
Why we need to think of health as an ‘us,’ not just a ‘me’
The Decibel
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Can Education Affect Your Health?
The COVID-19 pandemic has exemplified how this works. No matter how many personal precautions you might take, if you're surrounded by people who are infected and you're breathing in air that has virus in it, your personal protections can only go so far. This sort of principle applies to all sorts of other things as well, like extreme heat waves from climate change or environmental carcinogens. All those sort of things are, you can't sort of self-care your way out of.
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