How COVID Changed Everything - Part 2 - Adapting
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
LAist Studios & USC Annenberg's School of Journalism Present: How COVID Changed Everything
A series where graduate students in the USC Annenberg School of Journalism examine the many ways—both dramatic and nuanced—that the pandemic has changed life in ways we are only now beginning to understand.
Part 2: Adapting
Change is a given, but COVID-19 truly forced the hand of change. In this episode we explore the ways people have found to adapt and rethink how we accept change. In this episode: the fate of a beloved Hollywood record store, the reflections of an American Hockey League player, the impact of COVID-19 on a sickle cell patient, and the challenges of pandemic-related gentrification in Mexico City.
Content Warning: This series contains sensitive subject matter. Listener discretion is advised.
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| 0:32.6 | From LAS Studios and USC Annenberg Media, this is in perfect paradise, how COVID changed everything. |
| 0:41.7 | A series by USC grad students who come from all over the world. I'm Kelly McEvers. |
| 0:49.9 | Even though the World Health Organization says COVID-19 is no longer a global emergency, people |
| 0:57.3 | are still dealing with a lot of loss. Loss of lives, of course, and also of ways of life. |
| 1:07.1 | So in this episode, we're talking about adapting. We will mourn the things that were lost or might soon be lost |
| 1:14.1 | and see how those losses are forcing us to recalibrate how we do things. |
| 1:20.1 | We'll start with reporter Grace Murray, |
| 1:22.7 | who, the day she got her first COVID vaccine, |
| 1:26.3 | grabbed her mom and went to what she says is the greatest record store of all time, a place that has changed, and maybe not for the better. |
| 1:35.4 | Amoeba Records here in Los Angeles. |
| 1:39.5 | In the early days of the pandemic, the original Amoeba closed its doors, and we were worried it would |
| 1:44.9 | never open again. You see, a few years ago, Amiba announced that they had sold the building to a |
| 1:50.3 | developer, and they were scheduled to vacate the building in 2020. Sure enough, the pandemic |
| 1:56.0 | raged on, and what was only supposed to be a temporary closure became permanent as lockdowns |
| 2:00.7 | continued. |
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