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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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A huge portion of that difference in wealth you can trace back to the fact that their families were not able to get into the housing market. So there’s this myth out there like, “Oh, homeless folks are just disconnected from their friends or family, and if only we connected them by Facebook, all would be good.”

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

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It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. We could wear masks against Covid, but we couldn’t vaccinate against racism. Asian hate is, again, another umbrella term for racism and discrimination. Eric 18:34 And what did you find?

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

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We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . Their vaccines aren’t as effective.