Oh, I'm fine. Just having a near daily meltdown over the lack of integration between public health and emergency management research.
Sry to my colleagues who specialize in bridging the two. Whew. Y'all have your work cut out for you!
Truly a constant back and forth of "well the emergency management literature leads me to believe we should do X but the public health literature apparently says Y."

All the other disciplines showing up with their input:
Anyway... this is why @amsavitt and I argued we need to correctly categorize the pandemic so we don't inappropriately generalize findings that mislead practice and policy.

We did this in an EM context but it seems like others need to do the same...

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My cynical optimistic take is that this doesn't matter anyway since no one is listening to the scientists.

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11 Nov
Hello everyone!

Hitting play in just a few minutes!

Tweet along with #DATM

I’m an assistant professor in the emergency management program at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. A bunch of my Intro to Emergency Management students will be joining us tonight as well!
"Things aren't as bad as they could be" is very close to my favorite saying "things can always get worse"! #DATM
Same energy. #DATM
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10 Nov
People keep sending me this and omg, no, I have no idea why Mainers are eating side salads.

My family ate pizza for Thanksgiving last year so... 🤷‍♀️
Honestly, this seems like the best explanation other than that this map is just made up.

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9 Nov
I've gotten a lot of questions this weekend about what I mean by “comprehensive emergency management reform” and also what Biden could immediately do for emergency management.

So, let me do a thread where I vaguely answer.
First, I use the term “comprehensive emergency management reform” to indicate that we need massive changes to how we approach mitigating, preparing, responding, & recovering from all types of disaster (climate-related or not). This means different things to different people.
My guiding light is that we need EM to be effective, efficient, & just. So any change that would move us towards that goal is something I would include here. I emphasize comprehensive bc we have a tendency to do piecemeal adjustments that don’t fully solve our problems.
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9 Sep
It is, as always, important to point out that according to this the president made response decisions based on his belief a disaster myth — that the public panics in times of disaster — which disaster scholars have studied for over 50 years. ImageImage
Whether it’s officials delaying calls for wildfire evacuations or not being truthful w/the public about the scope & severity of an emerging pandemic lives are put at risk — and lost — when public officials make decisions based on a false belief about human behaviors in disasters.
It is horrifying and, frankly, lazy.

We know how to respond to these events. We have a century of damn research on this. We have practitioners with decades of experience. Yet, none of that matters when the person in charge won’t listen.
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26 Aug
This is not an image you ever want to see.

I’ve studied flooding in TX & LA for almost a decade & Port Arthur is one of the places I lose sleep over the most.

Port Arthur often gets overlooked because they aren't Houston but they have been through A LOT so, A THREAD:
Port Arthur sits at the intersection of all kinds of vulnerability. They sit right up against Sabine Lake, next to the Gulf. The flood infrastructure system desperately needs to be upgraded. Yes, climate change is a factor.
As of 2017 nearly 1/3 of residents lived in poverty & they have been hit hard by the economic impacts of the failed pandemic response. Decades of policies- especially related to recovery- have compounded racial inequality throughout Port Arthur.
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