Coping with a Pandemic
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A note from a psychologist friend of Flu Wiki:
In your bird flu prep plans, don’t forget mental health—you’ll need a hefty supply of strength, resolve and useful ways to manage stress and maintain resilience as much as you will need water and food. The good news is that psychological resilience has no expiration date, is something you can do anywhere and with work continues to strengthen across time. Go to the American Psychological Association’s help center, click on the menu “articles and information” scroll down to “disasters and terrorism” and open that screen. There you will find a number of articles on dealing with disasters, how to build resilience, how to help young children and teens. The pieces are well written and provide very practical help. I think one of the best is The Road to Resilience. I would strongly encourage you to download and print it and any others you think would be helpful and keep them available. Practical help in building and maintaining resilience and strength during a disastrous event is foundational to any other planning you are doing for you and your family’s well-being.
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Adjustment Reactions
Just thinking about a pandemic may elicit an emotional reaction, herein defined -
Coping With Your Emotions in a Pandemic
This is a collaborative effort by Science Teacher and others. -
Home Alone
This is a commentary on what I wish I had done when I had ordinary human influenza, complicated by pneumonia. It includes logistical advice rather than medical advice on what to do if you’re stuck at home when you should probably be in a hospital. -
Bag of tricks
This is a list of things people have tried or imagined they would do to deal with disruption at home. It includes things we may want to do when we’re healthy but things don’t work well around us. Things like keeping warm, refrigerating or cooking food, etc. -
Self Organising
This includes all the ways to cooperate around predictable and unpredictable (and big and small and you-name-it) situations. We have started already with this wiki but there’s more. -
Workplace Continuity and the related problem of “what to do if schools close”
At some point in time, there may be need to close down schools. For many weeks or some months. Which in turn is a problem for parents of all kinds: grandparents may or may not be available to take care of kids, in many families there’s just one parent (the other is away for whatever reason), or both members of the parental couple must work away from home. This problem could also be re-framed as “Keep children in smaller groups” or as “Schools close, then what”.
