Best of 2024: On NPR's "Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again"

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🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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As this year comes to a close, we’re releasing a Best of 2024 series—by no means objective, and making plenty of tough decisions to leave a few favorites out. We’ll be back early in the new year with new episodes. Original description: Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss a recent piece in NPR, “Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again,” which presents avoiding covid both as the product of unreasonable “anxiety” and as something immunocompromised people should let go of lest their loved ones consider abandoning them. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/npr-covid This episode was originally released on March 18, 2024. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to the death panel.
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0:59.1	I'm Beatrice Soutler-Boltan, and today I am joined by two of my co-hosts, Artie Verkant.
1:03.8	Hello.
1:04.3	And Jules Gil Peterson.
1:05.8	Hello.
1:06.6	And the three of us today are going to be doing a close read on a recent piece that was published
1:13.3	March 11th by NPR called Wrestling with My Husband's Fear of Getting COVID Again.
1:19.6	Now, a lot of people rightly got very mad when this piece came out.
1:24.3	It was thoroughly critiqued online calling the piece out for its pathologization
1:29.3	of those who still take layered COVID protection seriously. The way that, for example,
1:35.4	the author put her husband's desire for COVID precautions stemming from his being immunocompromised
1:41.5	on the same level is her desire to go out to eat in restaurants.
1:45.5	There's a lot there.
1:46.9	It's a very short piece.
1:48.6	And there are a couple reasons why we wanted to talk about it today, especially.
1:52.8	Yes, all of what I just mentioned.
1:54.3	But also, there's a huge point that this piece is trying to make about so-called risk, risk assessments,
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