Welcome to our third edition of Dirty Talk, where we're going to stick with last week's topic of past experiences, sort of. We're going to be talking about COVID again, but from the context of how things were handled, how we the citizenry then responded, and most importantly, what we can take away from this experience to help improve our thinking and decision-making in the future. We’re then going to talk about the struggles many businesses are having in finding workers after COVID and use that topic to discuss two concepts we’ll cover in detail later in the program: blaming and perspective. Specifically, we're going to talk about how it's important to consider other perspectives, along with the pitfalls of blaming and directing our attention outwards.

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Sources used in podcast:

• Viruses travel on saliva droplets – not in isolation – and they’re HUGE compared to O2 and CO2 molecules:
• https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2009.0388.focus
• https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2013.0560
• Once again, masks work, homies:
• https://files.fast.ai/papers/masks_lit_review.pdf
• https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31142-9
• Review of overall vaccine safety:
• https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00372/full
• Moderna Vaccine Research Summary:
• https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2035389/suppl_file/nejmoa2035389_research-summary.pdf
• Pfizer Vaccine Research Summary:
• https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577/suppl_file/nejmoa2034577_research-summary.pdf
• Chances of dying from all sorts of shit:
• https://www.businessinsider.com/death-risk-statistics-terrorism-disease-accidents-2017-1
• All unemployment and wage data taken from:
• https://edd.ca.gov/