# I Have Some Thoughts Minisode | Latto, Allyson Felix, & Hantavirus

An episode of [Therapy for Black Girls](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1223803641), 15 May 2026, 19 min.

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Welcome to Episode 1 of our new minisode series, "I Have Some Thoughts." These short episodes are designed to contextualize the pop culture moments we're currently paying attention to through a mental health lens. Pop culture isn't just fun to chat about, it can reveal important information about how we relate, cope, and understand ourselves. Join us each Friday to hear Dr. Joy share her thoughts about the happenings of the week. This week, we're chatting about Latto's retirement announcement, Allyson Felix's return to racing, and the Hantavirus outbreak. Resources Mentioned Dr. Titanji Stay Connected Is there a topic you'd like covered on the podcast? Submit it at therapyforblackgirls.com/mailbox. If you're looking for a therapist in your area, check out the directory at https://www.therapyforblackgirls.com/directory. Grab your copy of our guided affirmation and other TBG Merch at therapyforblackgirls.com/shop. The hashtag for the podcast is #TBGinSession. Make sure to follow us on social media: Instagram: @therapyforblackgirls Facebook: @therapyforblackgirls Our Production Team Executive Producers: Dennison Bradford & Gabrielle Collins Director of Podcast & Digital Content: Ellice Ellis Producers: Tyree Rush & Ndeye Thioubou Production Assistant: Bria Mosley See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:10] Speaker 1: I am very excited to be back for what we
[0:12] Speaker 1: are now calling. I think I have some thoughts. So
[0:16] Speaker 1: when we've done like little mini episodes before, when I
[0:19] Speaker 1: wanted to just talk about a particular thing I've called it,
[0:22] Speaker 1: I have some thoughts, and so I think we're gonna
[0:23] Speaker 1: stay with that name unless, like we come up with
[0:25] Speaker 1: something better. But we have experimented with this being a
[0:28] Speaker 1: part of our typical Wednesday episodes, and now we are
[0:31] Speaker 1: gonna try spinning it off into its own kind of
[0:34] Speaker 1: little minisode. So now you will be getting of Therapy
[0:37] Speaker 1: for Black Girl's episode on Wednesdays and Fridays. Very exciting.
[0:41] Speaker 1: So definitely let us know how you are thinking about this,
[0:45] Speaker 1: what topic you want us to discuss, because we are
[0:47] Speaker 1: paying attention, So you can send that to us at
[0:50] Speaker 1: Therapy for Black Girls dot com slash mailbox and let
[0:53] Speaker 1: us know your feedback about this new I have some
[0:55] Speaker 1: thoughts on minisodes. More from our conversation after the break. So, brio,
[1:07] Speaker 1: what do we have on the roster for today?
[1:10] Speaker 2: Yes, a lot of super exciting stuff. So first things first,
[1:14] Speaker 2: let's talk about Lotto's retirement album. So if you missed
[1:19] Speaker 2: it over the weekend, rapper Lotto sparked a lot of
[1:22] Speaker 2: conversation after she announced that her next upcoming album, Big Mama,
[1:27] Speaker 2: is actually going to be her retirement album. Now, this
[1:30] Speaker 2: has started a lot of conversation amongst fans because she
[1:34] Speaker 2: hasn't been in the game that long as you might
[1:37] Speaker 2: maybe assume. However, a lot of people are assuming she's
[1:42] Speaker 2: going to be stepping back from music to focus on
[1:44] Speaker 2: her new motherhood journey. So this kind of sparked a
[1:48] Speaker 2: bigger conversation of why maybe women feel pressure to frame
[1:52] Speaker 2: motherhood and career as opposing choices. So, from your perspective,
[1:57] Speaker 2: why do you think women often feel this pressure to
[2:00] Speaker 2: eventually choose between professional success and family life and why
[2:04] Speaker 2: is it so hard for them to co exist?
