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big pond, little fish
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“I don’t even want to come in out of the rain.”
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Belatedly: hello. I'm a public health infectious disease epidemiologist with a background in medical ethics. I mostly try not to play one on the internet, but here we are. Also hiking with dogs, telling stories with TTRPGs, and making sense of life through survival tales and other people's poetry.
TRUTH. I do find value in the term as a reminder to stay a little uncomfortable and hyperconscious of the weight of this work. But it’s such an easy word to replace in most (all?) contexts! There are so many other options that are just as accurate and more easily understood! We should use ‘em!
And also it is *not a replacement* for a functional CDC. Absolutely we should have strong interjurisdictional relationships that are not contingent on CDC. And also yeah: they are necessary, not sufficient. (Even aside from the need to stare in “no state funding.” 🙃🫠🙃)
…find some solidarity is one of the things I am proudest of this year. It was *important.* That group is important, and it was an honor and a privilege to be able to do something to meet the moment, even if that something was just setting up a call series and facilitating through it.
Yes. Yes. I lead one such. Had agreed last October to step into that role effective January and welp. My first act as state chair was replacing the CDC call invite with my own during the comms pause. holding the space for those folks to talk and decompress and…
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How it started / how it’s going.
I was going to say WHY DID THEY NOT LET YOU CHEW THEM
What a fun thing to have to explain at a library!
“And I feel terrible about the whole argument between / free will and destiny. All that I want is everything I want. / Music and rain and slight variations between the two.”

Clay Matthews, “Poem in Which I Sort of Break Down”
10 Candles as a podcast? Be still my heart!
This knocks me over every single time I touch Audacity. (Sorry to provide you with so many examples from which to learn!)
I will never be able to unknow this and I’m delighted.
I wish this did not feel so likely and yet here we are.
Best thing since sticky notes, tbh.
Looking back, Notepad was all we needed.
A very happy Stanislav Petrov saves the world day to us all.
Jane Hirschfield, “Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight”
“There is more and more I tell no one, / strangers nor loves. / This slips into the heart / without hurry, as if it had never been. / And yet, among the trees, something has changed. / Something looks back from the trees, / and knows me for who I am.”
Remember quokkas? I just stumbled on this again and man, quokkas are great.
“I want someone / to have a crush on me / for a change”

R. Eirik Ott, “Crushworthy”

(The puppy is steadfast in her quest to convince Titus that she is Very Grown Up and Extremely Cool. Gettin’ there!)

#apocalypsedogs #dogwalking #morningwalk #touchgrass #dogs #poetry #theyregooddogsbrent
When you put it like that 🤔🤔🤔