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Highly Contagious: Pandemic and ‘Pan-Panic’

March 26, 2020 by The IotL Magazine Leave a Comment

Why do COVID-19 updates skew so much towards death and not recovery? We need to be particularly cautious in letting numbers of death records beat us into fear. Or do we assume that people will not act responsibly unless they are shocked into a panic?

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Filed Under: Environment, Long Read, More Isles of the Left, Society & Politics Tagged With: COVID-19, democracy, mental health

Bejn Gwarniċ u Ieħor fi Truf il-Essri

February 5, 2020 by The IotL Magazine Leave a Comment

Fil-versi ta’ Grech Ganado, b’mod partikulari f’din il-ġabra, il-qarrejja impenjati faċilment jistgħu jilmħu l-ilħna mkissra ta’ kittieba bipolari bħal Sylvia Plath, Annie Sexton, Dorothy Parker u Virginia Woolf.

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Filed Under: Panem et Circenses Tagged With: mental health, poetry, saħħa mentali

Being ‘Unreasonable’ in Unreasonable Times: The Mount Carmel Fracas

September 28, 2018 by Kurt Borg Leave a Comment

“You have to compromise”, the adults in the room say.  [Read more…] about Being ‘Unreasonable’ in Unreasonable Times: The Mount Carmel Fracas

Filed Under: More Isles of the Left, Society & Politics Tagged With: mental health, resistance, work, worker's rights

Fatal Politics: When People Die and Politicians are to Blame

February 11, 2018 by Kurt Borg Leave a Comment

Politicians are to blame for the situation at Mount Carmel Hospital. [Read more…] about Fatal Politics: When People Die and Politicians are to Blame

Filed Under: More Isles of the Left, Society & Politics Tagged With: healthcare, inequality, mental health

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