This is such a great question and something I’ve thought about a lot in the last few years. My mom was on a jury for a sexual assault - a man in his 30s repeatedly raped an 11 year old girl for five years before anyone found out. My daughter happened to be around the same age (11) at the time of the trial and after…

There is beginning to be some training and support for journalists dealing with PTSD from the things they’ve seen. I know some very damaged souls in the profession. Great writers who have seen too much, for too long.

She stabbed two children under 6 multiple times. The little girl had defense wounds. I couldn’t give less of a shit about her depression. Millions of people deal with depression and don’t do things like this.

There really should be. Not to be tangential, but one of my biggest takeaways from The People vs. OJ Simpson was how mistreated the jurors were.

Thank you. It happened last June and it’s weird - of course it’s been devastating, and I still cry in my car on my way home from work. But I’ve also connected to people more than I have in years and I have this newfound ability to stop procrastinating and live life. And I’m doing charity work which is unbelievably…

I mean, I care about her mental illness in that I may feel somewhat sorry for her, but I don’t see how it should change the outcome when she’s murdered two young children. I still say throw her in a cell and lock her away until she dies. There’s no coming back from something like this.

Thanks for the long article; I can’t imagine how gruelling this must have been for jurors, court reporters and journalists, let alone the families involved/affected.

I honestly don’t care how crazy this woman is or was at the time. The way she murdered those children was horrific and she’s never seemed to give one fuck. Plenty of mentally ill people do something in the state of psychosis and feel something afterwards. Fuck her. Flush her down the toilet. Leave her in a dark hole…

I am so, so sorry for what happened to you. There are no words.

I am so sorry for your loss.

Thank you for this well-written and gut-wrenching article. Having recently gone through one of those “life-upending” tragedies - my father, a historically non-violent person, killed my mother and then himself, completely out of the blue - I find myself thinking about mental illness and where accountability…

Several Reasons. The treatment is quite expensive - my medication costs for $4900 for a 3 month supply. I am in Canada and it is provided free of charge. If this medication was not provided free of charge I would not be able to take it, I would continue to remain infectious and most likely have spread the disease to…

I think the reason HIV medications are covered is because there was a point in late 80's where we had a rapidly growing HIV epidemic and only AZT as treatment. One medication will only remain effective against the virus for a while. That was a very scary prospect.

Now you’re doing the whole “You should start thinking like me or else I’m gonna vote Republican from now on. You’re making Liberals look bad” shtick? Do you really think people fall for that? You can say you’re not conservative, but when basically every comment you make is a conservative-type opinion it’s pretty easy…

At the risk of sounding like a conservative

Yes, all those other countries should just quit their universal health care systems on principal. Who needs it? Also, who needs education? Let’s just close all the public schools and let people pay to send their kids to school.

1. No one is getting anything for free. It comes out of our taxes.

At the risk of answering like a conservative: Why pay more? The cost of giving people free needles & preventative drugs is TINY compared to the cost society pays after they’re infected, & have infected others, & continue committing crimes to get their drugs, & so on.

It’s a public health issue. HIV meds are VERY VERY expensive out of pocket and it is a communicable disease. It is in everyone’s best interest for people with HIV to have a non-detectable viral load, because it’s what stops transmission and slows the epidemic.

Because the protestant work ethic is a bunch of bullshit pushed by capitol to dupe labor into embracing their own exploitation and policing each other over a faulty moral principle.