Emmargarnett might bring to this conversation: when pollution rather than a public health issue might be taken as the effect of public healthcare's operations?
— Tomás Criado (@tscriado elsewhere) (@tscriado) May 5, 2020
There is a rapid shift of sensing/monitoring devices from air pollution projects (public health & bioscience) to Covid-19. I think the response to both crises is kind of similar: caring for ‘vulnerable breathers’.
— Emma Garnett (@Emmargarnett) May 5, 2020
the same conclusion yesterday in the Berliner Zeitung: https://t.co/tUhNRlGj79
— Tomás Criado (@tscriado elsewhere) (@tscriado) May 8, 2020
Indeed! UV disinfection included…
— Cristina Moreno (@crinamoreno) May 8, 2020