How Long Will It Last?
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🗓️ 20 March 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz are joined by Dr. Amesh Adalja to discuss efforts to address the pandemic, journalist Neil Irwin on whether the U.S. economy can be saved, and author Jon Mooallem on his new book This is Chance! about communities uniting in a crisis.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment David challenges Emily and John to a surprise topic that invites them to examine their quirky private mental routines.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Slate Podcast listeners. I'm here to remind you to take the Slate Survey. It will be open through April 1st and your answers help us make a better slate. It'll only take a few minutes. You can find it at slate.com slash survey. |
| 0:26.1 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest from March 19th, 2020. |
| 0:28.4 | How Long Will It Last Edition? |
| 0:32.0 | I'm David Plotz of my house. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm in my daughter's bedroom. |
| 0:40.4 | I'm joined by Emily Bazelon of Yale, New York Times Magazine, from her home in New Haven. |
| 0:41.1 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:42.3 | Hello, David. |
| 0:48.0 | I feel like that is a dangerous title you chose because we're going to be asking that question for a long time, perhaps. |
| 0:51.8 | But I am also ready to ask that question, so I approve of it. |
| 0:53.3 | Asked but not answered. |
| 1:12.0 | John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes joins us from his house in Manhattan, Gotham, New York City. Hello, John. Hello, David. Hello, Emily. It's nice to see everybody. I'm going to just focus on the positive. We usually record one of us at least is in, usually it's me actually, I can't see you. |
| 1:12.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.7 | And now I can see you all. I can even see Jocelyn. I'm going to, I'm going to say that's a good thing. |
| 1:25.8 | That is, that's the only good thing. The only good thing at all. On today's GabFest, the most unsettling week of our lives, a whole new way of living. |
| 1:30.3 | We'll talk about what we can expect over the next weeks and months of the pandemic with Dr. Amesh Adalja, |
| 1:35.9 | who's a scholar at Johns Hopkins, an expert on pandemic preparedness, emerging infectious diseases and biosecurity, |
| 1:42.7 | so he knows what he's talking about. |
| 1:45.3 | Then can the economy be saved from the depression, the recession, the catastrophe that's |
| 1:52.2 | coming, can the federal government do enough to stop the disaster? |
| 1:57.3 | Neil Irwin of the New York Times will be here to talk to us about that. |
| 2:00.4 | And then we'll talk to the author of a new book about one of the worst natural disasters in American history and how people were covered from it. I'm really looking forward to that segment. The book has a lot to tell us about where we are now. And the author is John Mualin. And the author is John Mualin. Also. And the name of the book is? We'll talk. We'll get to that. |
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