The Awesome Coffee Club

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breechingbaby asked:

Mister Green, could you give me three segues that will help me spread the word about Tuberculosis at a dinner party?

Yes.

I mean god, yes, if there’s anything I can do in this world, it’s transition a dinner party conversation to tuberculosis.

  1. Someone brings up the health of U.S. Presidents or Presidential candidates. Things start to get heated. It is uncomfortable. You say, “But of course pre-1958, the health of U.S. Presidents was always more fragile than today regardless of their age. When Franklin Pierce was elected President in 1852, his VP was in Cuba dying of tuberculosis; his secretary of state had just lost a son to tuberculosis; his wife was disabled by tuberculosis; and that he himself was sick with tuberculosis?”
  2. “Speaking of the Eras tour, did you know that the Era of Consumption never ended because tuberculosis is the leading cause of infectious disease death, killing 1.6 million people each year even though it is curable?”
  3. “I notice you haven’t taken off your cowboy hat even after sitting down to dinner, which communicates to me that you would like to participate in cowboy-hat-related conversation. Did you know that the Stetson hat only exists because John B. Stetson traveled West in search of a cure for his consumption?”

vegaslivewithninon asked:

Who are you ...

It’s complicated, vegaslivewithninon.

I am a coffee company. Specifically, I am the world’s best coffee company. We source incredible coffee beans, roast them perfectly, and send them to your house.

Best of all, the awesome coffee club donates 100% of its profit to charity–through this model, combined with our socks and our soap, we’ve been able to donate over $5,000,000 to fight child and maternal mortality.

But one thing corporations go to great lengths to hide is that they are actually made out of people. Like, when Wendy’s tweets, that is not actually a sentient version of the restaurant Wendy’s. It is actually a person or group of people who is being paid by Wendy’s.

And so in addition to being the awesome coffee club, I am also a human being, just like Wendy’s is made out of human beings. Specifically, I am a novelist and essayist and youtuber and tumblr veteran named John Green.

So sometimes I am John Green and sometimes I am a coffee company. I contain multitudes. I guess it’s possible that you feel a lot of stability in who you are, vegaslivewithninon, but I do not. I feel a distinct lack of stability.

coffee company that is also a person named john green

apathbetweenthestars asked:

I just wanted to let you know that The Awesome Coffee Club's Octavia blend has ruined me for other coffee brands. I recently visited my mom and she regularly buys [insert Big Name Brand of coffee here]. While drinking it, I couldn't help but think how it wasn't as smooth, as rich, as delectable!

I started drinking Octavia more than a year ago, and now I don't think I could regularly drink anything else.

One of the reason that we don’t do a lot of advertising is that our customers are better advertisers than we are.

Join the 10,000 people who drink the world’s best coffee.

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alenevedmidnat-deactivated20230 asked:

Hi, I was diagnosed with OCD at the start of this year but my therapist was very sadly awful at his job.

I told him that I looked up to everything you've managed to do while having OCD, and he told me that I couldn't achieve the same because you're famous and so have perks I can't have and I disagree. I still look up to you. Turtles all the way down gave me words to understand things I was going through years before my diagnosis and your videos helped me when I was at my loneliest.

I hope you're having a nice day if you see this

Hey. I’m sorry you have OCD. It sucks–or at least it sucks for me!

  1. Maybe your therapist was trying to take the pressure off you–to say that doing X or Y in life is not essential to living a good life. (On this front, I agree–most of the people I know who have really good lives and contribute within their families and communities are not famous or rich.)
  2. But if they were trying to say that you can’t pursue dreams and ambitions while living with mental illness, then this therapist is clearly in the wrong field. Lots of people, including me, live with serious mental illness while also having a fulfilling life.
  3. Also, the whole idea of therapy is to develop tools and frames that allow you to live better while also understanding that there may be times when you need to accommodate or make space for your illness.
  4. Just to be clear, I’ve had OCD when I was not famous, and I’ve had it when I was famous, and I found it to be quite unpleasant both ways.
  5. Thank you for your kind words about turtles all the way down. That’s precisely what I hoped the book could do and be for its readers.
ocd turtles all the way down

nighttime-nightingale asked:

Me and my friends have a monthly game night, where we play a game or competition, and the loser has to make a donation to a charity of the winners choosing. Next month is gonna be racing Go-Karts, and I've got this in the bag. Are there any TB related charities you would recommend I send my friends to?

YES. The folks leading the charge at expanding treatment access are:

The Stop TB Partnership

MSF

Partners in Health

The Treatment Action Group (which was founded by ACT UP but has now expanded to seek better treatment for people living with TB as well as HIV).

tuberculosis is the world's deadliest infectious disease even though it's curable which is a proper indictment of not just our healthcare delivery systems but also our information delivery systems since TB has long been a neglected illness tb has killed around 150 million people since it became curable in 1958
How a Drug Maker Profited by Slow-Walking a Promising H.I.V. Therapy
Gilead delayed a new version of a drug, allowing it to extend the patent life of a blockbuster line of medications, internal documents show.
nytimes.com

Last week, Johnson & Johnson agreed not to enforce their secondary patents on bedaquiline in most countries after a long public pressure campaign by TB activists around the world.

(A special shoutout to Nandita Venkatesan and Phumeza Tisilethe, the two women who led the charge to prevent the patent evergreening in India, which is the only reason generic bedaquiline is in production.)

But the problem of patent evergreening is everywhere–as this NYT story reports, Gilead intentionally denied people access to a drug they knew to be less toxic than alternatives because it wanted to extend its monopoly on HIV drugs for as long as possible.

Similarly, Johnson & Johnson has been intentionally denying people access to affordable bedaquiline, even though they knew they could make a profit even if they decreased the price by 65%.

What’s especially galling is that both these companies benefit tremendously from public investment (bedaquiline research was funded primarily by the public), and so we end up paying for it twice–once to develop it, and once to have it available to the sick.

This is infuriating, and it is resulting in the real impoverishment and death of so many people. How does it end? With better governance and regulation. In this respect, India can be a model for us–their courts have done a much better job than U.S. ones of determining what really deserves to be patented and for how long. I’m hopeful that we can learn from the, but disgusted by this ongoing horror.

coffee company pharmaceutical companies it's almost as if we healthcare shouldn't be a market-driven enterprise like what if the point of healthcare is not to enrich the already rich but rather to improve the health of a community with preferential access for the most marginalized and impoverished