[2:07] Speaker 1: So this is a very interesting question, and I don't
[2:10] Speaker 1: know that they always have to be in opposition, But
[2:14] Speaker 1: what I will say is that especially as a first
[2:18] Speaker 1: time mom, because I think this is her first child, right, yes, yeah, okay,
[2:22] Speaker 1: so as a first time mom, I think you don't
[2:24] Speaker 1: know what you don't know, and so like, just for
[2:27] Speaker 1: my own personal experience, when I had my first son,
[2:31] Speaker 1: I definitely fully planned on having him being all for
[2:34] Speaker 1: the requisite six eight weeks or however long I got
[2:37] Speaker 1: from attorney leave, because at that time I was in
[2:39] Speaker 1: a full time job, and so I expected to be
[2:41] Speaker 1: on attorney leave and then go back and just do
[2:43] Speaker 1: both at the same time. And then I don't know,
[2:46] Speaker 1: at what point in that postpartum journey, maybe two weeks,
[2:51] Speaker 1: maybe a month into it, I realized I actually did
[2:54] Speaker 1: not want to go back to work, at least not
[2:57] Speaker 1: in the same way. And so I think, again, I
[3:00] Speaker 1: fully planned to kind of do both. But I think
[3:02] Speaker 1: for some women, something changes after the little one gets here,
[3:06] Speaker 1: you know, again seeking for myself the idea of, oh
[3:09] Speaker 1: my gosh, I'm gonna have my baby with, you know,
[3:12] Speaker 1: a babysitter or in nursery school. Like I think that
[3:15] Speaker 1: there's just a lot happening harmonially and kind of just
[3:18] Speaker 1: a lot going on again, especially for your first child,
[3:21] Speaker 1: And so I think some women go into it with
[3:23] Speaker 1: a plan maybe to return back to work at the
[3:25] Speaker 1: same pace, and then you realize afterwards that you don't
[3:28] Speaker 1: want to. But I also think that sometimes priorities just
[3:31] Speaker 1: shift in that you decide, you know what, this is
[3:34] Speaker 1: something that I want to devote myself to fully right now,
[3:37] Speaker 1: and then if I decide that I want career to
[3:40] Speaker 1: come back on board at some point, then I can
[3:43] Speaker 1: make that decision then. But I don't think it has
[3:45] Speaker 1: to be in opposition, and I don't think any choice
[3:48] Speaker 1: is right or wrong right. It is really just about
[3:50] Speaker 1: what works for you and what works for your family.
[3:53] Speaker 1: So what is some of the commentary or people saying like, oh,
[3:55] Speaker 1: she shouldn't have to choose or do.
[3:58] Speaker 2: I think it's a mix. So I think it's the
[4:00] Speaker 2: general conversation of once kids start to enter the picture, women,
[4:05] Speaker 2: a lot of women choose to step back from their careers.
[4:07] Speaker 2: A lot of the conversation is also surrounding the fact
[4:09] Speaker 2: that she's been putting out music for a while, so
[4:12] Speaker 2: I won't say that she's brand new to the game,
[4:14] Speaker 2: but at the same time, she is still pretty young,
[4:17] Speaker 2: and people are wondering, Like the announcement of a retirement,
[4:20] Speaker 2: I felt a little jarring because it was just she's
[4:23] Speaker 2: I think, put out three official studio albums and she's
[4:27] Speaker 2: been putting out mixtapes before that. But I think a
[4:30] Speaker 2: lot of people, myself included, are fans of Lotto and
[4:33] Speaker 2: know how good she is at what she does, and
[4:35] Speaker 2: it's like, oh, like you're almost there kind of thing.
[4:38] Speaker 1: So yeah, m m hmm, yeah, I mean it could
[4:41] Speaker 1: be a temporary kind of thing, you know, and she
[4:43] Speaker 1: decides maybe when the baby's a little older, that she
[4:45] Speaker 1: wants to come back. But I do think, again, I
[4:48] Speaker 1: don't know if this was something planned or if the
[4:50] Speaker 1: baby is here yet, but I do think, like I said,
[4:52] Speaker 1: for me, I had every intention of going back to
[4:54] Speaker 1: work full time and then my baby guy and I
[4:56] Speaker 1: was like, absolutely not, I actually don't want to to
[5:00] Speaker 1: do that. And so I think a lot just changes
[5:02] Speaker 1: in the postpartum aspect, and you know, people just kind
[5:06] Speaker 1: of shift priorities maybe for sure.
[5:08] Speaker 2: And I think in that same vein, how would you
[5:11] Speaker 2: recommend for women who are maybe faced with this decision,
[5:15] Speaker 2: how would you recommend being able to delayate between I
[5:18] Speaker 2: need this temporary restor I just need to like take
[5:21] Speaker 2: some time versus maybe wanting to abandon or just divert
[5:26] Speaker 2: their path completely.
