Y’all. I deep dove this week into analysis on the big three Covid things: lockdowns, masks, and the vaccine. We’ll start with the latter: I’m not categorically against vaccines, so what’s bothering me so much about this one? This question led me to Dr. Sebastian Rushworth’s blog. He’s a young Swedish doctor with an incredible…
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BREAKING: Shame & Blame Are NOT Eliminating the Virus | Covid Convo Week 21
Surprise! How’s that for a sensational headline? Did it bait you to click? There’s an obituary for a 79-year-old man who died of COVID-19 going viral. Here’s a link to the most balanced coverage I’ve seen of it, from BuzzFeed of all places. The man’s wife channels all her grief over losing her loved one…
Covid Convo Week 20: Infection
I initially wrote: “There won’t be a Covid convo today … I just can’t even. I don’t know who or what to believe. I don’t know why a pandemic has become political (I get why as in how I just don’t get why as in chess). So, let’s focus on how we’re staying covidtained…” But…
Covid Convo: Polarization | Week 19
Lots of good conversations have come up for me in person in the three short weeks I’ve been publishing my thoughts on this pandemic and the media. Some themes have emerged, including but not limited to: mask wearing and the whys behind it, politicizing pandemic responses, and trust—in media, data sources, or leadership. While I…
Covid Convo: The Wrong Conversation | Week 18
Sometimes, we’re having the wrong conversation because we don’t have all the information we need to have the right conversation. The media is failing us, and as a result we can’t make informed decisions as a society. When we’re getting most of our news from echo chambers, we don’t have the opportunity to understand multiple…
Covid Convo: Fear, Sensationalization, and Numbers | Week 17
I am frustrated. I am tired of being quiet. I am learning and by no means have all the answers, but the way this “pandemic” has been handled seems devoid of reason, so I am amending my weekly Covid Comms posts to include some conversation (with myself, unless y’all jump in the comments). I am…
Dear Lyssa,
… I’d encourage you to really acknowledge that it’s HARD, that these are the defining moments of a life, and you are allowed to—encouraged to—do what’s best for you no matter what, no matter how different it seems for other people. Leave jobs, take risks, move—no one understands these and you don’t mind. … So…
Therapy Thursday: A Warm Blanket
This is not from my therapist, nor is it truly about therapy. But it IS fresh out of my inbox, where I squealed a little when I received the news that Pendleton, a brand we know I’m obsessed with, created a Willamette BLANKET! ERMAGOD! TWO OF MY FAVORITE THINGS! IN ONE! Look at the meaning!…
2019 is the Year of Vulnerability
Yup. Gettin’ real real up in here. 2019 is the year of vulnerability: being vulnerable by asking for what I want and accepting the consequences being vulnerable by being who I am and not playing into stereotypes or bad habits being vulnerable by being direct and straightforward and not attaching value to others’ reactions to…
Contradiction
I’ve been using the Girl of Two Shoes metaphor for a very long time (here’s the og). I never stopped to think about if it’s still serving me. Now that I have, it’s time to retire it. Because y’know what? We’re past thinking women even need to be/should/are “high-heeled” (girly) or “tennis-shoed” (tomboy). Women as…