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Bay Curious

How COVID Could Change the Bay Area For All of Us

Bay Curious

KQED

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

A year into the coronavirus pandemic there's hope on the horizon. It's too soon to know the lasting impacts on the Bay Area, but we asked experts in mental health, transportation and education to try and predict what we might expect in our day-to-day lives as we slowly emerge from this crisis. Additional Reading: How Will A Year of Pandemic Learning Impact Bay Area Schools Long Term? As Battle Over Reopening San Francisco Schools Turns Ugly, Equity Emerges as Fault Line It Was Hard Already, Then It Got Worse: Resources For Coping Right Now We want to hear YOUR story for an upcoming episode: How has your life changed under COVID-19? Record yourself on your phone and send it to us: baycurious@kqed.org Or leave us a voicemail at 415-553-3334 Bay Curious is made by Katrina Schwartz, Suzie Racho and Katie McMurran. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Paul Lancour, Carly Severn, Ethan Lindsey, Vinnee Tong, and Don Clyde. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

From K-QED. We're coming up on the one-year anniversary of the Bay Area's first shelter and place order.

0:09.0

Last March was scary, but certain aspects felt kind of novel. Now we have a new normal, and some changes could

0:17.2

be the norm for a long time coming. Like, will we always carry hand sanitizer in our bags?

0:23.2

Maybe book club will permanently meet on Zoom.

0:26.4

And will roller skating forever be a thing?

0:29.6

And it's such a small habits.

0:31.3

This year has brought massive shifts too. Today on the show

0:35.6

we're taking a few minutes to peer into a crystal ball and try to predict how this

0:40.3

pandemic will shape our lives into the future.

0:43.6

And in an upcoming episode, we want to hear stories

0:45.9

from you, our listeners.

0:48.0

I'm Katrina Schwartz, and this is Bay Curius. Support for Bay Curius is brought to you by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, still

1:01.2

family owned, operated, and argued over.

1:04.3

Explore their brews wherever fine beverages are sold,

1:07.4

and taste how trailblazing runs in the family.

1:10.6

Visit Sierra Nevada.com to find your new favorite beer today.

1:15.0

To get at how our lives may be permanently affected by the past year,

1:22.0

I wanted to hear from experts on the unavoidable

1:24.5

parts of life that most of us experienced directly.

1:28.5

So we're going to hear from someone who specializes in mental health and family relationships, someone focused on education, and a couple

1:36.1

folks thinking about what our commutes will look like once this is all over.

1:40.5

First we're going to hear from Narga Suhari Dillon. She's the executive director of

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