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šŸ¦ 248: Horseshoe Theories and Ongoing Pandemic Pivots with Dr. MJC

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Pandemic-response expert Dr. MJC is back for our 15th (!) installment in the Pivoting Around a Pandemic series. In this ā€œpandepicā€ two-hour round, we riff on: what weā€™ve been up to this summer, the five gnarly viruses weā€™re experiencing (COVID being only one), the horseshoe theory of political ideologies, discourse and censorship, tyranny and the fall of empires, vaccine trials, vitamin D, second-hand social media, and more.

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Background on the Pivoting Around a Pandemic Podcast Series

Background from our kick-off to this Pivoting Around A Pandemic series: With so much happening daily in the world and global economy around coronavirus, weā€™re all dealing with massive amounts of uncertainty, pivots at work, and for manyā€”fear and anxiety that comes with not only the health concerns, but questions around how to maintain our livelihoods moving forward.

When Momentum member and pandemic expert Dr. Michael J. Consuelos reached out to offer himself as a resource to the JBE team and the MoMo community, I jumped at the chance to record a conversation for all of you as well, which has now turned into a full-blown series. Watch recent Pivot workshops and check out all the recent episodes at PivotMethod.com/pandemic Ā»

More about Dr. Michael J. Consuelos

Dr. Michael J. Consuelos is the Principal at MJC Solutions, a veteran-owned, small business that provides professional consulting and advisory services to organizations serving the healthcare sector. He has held several leadership roles in emergency preparedness and pandemic response since 1997.

His extensive experience includes leading a health system pandemic response to the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. Dr. Consuelosā€™ coordination of the health system response with local, state, and federal authorities to maintain healthcare business continuity has been used as a model by other hospital systems.

Dr. Consuelos received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his pediatric training at Childrenā€™s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He received his Executive MBA from the Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Business and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Topics Covered

  • What we've been up to this summer

  • 21:20 - Business ups and downs this year, coming out the other side

    1. 25:00 - At least 5 gnarly viruses of 2020:

      1. 26:51 - Physical - Actual COVID

      2. 27:15 - Psychological - Fear of COVID

      3. 27:56 - Social: fear of each other (fake news, cancel culture, protests)

      4. 28:39 - Economic - everything shut-down

      5. 29:16 - Political - fear-mongering, divisiveness, politicking pre-election, lying/scheming, gaslighting of broader Americans in service of winning at all costs, news smoke-and-mirrors and decoys to divert attention

  • 32:19 - On Tyranny by Tim Snyder, the Fall of Empires, and hubris

  • 42:52 - Horseshoe theory of far-left, centrist, far-right

  • 44:13 - On Joe Rogan and the campaign from Spotify staffers to implement editorial involvement

  • 1:00:35 - Censorship and cancel culture

  • 1:09:54 - Vaccines: is it possible? Would you sign up for a trial? Would you get it in the first wave? Do you trust pharmaceutical companies?

  • 1:34:06 - Vitamin D's role in our immunity

  • 1:44:11 - Questioning how we work as it relates to our health

  • 1:45:44 - Considering the downstream effects of so much accelerated technological advancement

  • 1:47:34 - Surge capacity depletion

  • 1:51:27 - Second-hand social media

  • 1:52:10 - Cut out anything extraneous: do you miss it?

  • 1:54:10 - Topic teasers for next time: travel, going to the movies, schools

Resources Mentioned

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