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Amanda Hu

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Mar 20

The thing that caused the most hardship from COVID restrictions was THE DISMAL, SLAPDASH, ALWAYS WEEKS TOO LATE APPROACH by chicken shit govts that didn’t even align with how COVID actually spreads. The policies were implemented in the least effective and most punitive ways. 1/

So, yes, I do have sympathy for the people who were subject to constantly changing work demands (like teachers and restaurant workers) and parents who had no idea of school was going to be on or not or in-person or online. And people who wore masks but got sick anyways. 2/

But the work to reduce transmission of COVID didn’t hurt people; it was the cowardly half-assed and nonsensical way it was implemented. And masks were made less effective by policies that didn’t acknowledge airborne transmission. Even then, they made a difference! 3/

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Amanda Hu

@amandalhu

Mar 18

I’m thinking a lot about the dramatic shift that very often occurs for people in their perception of COVID and its impacts that seems to happen for many post-infection, but particularly with regards to journalists, medical professionals, officials and researchers. 1/

It is very challenging psychologically to hold some of the most concerning things about COVID in one’s mind while grappling with how this may impact oneself or one’s family. It makes a lot of sense that many people want to just put it out of their minds. 2/

But what about when this shift occurs and drastically changes the direction of one’s reporting? Or patient care? Or research? Or policy? To what extent are there mechanisms to account for someone’s personal reluctance to examine hard things when it is their job to do so? 3/

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Amanda Hu

@amandalhu

Mar 8

Here's my "wow, clean air matters even if we're not talking about the pandemic that shall not be named" resource thread:

vox.com/2020/1/8/21051…

thelancet.com/journals/lance…

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Amanda Hu

@amandalhu

Feb 6

Several eye-roll things there (post-pandemic framing, denial of the ongoing threat, lamenting the loss of in-person work culture) but the crux for me is: “COVID is over” people actually not having a good time either… except they don’t understand why fortune.com/2023/02/05/why…

It also reveals something else interesting: my connections to others have grown much deeper during the pandemic through meeting many very caring people. Could it be that this hyper-individualist culture we’re supposed to be all buying into is, in fact, not good for connection?

The framing of digital connection being inferior to in-person seems like a non-neurodivergent bias, but also, it really makes me wonder if the pining for “normalcy” is actually because many in-person interactions right now are based on denial of reality and people know, deep-down

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Amanda Hu

@amandalhu

Feb 4

Future Atlantic headlines:
A Car Was Driving Towards Me. Here’s Why I Just Stood In the Middle of the Road

Why Small House Fires Aren’t Worth Extinguishing

Band-Aids Don’t Spontaneously Heal Cuts So Why Do We Still Use Them?

I Learned Something New and I Couldn’t Handle It

I Got A Sunburn. Then I Threw Out All My Sunscreen.

Why I’m Just Sitting Here Patiently Waiting For Death To Take Me

Something Innocuous Made Me Anxious. Here’s Why That Makes Everyone Else Wrong.

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Amanda Hu

@amandalhu

Feb 3

Ok so, the article that lady wrote about how she couldn’t emotionally handle knowing what the co2 in her apartment was. I like data because I connect it to action. If people aren’t going to actually change anything, then yes I can see how the data might make someone anxious.

That’s why policy is important for most people to live their lives. The failure here is that the people who should have the data and be acting to implement policy are not, so a bunch of us nerds will seek it out and act as much as we can in lieu. But that’s not a good solution!

And I think having someone who is not an agile data nerd recount how having a co2 monitor didn’t help them just shows that we cannot personal responsibility our way out of systemic problems.

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