Hi, Jim. Hi, Ma'am. Good to talk to you. It's good to talk to you. It's good to talk to you.

It's good to talk to you. Yeah. How's your dad doing post vaccination?

Totally fine and in good news my mom got hers today.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah, so they're on to 63 year olds in Ireland.

Wow, wonderful, congratulations. Thank you. This is Social Distance the

Atlantic's podcast about the pandemic. I'm Jim Hamblin I'm a doctor and

staff writer at the Atlantic. Yeah and I'm Maeve Higgins and I'm a writer and a comedian.

And you are now part of a partially vaccinated household so congratulations. Yes, congratulations.

Yes, thank you.

So my parents have been lording it over us and they've been vaccinated.

Meanwhile, in my niece and nephew school, they had a COVIDVID scare so they all had to get tested and I was

remembering what you said Jim you know about like pediatricians and like kids nurses being the

nicest and like yeah because that's why they do it because they're so nice and when my

niece was getting her test done she was she's only eight and she was really worried. She's like a worrier.

And it was like the back of the nose test.

But the guy said to her,

OK, Levine, here I go hunting for snots.

And she started laughing and like it made the whole thing really fun and she had like a little story to tell her school friends, you know, and I was like, that is the coolest thing. Yeah. Did he get any snuts?

It's a snnot on there.

But like, also as a comedian I was like, okay, it's easy to make an 8 year old laugh, you know, like I was a little bit

jealous.

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