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When do epidemiologists plan on sending their kids to school?
A New York Times article polled 500 epidemiologists on when they plan on sending their children back to school. Many said “it depends” on the rate of infection transmission in their area and the safety measures schools are taking.
MassMutual joins the COVID Relief Coalition to provide small businesses and nonprofits with pro bono legal services
https://www.covidreliefcoalition.com/en
“Seeing race is not the problem. Refusing to care for the people we see is the problem. We should hope not for a colorblind society, but instead for a world in which we can see each other fully, learn from each other, and do what we can to respond to each other with love.”
Eating more plant-based food
I’ve been a vegetarian almost all my life (except for when I ate chicken to assimilate but a story for another day). However, I’ve been trying to minimize animal products, particularly dairy. While I’ve been able to successfully eliminate my daily dairy in coffee and cheese, it has been harder to give up eggs, yogurt and the occasional cheesy pizza.I found this masala tofu scramble that has been a nice replacement for weekend brunch eggs and started following Radhi Devlukia on Insta (@radhidevlukia). Here’s a link to the recipe; https://www.radhidevlukia.co/post/masala-scrambled-tofu-get-yo-spice-on-v-gf
What I’m reading next
After watching 13th on Netflix (you can watch the full-length film here), this book is next on my list. In its review of the book, The New York Times says: “The book marshals pages of statistics and legal citations to argue that the get-tough approach to crime that began in the Nixon administration and intensified with Ronald Reagan’s declaration of the war on drugs has devastated black America. Today, Professor Alexander writes, nearly one-third of black men are likely to spend time in prison at some point, only to find themselves falling into permanent second-class citizenship after they get out. That is a familiar argument made by many critics of the criminal justice system, but Professor Alexander’s book goes further, asserting that the crackdown was less a response to the actual explosion of violent crime than a deliberate effort to push back the gains of the civil rights movement.”
My new year’s resolution was to start meditating on a daily basis. I started using the Insight Timer app and am loving it!