The "kindness pandemic"

The threat, uncertainty, and anxiety related to the pandemic lead us to make short-sighted decisions:

• we crave more information so we are spending a lot of time looking for news updates relating to the virus and its spread. But too much negative news causes stress and distraction....

Humans are constantly learning and teaching each other the new things that we learn. But we have to keep in mind our track record. At one time we thought the earth was flat. At one time we didn't realize germs were spread through contact and that we should wash our hands. If you stay up t...

But whenever I talk about the stages of grief, I have to remind people that the stages aren’t linear and may not happen in this order. It’s not a map but it provides some scaffolding for this unknown world. There’s denial, which we say a lot of early on: This virus won’t affect us . Ther...