By Selwyn Duke
What do you think about a health commissioner who says that “even brief contact with the police or indirect exposure is associated with lasting harm to people’s physical and mental health”?
How about a city epidemiologist who announces, “We as a public health department have really been trying to frame criminal justice system involvement as an exposure”?
These statements — by New York City health commissioner Oxiris Barbot and her epidemiologist, Kimberly Zweig — could remind you of the SDS radical who once wrote, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.”
Except the corollary apparent here is: The job is never the job. The job is always the revolution.
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