March 17, 2020: Monica Gandhi sat staring at an email she’d just received from S.F.'s health officer.
It was the first time — but hardly the last — that she found herself questioning the city's conservative approach to the pandemic. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…
It was the first time — but hardly the last — that she found herself questioning the city's conservative approach to the pandemic. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…
She’d spend the next year and a half living in an uncomfortable gray space, advocating for a harm-reduction approach to the pandemic that sometimes ran counter to a far more cautious approach held by many in San Francisco and other liberal enclaves. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…
As one of S.F.’s loudest voices in favor of harm reduction, she’s received fierce backlash, and sometimes death threats, particularly on Twitter.
“I’m not saying anything crazy,” she says. "I’m really not.” sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…
“I’m not saying anything crazy,” she says. "I’m really not.” sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…
When she began to speak out about opening schools, everything seemed to blow up.
She grounded her positions in data, yet the response could be intense — she’s been framed as attention-seeking and anti-science. She still has trouble understanding why. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…
She grounded her positions in data, yet the response could be intense — she’s been framed as attention-seeking and anti-science. She still has trouble understanding why. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…
“I was never controversial. I went to Harvard Medical School, went to UCSF, just did everything right by all academic credentials, and I just thought why would there be any controversy about this approach?" sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…
Gandhi has spent a lot of time thinking about why her messaging throughout the pandemic has received so much resistance — how a city that pioneered harm reduction during one pandemic could forget about it the next. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…
“There are some people I disagree with where I think they’re not paying attention to the science, they’re not reading it carefully,” @Bob_Wachter says. “Monica is not like that at all. ... I often find myself shifting a little bit after listening to her.”
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“It weighs on me a lot — I’ve been feeling really uncomfortable in my own skin, in this city, for the last year and a half,” Gandhi says. “It’s really uncomfortable. I don’t know. Sometimes I’ve thought about leaving” San Francisco.
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