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Don't ask if you don't care

#Omicron is threatening the joyful reunions we've all been planning, adding to the usual pressures of this season. This is an anxious time: please look after yourselves and others. John Amaechi pleaded we Give A Damn in 2021 (   • Give a damn in 2021  ). That advice still holds. Transcript: Hello there. It's freezing out here. Literally there's ice on the terrace and I nearly broke something just getting to this spot. There are Christmas lights all over the place. It is well and truly holiday season. I, like many of you, am looking forward to seeing loved ones in person. I was talking to my sister the other day and she reminded me that we haven't seen each other in person, actually touched, in two years. Nearly, I think. I'm looking forward to seeing my nieces. I am worried that I won't get to see them, depending on the development of Omicron and Covid more broadly. I'm also increasingly aware that this time of year is not so hopeful for some. There are people, either through the stress of planning the perfect holiday, especially one where you're reconnecting after a long period of time, is overwhelming. For some of us it's that this time of year is difficult, we remember people we've lost perhaps over the last 19 or so months, or longer. I tell everybody that one of the things that we should've learnt from this pandemic is that we have to give a damn about each other. So I just want to ask you favour for this holiday season. One, maybe two. The first thing is: be vigilant. You're going to notice colleagues at work, friends, who over the course of this period will not quite be the same. And I'm not talking about 'a bad day', I'm talking about you'll see a sequence of days or you'll notice that people who've been in touch with you all of a sudden disappear. Notice, notice this. And the second favour is: care. At APS Intelligence we have this mantra: don't ask if you don't care. Don't fill an awkward empty space with that ridiculous question: how are you? knowing full well that what you expect is one word - good, fine and nothing else. And you see it sometimes when people ask that question and somebody looks like they might say something else, there's even a cautionary glare: don't you dare impose on my emotional literacy. Well this holiday season I'm asking you: don't ask if you don't care. And I'm begging you: care. This is a great time of year for lots of people and for some it's miserable, but it would take one missive from the government to tell us that once again we can't see each other, for something hopeful to become something again desperate. And in those moments, and indeed regardless of the circumstances, we have to give a damn about each other. Be vigilant. Look out for each other. Don't ask if you don't care. Care.