Hey guys, this is Joy. And this is Claire. And this is Joy and Claire. And on this episode, we wanted to highlight what listeners are saying right now. We asked for your emails. We asked for your thoughts. We asked for what you're experiencing right now. We wanted to hear from you. And we wanted to hear what you wanted to say right now. So we have some emails and we have some voice memos. We wanted

to put this episode on a separate feed because we just felt like it was something that we wanted to

completely separate from what we had to say or what we were talking about right now. So the first

email I want to read is from Amanda and she says, hey guys, I just wanted to tell you I related to Claire's

feelings in this episode. I'm absolutely all about the Black Lives Matter movement, and I totally

agree about doing a ton of personal work to figure out my own personal biases. However, as the mother

of a six-month-old and a pulmonologist and ICU physician, my plate is super full. And while I might have a few

hours of free time a day, I have very little mental energy to think about how I can best contribute.

I don't feel right asking people to help simplify this for me, and it's really hard to spend

my free time thinking about something that's so deep. And this is not to complain about life,

but to say please continue addressing

tough issues. As your episode allowed me time to confront my biases during my commute, and while this is

obviously not a deep, as deep of a reflection as I need, it did allow me to do something, which is super

helpful. Sorry if this is disjointed, but just wanted to express my support of you guys talking about

this. It gave me space to think, which is so important. Also, Claire, I'm so excited about playgrounds, too.

It's time for my baby's first swing, and my six-month-old has been in daycare as much as it has

been open, as I believe his risk from daycare is not that much more compared to the risk

that I bring home to him. I totally agree with your reflections on this, along with Brandon's

experience working on the COVID floor. Keep doing what you guys do. Amanda. Thank you, Amanda. And I think

that's something that a lot of people are finding that it's hard to think about or that they're

having a hard time finding space to think about. And I would just really like gently urge you to not make people feel guilty, but just urge you that this is not. This is something that is so important and that we, quite frankly, I kind of am stumbling on words, but thinking along the lines of like, we don't have the luxury of just saying like, I need to find the time or I don't have the time. While we are so busy, I think Amanda makes a point

of like, she is making time. She is thinking about this. So we don't need it to be perfect. We just

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