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1) What we need is a national COVID strategy that gives us a meaningful way of living while COVID poses such a threat.
We obviously need it for the things I often talk about like contact tracing, outbreak management, disease surveillance, vaccination.
1) What we need is a national COVID strategy that gives us a meaningful way of living while COVID poses such a threat.
We obviously need it for the things I often talk about like contact tracing, outbreak management, disease surveillance, vaccination.
2) We also need it for medical laboratories, microbiology and wider health service capacity including primary care and preventative services like screening.
But we also need something much broader and much more imaginative.
But we also need something much broader and much more imaginative.
3) I’m talking about wellbeing. Before COVID I worked more on the wellbeing side of Public Health, which includes mental health, suicide prevention, healthy cities etc.
Maintaining our collective wellbeing is as important as the other elements of dealing with this pandemic.
Maintaining our collective wellbeing is as important as the other elements of dealing with this pandemic.
4) It will help us live within guidelines and reduce the ennui that many feel now, only 6 months into this pandemic. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
5) We need broader society to be put in charge of and funded to making life better under COVID.
This includes the arts, sports, recreation, local authorities and public places they are responsible for and the wider nature and environment.
This includes the arts, sports, recreation, local authorities and public places they are responsible for and the wider nature and environment.
6) The work I do is technical and that is my contribution to this effort.
But the work I do does not inspire a sense of the divine the way beautiful art or performances or nature does. This is what will sustain us in the longer term.
But the work I do does not inspire a sense of the divine the way beautiful art or performances or nature does. This is what will sustain us in the longer term.
7) To paraphrase Aneurin Bevan, we need something
"in place of fear".
"in place of fear".
