#1384 Virtual Virus (Part One)

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🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week in the first of a two part program we hear from Jefferson Hour listeners from around the country about how the coronavirus is affecting them and their communities. Included are reports from Clay's daughter Catherine who finds herself somewhat stranded in Britain and Pat Brodowski, the head gardener at Monticello.

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0:00.0	Good Day Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners and welcome to this week's
0:04.8	podcast and this week's podcast well it's its voices and emails from
0:11.2	listeners we ask for reactions to the pandemic, what's going on in your community,
0:18.9	what you're doing, how it's affecting your life. And the one thing that I took away from it from you, Clay,
0:25.2	was this optimistic view that now is a chance for us
0:30.1	to wallow in self-improvement, if that's an okay way to put it.
0:34.4	Yes, I haven't, I think I speak for millions of people when I say I have an enforced
0:40.2	sabbatical at home. I'm going to look on it as a sabbatical. I have some very severe
0:44.7	economic concerns. Don't get me wrong. I'm going to have to reinvent my work to a certain
0:50.8	degree. And by the way, if you love the Jefferson Hour and you have
0:54.0	the wherewithal to help us this would be a great time because we don't take any
0:58.5	personal money from it but the program needs to continue it's a voice of reason at a very critical moment in American life
1:06.2	but let me let me go back to the idea of the sabbatical. I'm home. There's nowhere I can go. I'm not getting on a plane for weeks and maybe
1:16.6	months. It could be a year.
1:19.6	You're unemployed. You're not completely unemployed, but your entire performance schedule
1:24.9	and lecture series they're all done until your hope is and I thought this was
1:30.4	really important.
1:31.4	The Lewis car trip was on.
1:32.4	People should not despair of that they can drive to the I thought this was really important. The Lewis and Clark trip was on.
1:33.0	People should not despair of that. They can drive to the to the Great Falls if they need to.
1:36.9	That trip is in the safest place in the world.
1:38.6	And also you talk you talk in the program and there's details in there and people can go to
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