[5:28] Speaker 1: Mmmm. Yeah. I think in the kind of short run,
[5:31] Speaker 1: you don't always know, right, especially kind of immediately after
[5:34] Speaker 1: baby gets here. It does feel like a day to
[5:36] Speaker 1: day kind of thing. So I think you won't always know,
[5:40] Speaker 1: like if this is something that is a temporary break
[5:42] Speaker 1: versus something that is more long term. Like I think
[5:45] Speaker 1: for me, I did leave my job, but then I
[5:48] Speaker 1: think once they got a little older, then I felt like, Okay,
[5:52] Speaker 1: I'm feeling a little more arrested now, I'm feeling like
[5:54] Speaker 1: I have more energy now. And so then it did
[5:57] Speaker 1: become well therapy for black girls. It took off also
[6:00] Speaker 1: in the postpartum period, and so then I felt, Okay,
[6:02] Speaker 1: I'm ready to kind of go back to something full
[6:05] Speaker 1: time at the same time as I'm raising the kids.
[6:07] Speaker 1: And so I think you really just have to give
[6:09] Speaker 1: yourself Some times I feel it out and not feel
[6:12] Speaker 1: pressure to make any decision one way or the other.
[6:15] Speaker 1: I'm also aware that this comes with an incredible amount
[6:18] Speaker 1: of privilege, right like that I have the opportunity to
[6:21] Speaker 1: step back. That not everyone will necessarily have that choice.
[6:24] Speaker 1: But if you find yourself with the ability to make
[6:26] Speaker 1: that choice and you don't absolutely have to go back
[6:28] Speaker 1: to work, I think it's okay to kind of make
[6:30] Speaker 1: take some time to think about what is going to
[6:32] Speaker 1: be my next step. And even if you decide, you
[6:35] Speaker 1: know what, I'm going straight back to my career, that
[6:38] Speaker 1: you can give yourself permission to change your mind at
[6:40] Speaker 1: any time, one way or the other, right like, it
[6:42] Speaker 1: doesn't have to be I make a decision and now
[6:44] Speaker 1: I got to stick with it. It's also okay for
[6:46] Speaker 1: you to change your mind at any given point when
[6:48] Speaker 1: you feel like, you know what, something else might really
[6:50] Speaker 1: work better for me and my family right now.
[6:53] Speaker 2: No, for sure, I love that. I love that. So
[6:56] Speaker 2: for our next topic, we have Allison Felix returning to
[7:00] Speaker 2: the sport of track and field. So, after announcing her
[7:04] Speaker 2: retirement from track back in twenty twenty two, Alison Felix
[7:08] Speaker 2: announced that she is returning to the sport to pursue
[7:10] Speaker 2: a spot at the twenty twenty eight Olympic Games. Now
[7:14] Speaker 2: a lot of us, myself included, are very excited where
[7:16] Speaker 2: Alison's return. However, there has been a conversation brewing online
[7:21] Speaker 2: questioning whether at forty years old, she's too old to
[7:25] Speaker 2: be competing. I think this sparked a much broader conversation
[7:29] Speaker 2: about age and how age may impact confidence and ambition
[7:34] Speaker 2: and things of that nature, and is aging really a thing,
[7:37] Speaker 2: like is it really a barrier to pursuing what it
[7:40] Speaker 2: is that you're dreaming for and hoping for? But what
[7:44] Speaker 2: narratives do you see that women especially receive about aging
[7:47] Speaker 2: when it comes to aging out of certain dreams or
[7:51] Speaker 2: certain identities.
[7:54] Speaker 1: I think that the nuance for this conversation is that
[7:58] Speaker 1: if you were doing something like going back to school
[8:01] Speaker 1: or something, I think it's never too late to pursue
[8:04] Speaker 1: those kinds of dreams. I think because this is a
[8:06] Speaker 1: physical like a sport, then that may be a more
[8:09] Speaker 1: important part of the conversation. But I trust that Allison
[8:12] Speaker 1: has continued to take really good care of her body.
[8:15] Speaker 1: I'm sure she has an excellent team, and I think
[8:18] Speaker 1: this is one of those things where if she didn't
[8:21] Speaker 1: try it, I think she would always have these regrets
[8:24] Speaker 1: about what if should I have tried that in twenty
[8:27] Speaker 1: twenty eight if I felt like I physically could, right,
[8:30] Speaker 1: And so I'm also really excited to see that she's
[8:33] Speaker 1: going for it, And you know, I think that it
[8:35] Speaker 1: also opens up possibilities for other people to think about,
[8:38] Speaker 1: like what kind of limiting beliefs do I have about
[8:40] Speaker 1: myself that I might also need to push myself past.
