Why health, why here, and why now | The Healthiest Goldfish

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I would like to talk to you about health.

This is, of course, practically all we have been doing for the past year, as the Covid-19 pandemic has raged. However, I would argue we are at a unique point in our history, a time for a new focus on our conversation about health.

This week, the US saw both the inauguration of a new president and its Covid-19 death toll surpass 400,000. With the pandemic looming so large, it is possible to forget that other issues even exist outside of Covid-19. But it is precisely because this moment is so acute that I think it is important to step back, and focus on some of these very issues that will be with us long after Covid-19 has passed by.

My overall approach is told perhaps most efficiently by way of a story, one you may have heard before, if you have read my work or attended one of my public talks.

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