All at once vs. chronic by Seth Godin applied to stroke

 Stroke is chronic and has totally been overtaken by dementia/Alzheimers. Stroke needs to get to the tipping point  where every piece of research is breathlessly reported on. But that won't occur with current stroke leadership who in some la-la land think nothing needs to be done for stroke, it's already solved.

The whole problem is the stroke world thinks nothing needs to be done as proven by this meme on World Stroke Day a few years ago. Whomever approved that is a complete blithering idiot.

What a lying piece of shit

All at once vs. chronic by Seth Godin applied to stroke 

The emergency wins every time.

The newspaper, social media, dinner time conversation, the principal’s office, sportscasters, the weather, the boardroom–the conversation is almost always about the emergency of the moment. The thing that’s happening all at once.

We have a volunteer fire department in town, but we don’t often have a volunteer corps dedicated to long-term culture change. Even typing that out seems odd.

But the chronic problems define our future, and the persistent changes over time brought us to where we are. Evolution of species is a chronic process. And most of us die from chronic illnesses.

What would it take for us to spend even a fraction of our time and energy and attention on the chronic instead of the urgent? Drip by drip.