Watching the news over COVID-19 and seeing panic. Yes totally get it. People are dying and no cure or vaccine yet. What I don't get is people losing their common sense. Stocking up on items for the year and wiping out items like hand sanitizers. How many do you really need? Do you realize that by purchasing ALL of them off the shelf the next person has nothing? Seriously all those little plastic bottles in your home? Now the person you run into hasn't disinfected their hands because they had nothing to use, because they are all at your house. Common sense? Nope.
Masks! Don't get me started. Let's pay attention to how often we touch our face. A lot. Studies show when you wear a mask you touch your face more often because you are adjusting the mask. Feeling if it is still okay. You hand automatically goes up there. Hence you are touching your face more and what about taking it off incorrectly? Hmmm..... infected yourself. Well done. Leave the masks at the hospitals where they belong.
Yes wash your hands. Which you should have been doing BEFORE this. Get a flu shot. Can you imagine if social media reported on people dying who didn't get their flu shot like they are reporting on COVID-19! Something to think about.
Last Facebook isn't the World Health Organization (WHO). So go to their site not your friends or any post that doesn't come from CDC, your own health department or WHO. The rest of it is scare tactics to increase someone circulation. Common sense. Get your news at reputable sites.
Wednesday 20 May 2020
Wednesday 13 May 2020
Being on a team is a feeling
Recently we were having a discussion about being on a team. That it is more than "Team A" or "Team B". Mouthing or introducing X is on our team. She/he glues us together is meaningless if you don't proceed to make that person feel part of a team.
Being on a team is a feeling. That you are part of something bigger. If you proceed to say Sheila is alone this week even if X will be there also, than is X really part of this "team"? I have heard individuals say oh I meant one of us isn't here. That means Sheila is the only one on her team here as X doesn't factor into it. Period. If you don't include X in conversations, as part of a body being present, than don't mouth they are part of your team to outsiders. What they are is support people. Which is fine but say it like it is.
There is nothing wrong with support people - we need them. They do their job and yeah can be part of the glue to hold a "team" together. But they are not part of the team is they don't feel it. If they are excluded from writing their names on cards, don't know who is off that day or covering. Don't be a hypocrite and tell outsiders X is on your team. That says to X is that you want to look inclusive when you're not. That is is all about you looking like a "team player". Say it like it is X is our support person we couldn't do without.
Being on a team is a feeling. Don't mouth it and think it makes it so. Don't make introductions that are not true and belittle an individual. Say it like it is. If you can't make someone feel like they are on the team. Fine. But don't "mouth" it to others to look better than you are.
My rant.
Being on a team is a feeling. That you are part of something bigger. If you proceed to say Sheila is alone this week even if X will be there also, than is X really part of this "team"? I have heard individuals say oh I meant one of us isn't here. That means Sheila is the only one on her team here as X doesn't factor into it. Period. If you don't include X in conversations, as part of a body being present, than don't mouth they are part of your team to outsiders. What they are is support people. Which is fine but say it like it is.
There is nothing wrong with support people - we need them. They do their job and yeah can be part of the glue to hold a "team" together. But they are not part of the team is they don't feel it. If they are excluded from writing their names on cards, don't know who is off that day or covering. Don't be a hypocrite and tell outsiders X is on your team. That says to X is that you want to look inclusive when you're not. That is is all about you looking like a "team player". Say it like it is X is our support person we couldn't do without.
Being on a team is a feeling. Don't mouth it and think it makes it so. Don't make introductions that are not true and belittle an individual. Say it like it is. If you can't make someone feel like they are on the team. Fine. But don't "mouth" it to others to look better than you are.
My rant.
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