Yes, I am way out of order on the days and way behind.. I'm going to post as best as I can and then carry on forward. So some of these will be "Under Construction" while I tidy up the prose. And not all will have pictures. Or complete thoughts. Or complete sentences.
Two podcasts to consider.
Social Distance
Two writers from the
Atlantic magazine team up to discuss the Covid Pandemic via phone calls in NYC in real time starting with the shelter in place orders issued in mid-March. I came to the podcast five weeks late, and began listening with the first episode posted on March 13, 2020. I find it both fascinating and, of course, already dated. How could it not be? Things have been moving so fast. Just tracking the advice about masks over the past month and a half will make your head spin.
One of the podcasters, Dr James Hamblin, is a medical doctor who reports on medical topics; the other, Katherine Wells, is podcast producer. This is an informed yet friendly conversation between friends that covers all the questions we have. I think the podcast highlights the growing realizations we experienced as the enormity of the pandemic dawned on all of us. While Dr Hamblin certainly understood it from the beginning (he had already been writing about the virus), his partner in the podcast, Katherine Wells, suffers from the bends, in a way, as she had just returned from an engrossing work assignment that had her not quite tuned into the new realities. We get to travel with her as she taps into experts to get a handle on the unknown.
I find the sound information and clear view of the issues re-assuring, even if somewhat terrifying at times - and with the rapid sequence of events, the podcast almost has the feel of a historical-doucment already.
The Way We Live Now - Hosted and created by the well-known writer Dani Shapiro. this is a fascinating day-by-day release of interviews with folks as they endure the pandemic and how they find ways to cope. Began April 14.
