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How This Could End

Social Distance

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Staff writer Ed Yong describes three possibilities of how this will play out — and reminds us not to panic. Recorded 11am, March 26, 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Jim, hey Catherine. Another day. Yes. The days keep happening. Are you less tired today?

0:07.0

Yeah I took a nap in the middle of the day yesterday. Hmm.

0:11.0

Must be nice. But everything just keeps happening is the problem. You catch up on your sleep and then you wake up and then more things have happened.

0:20.0

Yeah. Today we found out that more than 3 million people have filed for unemployment this week.

0:27.0

New Orleans is seeming like it's becoming one of the epicenters of this and I think there's concern about the whole

0:37.8

south what what might happen there and how prepared the south is anyway so those are the things that are happening right now, unfortunately.

0:46.8

And we have on our staff Ed Young, who's just published a huge piece about what will happen and

0:52.2

how this will go. And so he could inform us a bit maybe if he's

0:58.2

willing to talk with us. Well yeah we asked him. Oh yeah he's literally.

1:02.4

Hello? On the line, yeah, he is. Hello?

1:03.0

He's waiting on the line, isn't he?

1:04.0

Hey!

1:05.0

Hey!

1:06.0

Yes, I totally forgot that.

1:07.0

I am muted.

1:08.0

Hello.

1:09.0

Did you just think we were just ignoring you?

1:12.0

I know. Yeah, they seem like, they seem really chilled.

1:15.4

I feel, like I went full British and just sort of sat there for about a minute great.

1:20.0

I, um, okay. How are you doing it? I'm alright. So Ed you have just just yesterday

1:28.7

published a piece why don't you tell us the title? It's called how the pandemic will end. So this is something I mean we've

1:36.8

been certainly getting a lot of questions and I have questions how will this end but can

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