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German district Karlsruhe requires “emergency permission” by administrators to allow students and staff to wear masks for Covid protective purposes.

Are they also removing eyeglasses, mobility aids, and hearing aids?

#InsaneClownPosse

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It took only seven months between German Health Minister Lauterbach erroneously claiming Germany had “successfully overcome the pandemic” and districts making the default policy a mask BAN.

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Germany: Still has a spring in its goose step.

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Nov 12
What if people who aren’t cautious about Covid are just…wrong?

DSM 6, here comes a new diagnosis: Oppositional reality disorder.

You might be affected if four or more of the following apply and cause impairments in multiple settings.

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Oppositional reality disorder

(1) A pervasive pattern of ignoring objective reality

(2) Engaging in behaviours known to harm self and others

(3) Lashing out at shared evidence

(4) Cognitive distortions, including extreme compartmentalization, to avoid reality

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Oppositional reality disorder

(5) Impaired ability to weigh benefits and costs of behaviours

(6) Emotional lability when confronted with data

(7) Exaggerated interest in short-term pleasures

(8) A lapsed sense of position in time or space, or their continuity

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Jul 22
I had a disturbing conversation this evening with a friend of 20 years.

This is someone hyper rational who has a terminal degree in a quant field.

Someone whose progressive credentials would usually put me to shame any day of the week.

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@awsparling And there is some lingering resentment about being given less commingled with a subtle shame about that avoidance.
@awsparling I heard reactance in the answers. Lots of quiet messaging about not wanting to deprive their child of experiences, but the examples were mostly parent centred.

The unspoken part that I sensed was the tension of knowing about risk and fearing a return to childhood patterns.
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May 25
There is a lot of misinformation circulating about the role of “shame” in public health messaging.

What works in eliciting behaviour change?

Educating others about downstream impacts to others and introducing moral dimension to compliance.

Some literature follows. 🧵

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Bonding with others and taking their perspective (inter subjective empathy) during stressful events leads to increased behavioural compliance.

The healthy (and effective) cousin of shame is prosocial cuing before a target behaviour.

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This is why campaigns related to behaviour causing bystander harm (eg speeding, drunk driving, condom use) frame messaging around preventing suffering to others.

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Mar 9
Governments respond to new challenges reactively.

Expect this pattern. 🧵

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1. Resource depletion (labour)

2. Mobilize excluded resources (child labour)

3. Structural productivity depletion

4. Critical mass of disabled *workers* (~20%)

5. Heroic investments in therapeutics

6. Rallying communication about risk

7. Prevention finally adopted

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What is the likely timescale for these steps?

Historically, upwards of a decade from acknowledgement of a problem (step 4).

As we enter our fourth year of Covid, Western governments are between steps 1 and 2.

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Dec 13, 2022
I thought I’d share a little personal year-end practice from our family. Hopefully it can bring you happiness and deep connections, too!

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Therapy related to attachment often includes an activity that involves imagining an ideal parent.

I believe this tool isn’t just reparative for past attachment injury, but can also be a powerful avenue to become the best parents we can be for our own children, now.

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Dr. Brown at Harvard literally wrote the book on attachment injury in adults. (The flip side of secure attachment.)

In the clip below, he guides the viewer through a brief visualization of the ideal parent.



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Dec 1, 2022
Happy story: we can change minds on masking. 🧵

Scenario: Getting a flu shot at the local pharmacy. Pharmacist and our group are masked.

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Young dad walks in, unmasked. I overhear that he has a sick toddler at home and is trying to select an analgesic with the pharmacist.

I tell him I hope his little one feels better soon.

Dad tells me he has 3 kids - all sick continuously for over a month. He was just sick.

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I explain that Covid is making life so hard for families, and that immune deficits can persist in adults for upwards of 8 months, making them susceptible to flu, RSV, colds, and Covid reinfection.

Him: “That explains SO much.”

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