Sierra Leone in particular has a government that, while deeply impoverished and chronically underfunded, is working to build a stronger healthcare system, and Partners in Health has deep relations with the government so that it’s not working parallel to the public healthcare system but deeply embedded within it. And of course we know that when parents survive childbirth, kids are more likely to be educated, and less likely to be malnourished. Clean water and electricity at community health centers make for safer conditions in which to give birth, but also safer conditions in which to be treated for other healthcare issues. And the great thing about fighting maternal mortality is that it has all kinds of virtuous side effects-the blood bank at Koidu Government Hospital will serve those who are dying from blood loss after child birth, but it will also serve the entire community. There is nothing inevitable about this injustice! It was caused by human-built systems and can be addressed by human-built systems. (Indeed, it is now closer to 1 in 25-which is still hundreds of times higher than it needs to be.) There is nothing inevitable about the statistic. When we began this project in 2019, one in seventeen Sierra Leonean women died in childbirth. It is the direct result of human-built systems that have impoverished the Sierra Leonean government and people for centuries. This is not the result of some natural or inevitable process. Maternal mortality is another glaring expression of this injustice: 700 people in Sierra Leone will die giving birth for every one who dies in Germany. This is why most people in rich countries don’t even know that TB is the second-leading cause of infectious disease death on Earth-behind only Covid. Whether you get sick and die of tuberculosis is determined by whether you are impoverished, whether you live in a community with a fragile healthcare system, and whether you can access healthcare. Whether you get tuberculosis is not REALLY determined by whether you are exposed to the bacterium that “causes” TB. Like, the 1.5 MILLION people who will die this year of tuberculosis will not REALLY die of infection by the bacterium m. There is injustice in every direction! It is easy to find yourself frozen in the face of the a dizzying array of injustices.īut for me, there is no expression of structural injustice as profound as mortality caused by poverty. Kim Jung Un, circa first day of Destroy Dick December(2017 colorized) /9S7sxUKWVHĭestroy Dick December? did you mean is a lot of injustice in the world. Will you fight? Or will you perish like a dog?ĭestroy Dick December spread and inspired many masturbation-related jokes and memes throughout, you guessed it, December 2017. During the month, the man is supposed to masturbate once on December 1st, twice on December 2nd, and all the way up to 31 times on New Year’s Eve. Over the following days, the “rules” of Destroy Dick December were established in a text message that was shared on Reddit, Instagram, and other social media sites. The next day, Instagram user rapper2k directly connected the two joking month observances. As a response, the alliteration-driven Destroy Dick December dares any No Nut November survivor to masturbate so much in December that their penises are, well, destroyed.ĭestroy Dick December emerged in the beginning of November 2017, as shown in the tweet below. Destroy Dick December is a spinoff of No Nut November, a monthlong joke challenge where men are supposed to abstain from nutting, or ejaculating, either from masturbation or intercourse, throughout November.
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