Hey. Hey. Hey. How's it going? It's okay.

How's it going? It's okay.

Uh, let's just come out and say it. Today we're talking about the new deal.

Yeah. But I want to talk about the reason why. I mean I think you're a health expert,

but I think one of the things that we know for sure is that health is connected

to everything else in the world and also an indicator of any other things in the world.

Is that fair to say?

Yeah, it correlates almost directly with wealth. Really? Yeah, actually it's a directly, yeah, longevity, rates of chronic disease, who's being affected most by coronavirus now. It's not a new trend. It is

predictable when people have steady incomes and jobs and ruse over their heads and access to good food and safe

communities they live longer and what the term in public health is social

determinants of health some people say structural determinants of health in the

last 10 years that's really gotten a lot of attention. But for the decades before

that it was pretty much neglected as a concept. But if you look back at the

World Health Organization in the 1940s, they clearly laid that out in their founding documents and in their philosophy that you can't,

this is not a medical system we're building, we are building societies that create health.

Right, right. You know we talked about Ahmad Arbury a couple of weeks ago with Adam

Sirwhere and you know he was saying that coronavirus and a shooting like this may not seem connected, but they actually are.

Because of these structural issues, like we see people of color dying at much higher rates. We see

poorer people dying at much higher rates from coronavirus than wealthier people.

All of these things are part of the same structural. from coronavirus than wealthier people.

All of these things are part of the same structural system.

I mean, obviously what happened to George Floyd

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