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I think this is a pretty unfair reading of the situation. The grievance came directly from the people working for the company. You can certainly dig in to the situation and have an opinion about whether those grievances are valid, but I don’t see how that can be seen as a case of people “biasing towards their own set of experiences and points of view.” Who else’s point of view should they be considering?

Also we definitely live in a global, interconnected world but it feels like a hell of a stretch to invoke BLM here. African workers sharing their feelings about their place of work are just “riding the wave” because they happen to black?

Sorry to hear your family member is struggling with getting medications. Are you based in the US? Purely anecdotal, but I work in an academic medical center and there have been no issues with steroid shortages. If your family member is having trouble to the point of not getting meds, if they live even remotely close to one, they (almost?) all have pharmacies that can fill scripts and I believe hydrocortisone can be prescribed for 90+ days at a time.

Less anecdotally, I’ve seen several COVID based guidelines recommending mail-order scripts — they are less geographically constrained, pretty much always on time and can be filled for similar timeframes, no standing in line etc.

Hope things get easier for your loved one!

Northeast for the most part, heard it as far south as NC

I’m a mud-phud, use it myself and have heard it used all over!

This is an interesting article but I feel like there’s a big disconnect between the description of Axial’s focus and the companies used as case studies. They all seem to rely on advantages companies developed well after being “early stage” startups, and it’s not clear how you could ascertain those advantages before the companies managed to pull off their various bets. I would imagine most people would agree Merk & Regeneron are well beyond the point where the idea of value investing is tough to do. Perhaps I just am working with a different definition of early stage.

This point of view is out of line with my experiences surrounding discussions of systemic racism. My experience has included detailed demands with qualitative and quantitative targets made at my place of work, codified changes in the structure of the police department in the city I live in, and new state laws regarding use-of-force passed in the last few weeks alone. I think there’s lots of discussion going on around what will enact effective change (and what won’t), which is fair, but I feel your painting with a very broad brush to say people are crusading and assuming the problem to be intractable. Hard for me to imagine all this effort coming from people who think there’s nothing to be gained.

I’m not sure I fully appreciate the point your making with breaking down the idea “America is inherently racist.” Outside of Twitter I’ve encountered exactly zero conversations that start and immediately end with such a statement. Of course things like qualified immunity and equitable education come into play - these topics have been heavily discussed in the public sphere for decades! To link them in this case to speak to a community’s broader experience seems both reasonable and necessary.

For a light hearted analogy — say I get a burrito from a taqueria on Monday and shit my pants and then go back Tuesday for tacos and shit myself again. When I’m retelling that story on Wednesday over sushi, you’d better believe I’m using the name of the restaurant.