Webinar: Disaster Preparedness During a Pandemic

Today's #Pandemic Postcards

A Webinar

A webinar SOON about Disaster Preparedness During a Pandemic

RantWoman enthusiastically invites readers to check out the above link. RantWoman was a little confused about the date.because of info about a different webinar on a different date. Regretably RantWoman has a schedule conflict and would be thrilled to hear there will be a recording she can fit into another time window.

The webinar will cover financial preparedness, mental health support, and online safety. This is Planet RantWoman so please bear with what all is coming to mind.

Financial Preparedness
RantWoman feels VERY lucky that her finances have not changed nearly as much as many other people's. RantWoman notes that prices are higher for many things in grocery stores. Over time that will not be good for people on fixed incomes but people who have lost jobs undoubtedly are already feeling this. RantWoman can read all she wants of fiscal crises at different levels of government. But the money matter most immediately on RantWoman's mind is, once again, laundry change. RantWoman checked her stash of quarters. There are plenty for the next batch of laundry. However, RantWoman has heard some kind of rumor that a shortage of quarters looms. The rumor RantWoman has heard but not had time to sleuth out is that the government is not producing more quarters in hopes that people will do more transactions online.

Hello! The laundry room wants quarters. It cannot eat anything else and produce clean laundry. So RantWoman needs to check out the rumor and then shut up so all the people in much worse shape can talk.

Mental Health Support, RantWoman's recipe
Gratitude: find something to be grateful for. Work in some laughter too if at all possible. RantWoman has a friend who can tell RantWoman the most woe evoking detail from friend's latest family of origin experiences and about 10 words in RantWoman will burst out laughing. RantWoman sometimes apologizes but friend reassures RantWoman "That's what I call you for."

RantWoman strongly recommends a good faith community even though she and her faith community currently are very busy reminding each other why we need a good faith community

RantWoman has a therapist. Therapist and RantWoman are finally in sync about virtual appointments. Give us both credit for working through that!

RantWoman has multiple info streams offering suggestions about practices to promote sleep, stay hydrated, count one's blessings. RantWoman is still a hot mess too much of the time, but all these suggestions help.

Network with other people you share an affinity with. Recently RantWoman was asked to be on a panel of adults living with blindness and willing to share their experiences with blind students and parents with connections to the Department of Services for the Blind summer YES program. RantWoman stumbled into disaster preparedness when she was dealing with vocational rehabilitation. Organizing community training events was  one of the things that helped RantWoman sort out things she can do and things it is better to do teamwork about. Another of the panelists also mentioned kind of stumbling into disaster preparedness just by doing one thing and then another in various job roles. There would be more to say, but not this second. Just check out the webinar!

Online Safety
RantWoman regrets to complain: RantWoman is around too many people for whom the first necessary aspect of online safety would be #DigitalEquity and being able to get online in the first place. But the  (great?) thing about online safety: there is probably a lot less to worry about if one cannot get online in the first place!

ANyway, check out the webinar and stay tuned for more #pandemic verbal peregrinations