[8:43] Speaker 1: Because Allison is going for this thing, right, whether she
[8:46] Speaker 1: is successful in making the team or not, I think
[8:49] Speaker 1: there's a really cool idea that she is going for it.
[8:52] Speaker 1: And I think, you know, usually as you get older,
[8:55] Speaker 1: like there's an increase in confidence, right, so you said
[8:58] Speaker 1: aging sometimes like oh can I still do this? And
[9:02] Speaker 1: I think usually as you get older, you get more confident.
[9:04] Speaker 1: And so I'm sure that she is stepping into this
[9:06] Speaker 1: with a different kind of confidence and know how given
[9:10] Speaker 1: her previous experience with competing and being on Olympic teams.
[9:14] Speaker 1: So I'm really excited to see that she is going
[9:17] Speaker 1: for it and really cheering for her.
[9:19] Speaker 2: Yeah, especially with the twenty twenty eight Olympics being in
[9:22] Speaker 2: the US.
[9:23] Speaker 1: It's like this is exactly exactly. It's like why not
[9:27] Speaker 1: why not try?
[9:28] Speaker 2: Right?
[9:28] Speaker 1: Like what else? You know, Like she knows what it
[9:30] Speaker 1: takes to kind of be there. And I think the
[9:33] Speaker 1: pressure that sometimes exists with this, that could exist with
[9:37] Speaker 1: this for her could be am I as fast as
[9:39] Speaker 1: I used to be? You know, like what if I
[9:41] Speaker 1: can't cut it? Kind of thing. I'm sure she's having
[9:43] Speaker 1: those kinds of conversations. But again, you don't know unless
[9:46] Speaker 1: you try, And I think that that is well worth
[9:49] Speaker 1: it to actually just give it.
[9:50] Speaker 2: A try for sure, for sure, And that same vein
[9:54] Speaker 2: like why we talked a little bit about aging and
[9:58] Speaker 2: that increasing your confidence in some cases, but sometimes you
[10:01] Speaker 2: may feel, am I too old to be doing this?
[10:04] Speaker 2: For people who may come across those different emotions and feelings,
[10:08] Speaker 2: Why does it feel so emotionally vulnerable to start over
[10:12] Speaker 2: a return to a past passion after walking away from
[10:15] Speaker 2: it for so long?
[10:16] Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the vulnerability to get back into a
[10:20] Speaker 1: thing is really really significant, right, Because again, I think
[10:23] Speaker 1: it comes with a lot of questions of can I
[10:25] Speaker 1: still do this? Am I still good enough? What if
[10:28] Speaker 1: I fail? Right? And Like, nobody wants to sign up
[10:31] Speaker 1: to not do well at something necessarily, right, Like most
[10:34] Speaker 1: of us kind of want to be primed for success,
[10:36] Speaker 1: And so I think it just makes us feel really
[10:39] Speaker 1: vulnerable to kind of put ourselves in a position where
[10:41] Speaker 1: we may not be successful, especially if we've had a
[10:44] Speaker 1: track record of being really successful before. Right, And so
[10:48] Speaker 1: what does this now mean for like my legacy, my
[10:50] Speaker 1: story if I'm not as good now as I was then?
[10:54] Speaker 1: But again, I think the bigger story is always being
[10:57] Speaker 1: brave enough to put yourself out there and to trust
[11:00] Speaker 1: that your legacy will stand regardless of what may happen
[11:03] Speaker 1: in the future. I just think it's a really powerful
[11:06] Speaker 1: lesson in never being too late, for going after the
[11:08] Speaker 1: things that feel important to you.
[11:11] Speaker 2: No, absolutely, I totally agree. I'm very excited to see
[11:14] Speaker 2: her return. I know she's gonna I'm calling it in
[11:16] Speaker 2: and she's gonna make it to the Olympics, So I
[11:19] Speaker 2: would love.
[11:19] Speaker 1: To see that more from our conversation after the break.
