America has not measured up well.
Only by enshrining healthcare as a human right, elevating the authority of doctors and truth, and planning for our children\'s future, can everyone be properly free..
The federal government made matters worse through wilful ignorance, misinformation, and profiteering.
This passionate intervention outlines the lessons we must all learn, wherever we are, and finds glimmers of hope in dark times.
We have since watched understaffed and undersupplied hospitals buckling under waves of coronavirus patients.
And that was before the pandemic.
As he clung to life he found himself reflecting on the fragility of health, not recognized in America as a human right, but without which all rights and freedoms have no meaning.
So, if a government is making its people unhealthy it is also making them unfree.
On December 29, 2019, Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill.
After all, freedom is meaningless if we are too ill to think about our right to happiness or too weak to pursue it.
America is supposed to be about freedom, yet illness and fear make its citizens less free.
Tens of thousands are dead for no reason.
America has not measured up well
