Safe Living in an Epidemic

Helping people trying to live safely in COVID world? Listen to people, hear their questions. Can we find trusted evidence-based guidance? A daunting challenge! Collecting materials for a foundation. If not us, who?

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The bottom is falling out of the world. I’m scared. I feel hopeless and small. My apocalyptic and pathologically optimistic selves do battle daily. Paradoxically, with COVID-19, my life has changed only a small bit. No more hugs, no more travel. No more band rehearsals. I still see my family, do my work. I can pay my mortgage. I’m privileged. I want to contribute to this COVID-19 morass. So, what am I doing? How am I contributing?

Greetings, my friends, my listeners, and readers. A small but mighty band of volunteers are working together to better understand how people can manage the many uncertainties COVID-19 introduces into their lives. We call the project Safe Living in an Epidemic. We want to better understand the historical and often ignored need for everyday people for rapid access to trusted information they need to make choices in an emergency, in an epidemic. This band of volunteers includes the facilitators, yours truly and Laura Marcial, plus Natalka Slabyj, Cynthia LeRouge, June Levy, Kelly Reeves, Ellen Schultz, Sameemuddin Syed, Michael Waters, Michael Mittelman, Maria Michaels, Sharon Hibay, and Victoria Lyon​.