[11:27] Speaker 2: And then for our last topic, if you didn't hear
[11:30] Speaker 2: over the last few days, there's been news of a
[11:33] Speaker 2: deadly outbreak of hantavirus that has been circulating. So it
[11:38] Speaker 2: started on a cruise ship and while as of the
[11:41] Speaker 2: time we're recording this, it's been reported that risk to
[11:44] Speaker 2: the public is very low. I think there was one
[11:47] Speaker 2: US resident on the ship and he has been transported
[11:51] Speaker 2: back to the US, but he is fully in quarantine
[11:53] Speaker 2: and being monitored and all that type of stuff. It
[11:56] Speaker 2: still feels very, very familiar to what we saw back
[11:59] Speaker 2: into when coronavirus outbreak started, So I think this kind
[12:05] Speaker 2: of just feels like deja vu all over again. It
[12:07] Speaker 2: really just started a lot of conversations of what do
[12:10] Speaker 2: we do when the world just never feels like it's
[12:12] Speaker 2: really going to stabilize and so I'm interested from your perspective, like,
[12:16] Speaker 2: how do you think the twenty twenty pandemic change people's
[12:19] Speaker 2: nervous systems and sense of safety long term? So I
[12:22] Speaker 2: feel like a lot of people are immediately kind of
[12:24] Speaker 2: reverting back to like we've seen this before kind of thing.
[12:28] Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know that we have ever recovered honestly
[12:32] Speaker 1: post twenty twenty and all of what happened with the
[12:35] Speaker 1: COVID pandemic. And you know, usually when there is like
[12:38] Speaker 1: an emergency situation, there is like the situation the alarms
[12:44] Speaker 1: go off, your body responds, your mind responds, and then
[12:47] Speaker 1: there is like an all clear to let you know
[12:50] Speaker 1: that you can reset and go back to you know,
[12:52] Speaker 1: normal resting right, Like, so your blood pressure resumes, your
[12:55] Speaker 1: heart rate decreases, like all of your functions get back online.
[13:00] Speaker 1: And what I feel like has happened since twenty twenty
[13:03] Speaker 1: is that we never really got back to like resting
[13:06] Speaker 1: police right. And it feels like there was all of
[13:09] Speaker 1: these kind of starts and stops with the pandemic in
[13:11] Speaker 1: terms of like information coming out, and then the political
[13:15] Speaker 1: landscape was a mess, and I mean it was just
[13:17] Speaker 1: so much going on, and I think it became really
[13:19] Speaker 1: difficult to figure out, like how do I keep myself safe?
[13:23] Speaker 1: And I also think that wasn't helped by the destruction
[13:26] Speaker 1: of public safety and public health information, right, Like you know,
[13:30] Speaker 1: the CDC and like the government niation. All of those
[13:34] Speaker 1: places we would look to for like solid information and
[13:37] Speaker 1: like credible public health information all of a sudden became
[13:41] Speaker 1: questionable because of the politics, right, And so I think
[13:44] Speaker 1: that that has also made it so we don't really
[13:48] Speaker 1: know like where to actually get credible health information, you know.
[13:51] Speaker 1: I've also been reading that all the people who had
[13:55] Speaker 1: been employed by the CDC who would have been responsible
[13:59] Speaker 1: for the US's response to something like this, have been fired, right,
[14:03] Speaker 1: And so I think that that doesn't help us to
[14:06] Speaker 1: think about, Okay, is this something that I should be
[14:09] Speaker 1: worried about, or is this something that only impacts me
[14:12] Speaker 1: about was on the cruise ship, Like I feel like
[14:14] Speaker 1: all of that is still up in the air, which
[14:16] Speaker 1: also always feels very concerning, And so I think that
[14:19] Speaker 1: does not help us to kind of have our nervous
[14:21] Speaker 1: system rested because we don't actually know if this is
[14:24] Speaker 1: a credible threat or not for sure.
[14:27] Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think that like thinking back to the
[14:31] Speaker 2: twenty twenty pandemic. That's really how it started to where
[14:34] Speaker 2: it was like this is obviously a lot of people
[14:37] Speaker 2: lost their lives from COVID, but we didn't really know
[14:39] Speaker 2: how to decipher some of that information, and then things
[14:42] Speaker 2: were coming out in piecemeal. It's like you can go outside,
[14:45] Speaker 2: never mind, you can't, you have to wear a masks
[14:47] Speaker 2: you never mind, you don't like that kind of thing.
[14:50] Speaker 2: So I think, like for the next question, like, how
[14:53] Speaker 2: can people maintain emotional grounding during these periods of collective
[14:58] Speaker 2: fear where it feels like you don't, I don't really
[15:00] Speaker 2: know what's going on, But at the same time, life
[15:03] Speaker 2: kind of has to keep moving.
