So I thought that COVID-19 would actually give me a break from work that I sorely need. But because I work with medical researchers (sort of considered a medical researcher myself), I'm being pulled into calls to help develop crisis communications and basically worked throughout the weekend, working late at night...we are all taking breaks as needed. I'm really inspired by these people I work with though because every time I feel just too tired and cranky to do anything else, I hear another patient story and my colleagues inspire me to keep going so we can help people manage and survive this crisis. But I am kind of exhausted.

This crisis just shows how we don't have enough interdisciplinary researchers who can understand science and translate it accurately into lay language. Journalists and politicians pretty much muck it up every time. Scientists can't drill it down to the information that lay people need to live their lives and be safe. Honestly, yeah soap box here, we need more artistically inclined individuals who also understand science (btw, most artists do so...).

I'm also having fellow consultants/freelancers turn to me, because they know I'm being pulled into this other work, if they can get some work to help me with my other clients who aren't as high priority right now, because their work is drying up. So I feel like I'm trying to find work to throw to people who would assist me, which does mean more work for me, but if I can collaborate and help people earn right now, then it seems like I should.

I'm so tired...