Matthew Cortland, Esq. they

Lawyer, immunocompromised, writer, public health nerd | Then: SSI. Be A Hero. Now: data & policy, disability, healthcare. they 🏳️‍🌈

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Love to be misgendered in a book - it's my favorite goddamn thing

So apparently we're doing this again, on coming out day:

Matthew Cortland - they/them

[Matthew Cortland, Esq. they @mattbc]

Love to be misgendered in a book - it's my favorite goddamn thing

So apparently we're doing this again, on coming out day:

Matthew Cortland - they/them

[Matthew Cortland, Esq. they @mattbc]

You should get all the vaccines.

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Givefront got absorbed by the Peter Thiel axis of evil — anyone have any replacements they like?

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“It’s time to pick your story and snuggle.”

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Trying to convince the American electorate that ‘Medicaid work requirements’ are bad is like trying to convince a toddler that 'bedtime' is good.

It's going to fail until you change the frame.

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I'm sharing this because if you're ever in the position of having to decide whether to accept hospice care for a loved one with dementia (and I sincerely hope you never find yourself in this position), I hope you don't balk.

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@mkarolian the entire structure of pharma is arrayed against all of the studies i most want /sigh

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Xocova, post-exposure prophylaxis against COVID, is finally starting to have substantial availability in the U.S. Five days worth of pills you take right after exposure, cuts odds of getting COVID.

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We do have a name for making individuals responsible for their own water: a boil-water advisory. It is, by definition, an emergency measure. It exists because the system failed.

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Taylor Lorenz has spent the last days of August in a fight over because she harasses women of color. In June she attacked @maysoonzayid over an unmasked video. In 2023 she led a hate-mob at @the_tattooedjew for pulling his mask down in a photo.

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In 1908, Jersey City became the first American city to routinely chlorinate its drinking water. Within a decade, nearly every large city had followed. Clean water infrastructure accounted for ~1/2 of the entire decline in urban death rates in the early 1900s

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please remember:
but for whatever you've done, things would be worse.

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@DanaMarinBrown did you read the piece?

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I am not telling you to commit insurance fraud. I would never do that.

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