A Coronavirus Care Package: Care For Yourself, Others and Still Have Fun

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

It has been a week, y'all. We're bringing you some tips on how to care for yourself, an inspiring story about how one neighbor his helping another, and a tour through the creative world of digital gatherings. Sit back, take a breath and hang with us. Links relevant to this episode: Sheltering in Place: What You Need to Know How to File for Unemployment in California During the Coronavirus Pandemic Your Coronavirus Questions, Answered Berkeley Mutual Aid Art classes on Instagram Live with @wendymac One Salon SF Urban Adamah Alison Faith Levy’s Youtube The Feelings Parade Facebook Page Dance parties with @mkik808 Featuring KQED associate arts and culture editor, Nastia Voynovskaya. Produced by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Asal Ehsanipour, Jessica Placzek and Katie McMurran. Additional support from Julie Caine, Paul Lancour, Rob Speight, Kyana Moghadam, Suzie Racho, Vinnee Tong and Ethan Lindsey.

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0:00.0	From K-Q-Q-E-D.
0:03.0	What a week it has been.
0:12.0	What a week it has been. I don't want to rehash it for you because I know you were there and we are all living it.
0:18.7	There's just so much going on right now with all this coronavirus stuff and most of it is really hard to feel optimistic about.
0:25.8	I've been working with the Bay Curious team along with my journalist colleagues at KQED to answer your questions about coronavirus. You guys sent in more than 1500 of them and that's
0:36.5	kept us pretty busy. If you're looking for an explainer on stuff like what you can and can't do
0:42.1	while sheltering in place or what resources are available to you if you've lost income, head to KQED.org.
0:50.0	We're hustling to keep that website updated with all the things that you need to know, but it's all changing so fast.
0:55.6	It's pretty hard to put it into a podcast.
0:58.2	So here today we're going to focus on something a little bit different. In these dark times we're seeing amazing displays of
1:06.2	resilience. People are connecting in ways they probably never dreamed that they
1:10.9	would. And Sweet P grewa grew at an incredible rate and the two became
1:16.4	the best of friends. A virtual story time for kids hosted by Amy Adams.
1:22.3	Let's just take a moment to just take a deep breath,
1:26.0	be silent, be still.
1:29.0	That's my dad actually, leading a prayer for his congregation, using Facebook live for the first time.
1:35.9	We're seeing neighbors helping neighbors, friends reinventing their relationships in the digital space.
1:41.7	Today on Bay Curious, we've made you an audio care package.
1:45.2	We'll get some tips on how to care for ourselves, how to care for others, and we'll get a
1:50.6	healthy dose of digital inspiration on how we can make the most of this pretty strange time.
1:57.0	I'm Olivia Allen Price. Support for Bay Curious is brought to you by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, still family-owned, operated and argued over.
2:10.0	Explore their brews wherever fine beverages are sold,
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