#NewPlaceNewRhythm #recap #新地方新節奏 #中文⏬
What happens when you move from a city with a population of 2.7million to a little town in Hawaii (~4000 people) during covid?
YOU SLOW DOWN.
Besides working online, I spent most of my past weeks resting, reading, exercising, and - let’s be honest - chilling and sleeping! 😆
You’d think this is the dream, but believe me, as a workaholic this feels WEIRD. And guilty. (Uff why can’t I just enjoy🤦🏽♀️) I’m so used to the high-speed life, full schedule. And now I’m just floating around it seems, placing one foot at a time, figuring out where what how.
After 11 years in Taiwan, this was to be expected. I wanted a change. I just didn’t know how it was gonna be.
Moving to a new place is like starting from 0 (or 1 because at least I don’t need to learn a new language this time). I get to rebuild my life and my routines. It’s fun, but it’s also hard, because I don’t know what my new “building blocks” are until I find them. There’s no structure.
But I’m committing to this slow process now. I want to allow more things I love to enter my life and let superficial distractions pass through. There’s a lot of silence and emptiness too right now, but I am allowing that space to exist within me, maybe keeping it empty for a while. Why not? Silence has a voice too.
“Life’s not a competition, it’s an adventure”, I remind myself.
You can go fast, or you can go slow. Just keep moving to your own rhythm. 👣
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當妳在新冠病毒期間從一個大城市(人口270萬)搬到夏威夷的一個小鎮時(人口約4000 )會發生什麼?
你。會。慢。下。來。很。多。
除了在線工作之外,我過去幾週大部分時間都在休息、做家事、跟愛人去海邊,閱讀、運動,還有⋯睡覺! 😆
聽起來很像夢想?相信我,作為一個工作狂,這感覺很奇怪,好像有罪⋯ (幹嘛不好好享受就好🤦🏽♀️)我在台灣已經習慣了高速忙碌的生活,但現在的我似乎感覺是漂浮在宇宙中,只能一步一步慢慢來,因為建立基礎總是最難。
在台灣待了 11 年後,這也不是意外吧。我過來就是想做出改變。 只是改變之前其實我不知道結果會怎麼樣。
搬到一個新的地方就像從0開始(或從1開始因為至少這次至少不需要再學一個新語言)。
我開始重建我的生活,找新結構。雖然這滿有趣,但也有他的難處,因為在尋找和認識新地方時,心裡會不穩定。
但我已開始擁抱這個緩慢的過程。 想讓更多我喜愛的東西進入生活,同時過濾不必要的事物。雖然常常也有沉默和空虛,但我想允許那個空間存我的內心,也許讓它空虛一段時間。 為何不? 沉默也有聲音。
生活不是比賽,而是旅程
我們可以走得快,也可以走得慢
繼續按照自己的節奏前進就好👣
~
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今早為Asian Medical Students Association Hong Kong (AMSAHK)的新一屆執行委員會就職典禮作致詞分享嘉賓,題目為「疫情中的健康不公平」。
感謝他們的熱情款待以及為整段致詞拍了影片。以下我附上致詞的英文原稿:
It's been my honor to be invited to give the closing remarks for the Inauguration Ceremony for the incoming executive committee of the Asian Medical Students' Association Hong Kong (AMSAHK) this morning. A video has been taken for the remarks I made regarding health inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic (big thanks to the student who withstood the soreness of her arm for holding the camera up for 15 minutes straight), and here's the transcript of the main body of the speech that goes with this video:
//The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, continues to be rampant around the world since early 2020, resulting in more than 55 million cases and 1.3 million deaths worldwide as of today. (So no! It’s not a hoax for those conspiracy theorists out there!) A higher rate of incidence and deaths, as well as worse health-related quality of life have been widely observed in the socially disadvantaged groups, including people of lower socioeconomic position, older persons, migrants, ethnic minority and communities of color, etc. While epidemiologists and scientists around the world are dedicated in gathering scientific evidence on the specific causes and determinants of the health inequalities observed in different countries and regions, we can apply the Social Determinants of Health Conceptual Framework developed by the World Health Organization team led by the eminent Prof Sir Michael Marmot, world’s leading social epidemiologist, to understand and delineate these social determinants of health inequalities related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to this framework, social determinants of health can be largely categorized into two types – 1) the lower stream, intermediary determinants, and 2) the upper stream, structural and macro-environmental determinants. For the COVID-19 pandemic, we realized that the lower stream factors may include material circumstances, such as people’s living and working conditions. For instance, the nature of the occupations of these people of lower socioeconomic position tends to require them to travel outside to work, i.e., they cannot work from home, which is a luxury for people who can afford to do it. This lack of choice in the location of occupation may expose them to greater risk of infection through more transportation and interactions with strangers. We have also seen infection clusters among crowded places like elderly homes, public housing estates, and boarding houses for foreign domestic helpers. Moreover, these socially disadvantaged people tend to have lower financial and social capital – it can be observed that they were more likely to be deprived of personal protective equipment like face masks and hand sanitizers, especially during the earlier days of the pandemic. On the other hand, the upper stream, structural determinants of health may include policies related to public health, education, macroeconomics, social protection and welfare, as well as our governance… and last, but not least, our culture and values. If the socioeconomic and political contexts are not favorable to the socially disadvantaged, their health and well-being will be disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Therefore, if we, as a society, espouse to address and reduce the problem of health inequalities, social determinants of health cannot be overlooked in devising and designing any public health-related strategies, measures and policies.
