Welcome to the Conversations of Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris. Today we're going to be talking a little bit about the coronavirus. I know you probably didn't know that, couldn't guess that, but it's obviously being talked about everywhere and and so I wasn't going to do

a podcast this week because I'm very busy with some personal things but I thought you

know what the world is really weird right now and especially for those who really like the podcast.

I don't want to make it weirder by skipping a week.

I mean I usually put out a podcast every week so we're going to at least have one thing that's

normal this week and that will be this podcast.

So I'm going to be talking kind of fast.

So if you usually listen at double speed and we want to slow it down for the monologue.

After the monologue, we're going to talk to Dr. Bob as we

affectionately call him at Duke University Hospital and we don't reveal

his name because well he's a fan of this

people in those kind of communities where they have influence and they have

let's just say, politically correct constraints that they have to live under.

They probably don't want people to know that they listen to this, but Dr Bob is, I'll let him talk more about what his expertise is, but he's definitely qualified to talk about this pandemic.

And so we're going to ask him some medical questions, mostly.

And we're going to end with some silver linings here but I want to talk a little bit about about this whole thing just

Start off kind of bird's eye view here. I probably feel like a lot of you like and I just kind of mentioned it. The world just doesn't feel right this week. It just feels it feels different in a bad way. We're used to going to church. We're not going to church. Church looks different if we did

We go to the store. We can't find milk or eggs or toilet paper, it's crowded.

We go out in public and no one's dying on the street.

There's no emergency that we can see around us generally speaking but at the same time things

feel empty and and so it's having a change happened that quickly from the normal habits of our life it can

I mean we're sitting at home now a lot of us and we have time now I don't I have no time

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