[15:05] Speaker 1: Yeah. So one of the things, and y'all have definitely
[15:07] Speaker 1: heard me talk about this before, is being mindful of
[15:11] Speaker 1: how much you're engaging with the news, both traditional news
[15:14] Speaker 1: and social media, because we know that, like the algorithm
[15:18] Speaker 1: is primed to make you afraid, right, you know, we
[15:21] Speaker 1: know that sometimes bad actors will step in and realize like, oh,
[15:25] Speaker 1: I can monetize people's fear about this thing and not
[15:28] Speaker 1: actually be having accurate information, And so do be careful
[15:33] Speaker 1: of where you're getting your news related to this virus
[15:36] Speaker 1: from is it a credible source? And even if it
[15:39] Speaker 1: is a credible source, do you need to be checking
[15:41] Speaker 1: it every hour? Right? Because that often will just heighten
[15:44] Speaker 1: our sense of anxiety and doesn't It will sometimes keep
[15:47] Speaker 1: you kind of stuck in terms of a plan, and
[15:50] Speaker 1: so you're spending a lot of time just reading information
[15:52] Speaker 1: and consuming information as opposed to, Okay, here's my plan
[15:56] Speaker 1: or should something happen, here's where I can get credible
[15:59] Speaker 1: information as always, like black women are my narth store,
[16:03] Speaker 1: and so even during the COVID pandemic, I was kind
[16:06] Speaker 1: of looking at like this panel of black women epidemiologists
[16:10] Speaker 1: and public health people as the people I could go
[16:12] Speaker 1: to for credible information. And so doctor Tatanji, who is
[16:17] Speaker 1: actually somebody who joined us on the podcast, but it
[16:20] Speaker 1: might have been a podcast episode, but it might have
[16:21] Speaker 1: been a Facebook live, but very early on in the pandemic,
[16:24] Speaker 1: she was somebody who I spoke with about, Okay, is
[16:28] Speaker 1: this a concern we should have a conversation around the
[16:33] Speaker 1: vaccine right when, of course people have questions about the vaccine.
[16:36] Speaker 1: So doctor Tatanji is a board certified infectious disease and
[16:41] Speaker 1: internal medicine physician, so she is an MD in that
[16:44] Speaker 1: and she also has a PhD in virology, so she
[16:48] Speaker 1: has been very active on threads and we will include
[16:51] Speaker 1: her information in the show notes. So she is somebody
[16:53] Speaker 1: who I am looking to for my information around should
[16:56] Speaker 1: I be concerned about this, like what's going on? And
[17:00] Speaker 1: I trust that information coming from her. And you know,
[17:03] Speaker 1: she is somebody who does not proclaim to have all
[17:05] Speaker 1: the answers, but like this is her lane, and so
[17:08] Speaker 1: I trust that she has information. Is also sharing really
[17:11] Speaker 1: good resources, and so I think again finding those sources
[17:15] Speaker 1: and those practitioners who this is their thing, following them
[17:19] Speaker 1: but also not following them too closely so that you're
[17:21] Speaker 1: getting minute to minute updates unless the situation changes and
[17:25] Speaker 1: we need to be there, I think can go a
[17:27] Speaker 1: really long way in helping you to be grounded. Also
[17:30] Speaker 1: continuing to make sure you have physical activity, make sure
[17:33] Speaker 1: that you are connecting with your support system, like all
[17:36] Speaker 1: of the things we talked about in COVID. And again
[17:38] Speaker 1: this is not raised to the level of the COVID concern,
[17:41] Speaker 1: but I understand of course why people are anxious and
[17:44] Speaker 1: are we getting to that place. All of the things
[17:47] Speaker 1: that you know that you needed to do to kind
[17:48] Speaker 1: of keep yourself grounded, I think could also be helpful
[17:51] Speaker 1: in this situation.
[17:53] Speaker 2: No, I totally agree. I feel like there was a
[17:55] Speaker 2: lot that we could learn at least from the twenty
[17:57] Speaker 2: twenty pandemic and just how we managed to then versus
[18:01] Speaker 2: even like internally, how it is that we go against
[18:04] Speaker 2: these types of announcements moving forward exactly.
[18:07] Speaker 1: Thank you for those questions and those topics, Riya. I
[18:10] Speaker 1: always appreciate hearing what's on people's minds right now. As
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[18:18] Speaker 1: news that you want to hear my thoughts on, if
[18:20] Speaker 1: I have any, we would love to hear that. You
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