WE ARE DRIVING
A big thank you to anyone and everyone who contributed to Depresh Mode during our Max Fun Drive yesterday and all week.
Yesterday, of course, I volunteered to badly draw an animal or a very bad portrait for anyone who donated. And they were bad. One time I even got the name wrong.
Her name was Holly.
So TODAY from 4pm to 6pm central, I will offer NICKNAMES written in BAD CALLIGRAPHY. I think I’ve really found my lane of doing things poorly for the entertainment of others. That’s worrying but I’ll go with it.
Correlation between vaccination rates and children’s mental health
The pandemic has wreaked havoc on mental health all over the place but researchers are finding that children are generally doing better in places that vaccinate more.
The study, published April 27 in JAMA Psychiatry, found that stress surrounding the pandemic in the United States declined in children after the vaccinations were rolled out for adults in December 2020.
“Children who are living in states with higher vaccination rates may be less worried about the future of this pandemic,” said lead author Dr. Yunyu Xiao, assistant professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine. “Getting vaccinated may also affect the mental health of parents and the home environment that kids are living in.”
Social determinants of health that influenced children’s mental health during the pandemic include food insecurity, unemployment, disrupted access to health care, and having parents who were essential workers. “Many of these structural and social issues existed before the pandemic but were further exacerbated by it,” Dr. Xiao said.
Cut-out paper art
(via kottke)
Rudy Willingham carefully cuts around portraits and then finds places to hold them up. Look it’s Prince!
And Prince’s friend Big Bird!
Okay well now back to the drive
Need to keep it a bit short today. Thanks for understanding.
I urge you to go to Max Fun, select Depresh Mode, and give what you can. So I can keep making the show and this newsletter. I know I’m putting on the hard sell but the drive is the only time of year we do this.
Here are some of my favorite songs around the concept of drives or driving: