Trauma mental health/ standard mental health offerings are NOT going to cut it with the types of distress we are seeing. @DHSCgovuk and @NHSEngland have been slow to recognise the needs of staff so I worry that they won’t get the offer right to the public either
They also have form for tailoring the trauma response to issues that fit with the “approved agenda” so you won’t see awareness of issues like vaccine injury or the recognition of harms of lock down
The pandemic has huge parallels with enduring environmental disasters that involved fear and long lasting contamination. It leads to obsessive behaviour and unliveable-with levels of anxiety
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24 Dec
A short 🧵on Data and Disasters: 1. This pandemic has been all about data and data dashboards and numbers and exponentials. What do you do with that if you are a disaster recoverer? Well firstly you watch your colleagues providing it,they are often the source of the numbers 1/10
2. This can be exhausting and something responders can resent. Most incident inquiries have central government's incessant need for numbers as a key distraction in the response. Hovewer this time its mainly useful and this has been one of our most finely calibrated disasters ever
3. They provide them so they are rarely a surprise. Instead responders/ recoverers look at numbers for what they mean tomorrow - impact assessments of what will be needed and also whether they are taking us anywhere near overwhelm in which case we get ready to ask for more
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23 Nov
You were screaming for an extended lockdown and for the schools to stay shut
The defendant “relished his distress during lockdown”dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
Meanwhile over in the mortuaries we were reminding the government planners that we would need provision for the children that were at risk of this exact fate…
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21 Nov
2021 Round Up for the #TheRecoveryShelf - what’s been your must have and what’s on your book wish list? Light hearted, Self Help, Core text. Maybe even book of the year? @TheEPS1
It’s fair to say it’s been a bumper year for incredible disaster management writing @gillkernick @SamLMontano @amandacomms
Best reviewer as always @mtthwhgn
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13 Jun
There is always such an air of sneering smugness about the idea of people who fall for fake news. Things that I have seen labelled as fake news in my career: 1. That the police opened the gate 2. That first aid was deliberately held back due to fears of the crowd..3. The 9/11..
…dust contained carcinogens 4.Journalists were hacking the phones of bereaved 5. That there was collusion between police forces and major news outlets 6. That there were risks to children of the swine flu vaccine 7. That there was a serial killer operating in Greater Manchester
8. That Jimmy Saville was a paedophile 9. That Stuart Hall was a paedophile 10. That there might not be WMD 11. That the hands of the dead were removed in Marchioness disaster 12. That there were risks to women of vaginal mesh 13… and of J and J talcum powder…
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12 Jun
Back in supermarket again (its BBQ weather) a lovely older couple of married women and one was saying "shall we try a new type of squash" and other said "after all we have been through this year, I think we should give it a go" and that my friends, is disaster survivance
“Survivance is more than survival. Survivance means redefining ourselves. It means raising our political and social consciousness. It means holding on to ancient principles while eagerly embracing change. It means doing what is necessary to keep our cultures alive”.
They went with a Raspberry and Cherry Mix and also some Robinsons lemon...
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11 Jun
If you are an emergency planner, you knew there was never really a 21 June. It was always the one bit of the road map that didn't ring true. Once NPIs are put into a situation, they linger. When something is sold as a solution, people cling to them long after they are needed.
In my work I talk about "placebo sandbags" - distributed by responders in floods even when we know they won't work. But it makes people feel better.
Some restrictions will stay and I cannot see the govt relinquishing an ability to impose local measures any time soon. But know this - YOU did nothing wrong and none of this is a surprise to those of us who explored what an 'out' corona would mean. What we can do now is this...
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