
Episode 4 - "Pint-Sized Mentality"
Jiya Pradeep Tilwani
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You should see the face of this dude from England that I speak to periodically; he helps me with some of our marketing endeavors.</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: 1.6rem;">Unshaven</span></li> <li><span style="color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: 1.6rem;">Gaunt</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Disheveled</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rich didn’t always look like that, though. Like all of his fellow countrymen, he has endured a three-month lockdown, with little more than a grocery store open, let alone a pub. (No wonder he looks so poorly.)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m Chris Machut, CEO at Netarus, manufacturer of the HoistCam system. And, comparatively, I look like Brad Pitt.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Ok, I get that a lot.)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Seriously, not only do I feel sorry for anyone enduring draconian anti-Covid measures right now, but I’m also here to make a wider point about lockdowns and the value of sacrifice.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many scientists would agree on the merits of hard lockdown (the virus inescapably spreads between us) but surely they would also demand clear results. That’s the whole point of science, isn’t it? We research, measure, record, and act.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many governments and authorities seem to have lost sight of that recently. They’ve become obsessed with lockdowns at the expense of reality. Surely there has to be some balance that considers the societal and economic costs of hard lockdown. What about mental health, livelihoods, loneliness, etc.? Have Rich’s leaders in England and th