> It is wicked hard to convey the destruction, loss. Especially to policy makers. The problem is that data needs to be transformed into a story, in order to co

> It is wicked hard to convey the destruction, loss. Especially to policy makers. The problem is that data needs to be transformed into a story, in order to communicate anything meaningful. But as soon as you turn data into a story, you introduce some degree of bias, which inevitably becomes politicized. The only way around this is there's no way around this. We have to accept the reality that the agenda hawks (on both sides) will continue to polarize issues. Continue to use the tools and data available to us to tell the best stories we can, while understanding that no one story is the truth. All the while, we have to avoid succumbing to the deep polarization being used against us to divide and conquer. We are all in this together.