COVID-19 is not the only threat to our community and country and world. Endless war is another. Endless hunger is another. Endless thirst is another. Endless racism is another. Endless ignorance is another. And of course, climate change is definitely another. Scientific intelligence and loving justice should cause responses to all threats with equal determination, equal urgency, equal concern as shown toward the new virus. It shouldn’t take a virus to wake us up. We should not be asleep in the first place.
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Letter: Other crises persist
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