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There is a sort of cruelty, Iddo Landau points out, in holding yourself to standards nobody could ever reach (and which many of us would never dream of demanding of other people). The more humane approach is to drop such efforts as completely as you can. Let your impossible standards crash to the ground. Then pick a few meaningful tasks from the rubble and get started on them today.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
So Covid’s long-term effects will reverberate through the country: [lower trust in institutions](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9242572/), an [absolute unwillingness](https://www.vox.com/23001426/pandemic-proof) to think seriously about preventing the next pandemic, [failing schools](https://www.vox.com/education/372475/math-reading-school-covid-education-learning-loss-kids), and [rising isolation](https://www.vox.com/2020/3/12/21173938/coronavirus-covid-19-social-distancing-elderly-epidemic-isolation-quarantine). And all that will unfold without any real clarity on how we got here and how we can make sure it never happens again.
America — And the Media — Needs a Covid Reckoning
Kelsey Piper
, one of the signs that trauma may be present is being forgetful.
10 Signs of Unresolved Trauma You Would Never Think Of
Gillian May
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