Hey everyone. Welcome to Being Well. I'm Forrest Hansen. I'm joined as

usual by Dr Rick Hansen. So Dad, how are you doing today? I'm good. I'm good

for us and you. I'm surviving. I mean I think that we're all in the phase of this epidemic where we've crossed the the Rubicon for many of us from kind of cautious optimism,

which is where I was, I would say a couple weeks ago,

to wow, this is gonna get really bad

and we could be in this for a minute.

So that's where I'm at psycho-emotionally. So speaking of which, we're going to be spending some time today talking about the interpersonal

costs of the epidemic that's been going on and some of the knock-on effects and kind of maybe unexpected

consequences that this thing has put all of us through.

Yeah. So there are many effects of the epidemic that have been kind of clear and obvious from the human costs to the economic cost to whatever else.

And then there have been some impacts that have been a little bit more subtle.

And one of those has been kind of being trapped inside with a lot of people that sometimes

you don't want to be trapped sideways.

Is this a personal topic?

I mean, it's influenced by my own experience.

So we've been cohabitating since this thing began and it's been really interesting. I think in general we've survived it pretty well.

But the truth is that you don't pick your family.

And there are many people out there.

We have really I think a pretty wonderful familial relationship, but there are a lot of people out there we have really I think a pretty wonderful familial relationship but there

are a lot of people out there right now who I'm thinking of like small family units three to five

people banging into each other all day wow that, that gets really grading after a while even if you love the people.

Then in addition to that, there's the opposite cost.

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