I am a total sucker for using different colour pens for coding, too.
I remember visiting when my kids were young and showing them the time clock and explaining how we had to clock in and out with a punch card.
in the early stages of organising themes of my (qualitative) PhD study, I bought several rolls of wrapping paper for mapping the categories I seeing in the interview material. I think working in that different way uses (liberates?) a different part of the brain. It greatly informed my analysis.
How 5 of history’s worst pandemics ended. The Black Death went on for 7 years and resurfaced 40 times in the next 300 years. www.history.com/news/pandemi...
While some of the earliest pandemics faded by wiping out parts of the population, medical and public health initiatives were able to halt the spread of other diseases.
I opened an account months ago, but actually came over and engaged a few weeks ago.
EIAs should look at widest determinants and their impact on outcomes. They can be conducted in a very narrow way, but the tool is potentially quite wide-ranging and inclusive of communities.
a tool which exists already is Equality Impact Assessment, which could be conducted when considering a response to any situation. In practice, in my bit of local govt, at the start of the pandemic, EIA was sidelined - and we later had to unpick a lot of the resulting issues.
I'm finally trying to shift myself from the bad place to a platform that's + civil & < conducive to fanaticism, so I will try to share here more. To that end, here's my most recent piece, on why folks stop masking after their first c. infection... essaysyoudidntwanttoread.home.blog/2024/08/22/w...
Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of posts on social media that ask “why do people who were masking suddenly stop after having covid?” This is definitely “a thing” – one that I’ve seen occur among many o...