The Watchmen Have Left: How the Collapse of Disease Tracking Leaves You Uncounted and Unwarned

Let me start with a question, and I want you to be honest with yourself, because nobody hears your answer but you. When you buy food for your family, you carry a quiet assumption in the back of your mind, do you not? You assume that somewhere, out of sight, there are people watching. People counting the cases when food makes folks sick. People connecting the dots when a bad batch of something spreads across the country. People sounding the alarm and pulling the poison off the shelves before it reaches your kitchen. You assume the watchmen are on the wall.

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