The Onion's Reflections on the Pandemic

The pandemic has magnified so many pre-existing conditions, taking things that the dominant culture swept under the rug and didn't want to see or acknowledge. And I want to speak now to our productivity addiction. An addiction that even before the pandemic was already leading to increasing levels of burnout. Our natural impulse was to ignore everything about the reality of the situation. But that's not resilience. That's not recognizing reality. To ignore the emotional signals of your body is like voluntarily putting yourself on a rocket ship to burn out. So look at the larger context and treat ourselves tenderly.