Hi everyone, welcome to Gadget Lab.

I am Michael Collory, a senior editor here at Wired.

Lauren Good is out this week, so we've got a bit of a different show for you.

I'm joined by Wired Service Editor Alan Henry and Wired Senior Writer Adrian So. So first, Alan, welcome to the show.

Hey, thanks for having me. Of course, your debut appearance. It's great to have you. And hello,

Adrian, welcome back, a multiple time returning guest star on this show. Yay. Hey, Mike. Yeah, my kid is out today, but I'm here without her.

Well, today we're going to be talking about the various things that are helping us, the three of us,

get through the current global health crisis. Right now it's the first week of July.

We are several months into the coronavirus pandemic,

with over 10 million cases worldwide and over 500,000 deaths.

And whether we're directly affected or not,

the crisis is filled all of our lives with grief, fear, and uncertainty.

But we also know one thing that does a better job of protecting

us than anything else, and that's isolation. So even though some cities and states are

gradually reopening, most of us are going to stay cooped up for a while longer. We wanted to

use this episode to pass along some of the things that we've been using to make sheltering in place

more bearable. If you're a regular listener

of the show, you know that we always do a segment at the end where we each make a recommendation,

and you can just think of this episode as one big recommendation show, just like the COVID-19

shelter in place survival edition. We hope that some of the things that we recommend are things

that you can make use of as well.

It's the whole reason we're doing this. So we're going to divide the show into three segments.

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