Let's talk about the COVID stress we're all feeling and how to help in emergencies
Today we offer up columns that will help you be prepared for emergencies, talk about COVID-related stress, and teach you about a who died after offering up decades of public service.
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Americans are unprepared for emergencies.
There are more than 16,000 deaths every single day due to traumatic injury, which require immediate medical attention, around the world. In the United States, unintentional injury is the third leading cause of death, and the No. 1 cause of death for Americans under the age of 45, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Do you know CPR? Do you know to put pressure on a bleeding wound? Could you offer a stranger help with basic emergency skills?
Unintended injuries are deadly: Are you prepared to step in and help?
Today's editorial cartoon
COVID-19 legacy can be more than stress
The idea that we can grow from trauma isn’t new. But there is something unique about post-traumatic growth in the wake of COVID-19: We’re doing it together.
Our shared struggles are fostering deeper empathy and connectedness. We’ve seen this in the solidarity that’s emerged in the Lean In and Option B communities; as one Lean In leader put it, it feels like we’re building a community that will last forever.
COVID-19 legacy can be post-traumatic growth, not just stress
John Warner's Foxhole Doctrine
John Warner, the former senator, Navy secretary and World War II and Korean War veteran who died last month at 94, will be honored Wednesday with a funeral at National Cathedral. We knew him as an enthusiastic adviser to With Honor Action, a cross-partisan organization working to reduce polarization and dysfunction in Congress by advancing principled veteran leadership.
In Warner’s final months, Rye Barcott and Matthew Wigler shared a series of life history interviews with him, during which he illuminated the principle that guided him over his decades of public service. He called it the “Foxhole Doctrine,” and believed it was the key to our future.
He first learned the doctrine from his father, John Warner II, a doctor who treated soldiers on the front lines of the bloody battlefields of World War I.
“He taught me the military principles,” Sen. Warner recalled. “Duty, honor, country. That’s the code which you have got to live up to. You’ve got to establish a trusting relationship with your fellow soldiers.”
This newsletter was compiled by Louie Villalobos