Can I Have a Drink?

Social Distance

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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People are losing their jobs and hope. But opening businesses back up would endanger lives. Jim and Katherine call her brother, a bartender sheltering in place, for some perspective. And staff writer Derek Thompson joins to discuss what needs to happen in Washington to make sure people stay afloat. Recorded 3pm, Tuesday, March 24, 2020. Sam's recipe for a mocktail Paloma: mix 3 parts grapefruit juice, 1 part lime juice, and 1 part simple syrup. Top with Topo Chico and add salt to taste. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jim, for anyone who is listening to this for the first time, will you say who you are?
0:06.0	My name is Jim Hamblin. I'm a writer at the Atlantic and I'm a preventive medicine public health physician and that's all I am.
0:16.8	That's all.
0:17.8	There's nothing else to you.
0:18.8	No, well there's some dimensionality in terms of artistic ability when it comes to various musical proclivities.
0:27.2	But for another time.
0:31.0	For another time.
0:31.9	We can edit out the laughter I think.
0:34.0	I'm Catherine. I'm a podcast producer and I am one dimensional.
0:40.0	Oh no, no, no, no.
0:42.0	All right, anyway, it seems like New York is really becoming a problem.
0:47.0	What's the situation in New York right now?
0:49.0	The U.S. is on pace to have the most confirmed cases in the world and that is being led by far by New York State and by far by New York City.
0:59.0	And partly that's because we're testing a lot, but also we've just started practicing real
1:04.4	social distancing within the last week we can have and not fully shut down at
1:10.8	all that's what's going on and it's getting real serious.
1:15.0	So we're in this stage where we're entering government requested or enforced social
1:19.8	distancing measures and already there are starting to be questions
1:24.7	about whether this is too extreme,
1:28.9	you know, that this is gonna totally damage the economy.
1:32.0	And, you know, most restaurants and bars are already closed
1:36.7	certainly all of them in New York. Well it is definitely going to be economically
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