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Highly Contagious: Pandemic and ‘Pan-Panic’

March 26, 2020 · Marieke Jochimsen ·

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?

Tagged With: COVID-19, democracy, mental health

Bejn Gwarniċ u Ieħor fi Truf il-Essri

February 5, 2020 · Kevin Saliba ·

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.

Tagged With: mental health, poetry, saħħa mentali

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

September 28, 2018 · Kurt Borg ·

“You have to compromise”, the adults in the room say. 

Tagged With: mental health, resistance, work, worker's rights

Fatal Politics: When People Die and Politicians are to Blame

February 11, 2018 · Kurt Borg ·

Politicians are to blame for the situation at Mount Carmel Hospital.

Tagged With: healthcare, inequality, mental health

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