Although a higher rate of incidence and deaths have been widely observed in the socially disadvantaged groups, especially in countries with severe COVID-19 outbreaks, this phenomenon seems to be less discussed and less covered by media in Hong Kong, where the disease incidence is relatively low when compared with other countries around the world. Before the resurgence of local cases in early July, local spread of COVID-19 was sporadic and most cases were imported. In the earlier days of the pandemic, most cases were primarily imported by travelers and return-students studying overseas, leading to a minor surge between mid-March and mid-April of 874 new cases. Most of these cases during Spring were people who could afford to travel and study abroad, and thus tended to be more well-off. Therefore, some would say the expected social gradient in health impact did not seem to exist in Hong Kong, but may I remind you that, it is only the case when we focus on COVID-19-specific incidence and mortality alone. But can we really deduce from this that COVID-19-related health inequality does not exist in Hong Kong? According to the Social Determinants of Health Framework mentioned earlier, the obvious answer is “No, of course not.” And here’s why…
In addition to the direct disease burden, the COVID-19 outbreak and its associated containment measures (such as economic lockdown, mandatory social distancing, and change of work arrangements) could have unequal wider socioeconomic impacts on the general population, especially in regions with pervasive existing social inequalities. Given the limited resources and capacity of the socioeconomically disadvantaged to respond to emergency and adverse events, their general health and well-being are likely to be unduly and inordinately affected by the abrupt changes in their daily economic and social conditions, like job loss and insecurity, brought about by the COVID-19 outbreak and the corresponding containment and mitigation measures of which the main purpose was supposedly disease prevention and health protection at the first place. As such, focusing only on COVID-19 incidence or mortality as the outcomes of concern to address health inequalities may leave out important aspects of life that contributes significantly to people’s health. Recently, my research team and I collaborated with Sir Michael Marmot in a Hong Kong study, and found that the poor people in Hong Kong fared worse in every aspects of life than their richer counterparts in terms of economic activity, personal protective equipment, personal hygiene practice, as well as well-being and health after the COVID-19 outbreak. We also found that part of the observed health inequality can be attributed to the pandemic and its related containment measures via people’s concerns over their own and their families’ livelihood and economic activity. In other words, health inequalities were contributed by the pandemic even in a city where incidence is relatively low through other social determinants of health that directly concerned the livelihood and economic activity of the people. So in this study, we confirmed that focusing only on the incident and death cases as the outcomes of concern to address health inequalities is like a story half-told, and would severely truncate and distort the reality.
Truth be told, health inequality does not only appear after the pandemic outbreak of COVID-19, it is a pre-existing condition in countries and regions around the world, including Hong Kong. My research over the years have consistently shown that people in lower socioeconomic position tend to have worse physical and mental health status. Nevertheless, precisely because health inequality is nothing new, there are always voices in our society trying to dismiss the problem, arguing that it is only natural to have wealth inequality in any capitalistic society. However, in reckoning with health inequalities, we need to go beyond just figuring out the disparities or differences in health status between the poor and the rich, and we need to raise an ethically relevant question: are these inequalities, disparities and differences remediable? Can they be fixed? Can we do something about them? If they are remediable, and we can do something about them but we haven’t, then we’d say these inequalities are ultimately unjust and unfair. In other words, a society that prides itself in pursuing justice must, and I say must, strive to address and reduce these unfair health inequalities. Borrowing the words from famed sociologist Judith Butler, “the virus alone does not discriminate,” but “social and economic inequality will make sure that it does.” With COVID-19, we learn that it is not only the individuals who are sick, but our society. And it’s time we do something about it.
Thank you very much!//
Please join me in congratulating the incoming executive committee of AMSAHK and giving them the best wishes for their future endeavor!
Roger Chung, PhD
Assistant Professor, CUHK JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, @CUHK Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 香港中文大學 - CUHK
Associate Director, CUHK Institute of Health Equity
figuring 中文 在 Alexander Wang 王梓沅英文 Facebook 的精選貼文
幾天前從政大國際演講社社長那收到這樣的回饋,心理覺得暖暖的。5、6 月是畢業季,有不少畢業生因為疫情的關係,面臨在找工作上極大的挑戰。在歐美的學生,甚至有很多「工作 offer被收回的現象」。
對未來的未知的恐懼,特別是20代、30 代的我們共同有的情緒。
我的人生經驗有限,所以面對這樣的情緒,我想要分享賓州大學心理學教授 Angela Duckworth 在幾天前藉由 Zoom,分享給賓州大學網球校隊球員們的一段話。
【中文大意】
「有恆毅力的人,當他們被申請的公司拒絕時,他們也會 get discouraged. “But they just keep going.” 在我訪問過極為頂尖的球員、學者、音樂家、科學家中,99.99% 的時候他們也是被拒絕的。但是你知道嗎?他們在那唯一得到的機會上去努力。”You take the one, and you go for it.” 而這樣的故事,會在我們人生當中一直發生 (This story would get repeated so many times)。」
「我曾經跟一位哈佛大學的教授聊天,他說當初他在申請研究所的時候,只進了一所,有 19 所學校拒絕他。當他在申請工作的時候,也被所有的大學拒絕,只有哈佛大學錄取了他。”I got one job, everybody else turned me down.”」
就像2年前她在Penn 給畢業典禮演說時,她曾經說過的 (譯中): 「即便我現在已經站在講台上給予畢業演說,我還是會有很多自我懷疑的時刻。我還是做了很多錯誤的決定。我還是會花時間在結果不 work out 的研究計劃上。即便到現在,我還是會收到 Journal reviewers 寫了長長三頁告訴我 how my writing sucks.」
「請相信我,我研究過世界各個領域最傑出的人才,我可以告訴你,you’re figuring things out.」
➠ Angela Duckworth 本人授權,全球獨家結合英語窄式學習、語塊、與正向心理學的英語線上課程 https://bit.ly/3dzs608
➠ 影片 link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DGvJFbiT54
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