Hey Jim.

Hello and welcome to Social Distance.

This is Social Distance, our podcast.

I am Jim, I am a doctor doctor and I am joined as always by Catherine.

Why are you acting so weird? Because we got that note where we were supposed to

you know introduce the podcast at the top as people do and I was trying to do it.

I like your shock-chock voice better, frankly.

Hello and welcome to Social Distance.

Drive Time Radio with Catherine and I am, as always Jim.

Maybe you should do this.

You are always Jim. Okay so this is a this is a show from the Atlantic where the two of us who are journalists at the Atlantic talk about pandemic questions very informal we just talked to other, we call other people with questions we have, and we hope that it is useful to the listeners. So that's the deal with this show. My name is Catherine and Jim is, as we just heard always very Jim so I wanted to revisit something that we've talked

about before that I just keep not understanding which is one of the things that's

strange about reading the news during this time is you have parallel sort of news items coming at you.

You might in one day read, oh, this was the biggest day for online shopping ever.

And like, you know, everyone bought a ton of crap and is going to get it delivered to their house.

You know, what an interesting economic story.

And then on the next page, you also read that

an outrageous number of kids don't have enough to eat right now.

And that dissonance has always of course been a part of this country like that that always exists.

But it's so striking right now that it's hard to ignore and it feels like there are two I mean we've we've talked about this before but they're kind of two pandemics going on

One is people who have kept their jobs or can work remotely or are comfortable in whatever way, you know, like us, it's annoying and difficult but we talk about you know our

dogs or whatever and there is another experience that people are having which is

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