the Empathy List #100: When the Whole World Shut Down
Remembering my own pandemic lockdown on this 3rd anniversary via the words I wrote/published
Hello friends, Liz here.
Since this is officially NUMBER 100 of the empathy list, it makes sense for me to do a sort of “looking back” post… but let’s be honest, no one wants to read a “looking back” for this newsletter. ;-)
So my looking back will take a wider lens, back to the date three years ago when my home city of Denver, CO shut down due to a surprise virus back in 2020. (Remember lockdowns?)
A recent study got me thinking about this because the study’s authors claim that the pandemic didn’t tank mental health as much as predicted. That flummoxed me. Like, seriously? Did we all live through the same pandemic?
Actually, no. We didn’t.
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