Being a health care expert for some long is weird watching "food desert" discourse over the decades grow and take on a life of its own. It was originally countering the "personal responsibility' argument poor people were making bad choices making themselves unhealthy. 1/
M. Nolan Gray 🥑Food desert discourse is fascinating as an extreme case of progressive policy breakdown: bad academic research, leading to bad policy papers, leading to (mostly) bad policy that wastes a lot of time/money, in response to a problem that either doesn't exist or is created by some other policy.