How To 'Human' Again: Advice For The Long Transition To Post-Pandemic Life
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🗓️ 14 May 2021
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Dr. Lucy McBride, a primary care physician, and public theologian Ekemini Uwan have both written about this transitional moment Americans are living in and have some advice.
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| 0:25.9 | A few weeks ago, Amanda Barbies' family got together to celebrate her mother's 60th birthday |
| 0:30.8 | in North Carolina. |
| 0:32.0 | It was the first time everyone had really been back together since the pandemic. |
| 0:35.2 | My family was two-thirds of the way vaccinated, a couple family members had not passed the |
| 0:39.7 | two-week mark for post-vaccination. |
| 0:42.9 | So they gathered outside, socially distant, and Amanda, who's an art teacher, brought |
| 0:47.8 | something along. |
| 0:48.8 | I showed up with this cardboard fan. |
| 0:50.6 | A cardboard fan. |
| 0:52.3 | I really tried to decorate it and make it look really as celebratory as was humanly possible. |
| 0:57.6 | I even danced over towards my mother with it like, look at our birthday fan! |
| 1:01.8 | The fan was for the birthday cake, so her mother could wave out the candles. |
| 1:07.2 | There would be no blowing on the cake, not after the pandemic. |
| 1:10.4 | Everyone just looked befuddled, and then of course a couple family members had almost |
| 1:14.5 | that dad joke grown that-oh, okay. |
| 1:18.7 | Okay, god. |
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