In this “Reflections” episode trailer, Teri and Michael check in with one another during our lockdown in NYC and talk about the gendered impact of the COVID-19. We explore how the coronavirus is disproportionately impact women in preparation for some deeper upcoming conversations.
During our conversation, Michael and I touched upon the following resources:
- Healthcare officials’ consideration to recommend broader use of face masks
- The shortage of the masks in the United States
- How domestic violence incidents have increased since and enabled by the lockdown
- A United Nations’ 2018 study on how the home is the most dangerous place for women titled “Global Study on Homicide“
- The connection between male unemployment and increased rates of domestic violence
- How abusers are weaponizing he coronavirus to further interfere with the relationship between protective mother and child–a typical #abusertactic
- The #abusertactic of “parental alienation” or “parental alienation syndrome (PAS)” to discredit claims of abuse and Joan Meier’s research on how courts punish mothers for reporting abuse
- Increased independent and Democratic support for Trump despite his bungling of the COVID-19 crisis
- Behind the numbers of Trump’s approval rating
- How Trump is touting the use of a non-CDC tested and approved drug, Hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug, to treat coronavirus, and how an Arizona man died self-medicating with a form of the drug
- Trump’s misogynistic attacks on women leading the charge to help their companies or states in response to the coronavius
- How a Texas official believes that the elderly should and want to die from COVID-19 in order to save the economy
- How the media was mischaracterizing Democrats’ opposition to stimulus bill components that favored corporations over individuals as obstructionist
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