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Blog postLet’s not shoot ourselves in the foot at the very beginning. Love is a tall order; let’s ratchet it down a notch and set our expectations at “empathy.”Will empathy work to combat the pandemic? After all, the very definition of empathy is emotional understanding. Through empathy, perhaps we can understand the behavior of others, and to tailor the public health response to their experience?Unfortunately, emotional understanding doesn’t necessarily motivate concrete reactions on that basis
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Blog postBEHIND THE MASK, September 9: You Are Not Stupid, This is Not Normal
Ed Yong is a first class science writer; his pieces for the Atlantic on the virology and epidemiology of covid have become must-reads. But the acuteness of his observations regarding human behavior in the context of institutions, systems, and societies leaves something to be desired.
His recent Atlantic essay purports to catalog various sorts of cognitive biases and misbehaviors perpetrated by individua -
Blog postPlaying Risk
It’s an earnest game, judging what risks are serious, which trivial, and how to balance them through daily life. Over the past decade or two I have changed how I understand risk (and how I discuss it with my patients). Covid makes a correct approach to risk all the more fraught. Correct, however, is not to be determined by a set of axes, but a breadth of view. Follow along.
For a long time I was absorbed by the topic of risk communication. What is your risk of dev -
Blog postReopening is on everyone’s minds, and the outlines of the conflict are at this point clear to many: not just safety for kids, parents, teachers, and staff, but also for surrounding communities. Decisions may reinforce inequity.
Specific statistical models are available for estimating the risk that a gathering of N people includes at least one person with covid; other models estimate the influence of airflow and other aspects of building design.
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Blog postWhat is the best way to get other people to do what we want? So often during the pandemic this question is directed at other people who are not engaging in the behaviors we find praiseworthy–either right now, or what we want them to do in the future.
But telling others what to do is not as simple as it seems. Not only do directive statements (“do this”) fail often to yield the result we wish, whether in daily life or in healthcare, but the behavior we find praiseworthy is not actuall -
Blog postKinah for Tisha B’av 5780/2020 הָעִיר יָשְׁבָה בָּדָד הֵעֵם יוֹשֵׁב בַּבִּדּוּד הוֹן שׁוֹדֵד וָלֹא שֶׁדָּוִד עֲלֵה נְגִיף בְּחַלּוֹן וּמַדָּד רִחוּק חֶבְרָתִי שֶׁל כֹּל אֶחָד [The city dwells alone The people stay-at-home Fortunes thieve, are not stolen The virus rises at the windows, measures Everyone’s distance] Refrain: kol echad balailah בָּכָה תִּבְכֶּה בַּלַּיְלָה סִרֶנוֹת מְמַלְּאוֹת אֶת הַלַּיִל עִם מַסָּעוֹת מְטופָּלִים וְחוֹזְרִים חֲלִילָה בֵּי
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Blog postThis week, we consider the question — how does one think of one’s own community in time of traumatic rupture, and does that provide opportunity for creative change? One article considers this explicitly, even if it addresses Covid only glancingly. It’s about the various holders of political power in Portland, Oregon, and how the interaction of those power centers has changed — with Covid, and with protests. (https://hardcrackers.com/portland-report/) The observation that hit me with most
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Blog post1. Solidarity. Solidarity? Consider this quote: “Most people’s economic situations would determine whether they stayed home from work. voluntarily. If their workplace was open and they needed the money to pay their bills, people would drag themselves to work. … The only sure ways to prevent this state of affairs would be to force workplaces to close or to pay workers to stay home.” This is taken from Rosemarie Tong’s 2008 memoir about serving on an influenza task force convened by
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Blog postA poem of mine is up at the site Faces of the Frontline:
https://www.facesofthefrontline.org/post/first-responders
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Making Sense of Medicine: Bridging the Gap between Doctor Guidelines and Patient Preferences
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