How Limiting Protests Will Spread the Virus

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Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis has sparked large protests and marches, giving rise to a new set of concerns about how to safely and effectively exist. Jim and Katherine share the latest on how to protest as safely as possible. Ultimately, safety has less to do with the protesters than those overseeing them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello?
0:05.0	Hi, Catherine.
0:07.0	Did you get in by 8 PM last night?
0:10.0	Yeah, weird curfews. But you know, and I was feeling like it's weird because it's
0:16.6	the summer night and it's nice out and I aired my grievances, you know, as I was instructed to do by Jim Fallows like therapeutically.
0:25.8	And people said, well, in Santa Monica, it's been 2 PM and in DC it's 7 PM.
0:32.2	So... Yeah, New York is 8 PM. What? Where did you air your grievances?
0:38.0	Twitter.com.
0:40.0	Mm. The the grievance airing site.
0:44.0	No, I just made an observation that as a public health directive,
0:49.0	this is kind of productive right now.
0:51.0	Right, right.
0:52.0	We actually, so we've actually gotten a question from a listener Jen about
0:57.0	the protests. She wrote in and asked, could you talk about how safe it is health-wise to take
1:01.8	part in the protests.
1:05.3	I mean we've been sort of talking for months about how most important thing is
1:09.8	just stay away from other people.
1:12.1	Well, yeah, do so safely.
1:14.4	I don't know, have you gone and witnessed
1:16.5	any of the protests, of which we as journalists can't take part,
1:20.1	but if you see.
1:21.0	We cannot take part, but I've seen a little bit yeah
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