Millennials Are Buying COVID Cars

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Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Katherine takes a road trip. Jim talks to staff writer Robinson Meyer about COVID cars—and how a new wave of car ownership could change cities for better, or worse. Also: N95s! Surgical masks! Gaiters! What face coverings actually work? (And when should you wear them?) Support this show and all of The Atlantic’s journalism by becoming a subscriber at www.theatlantic.com/supportus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello? This is Jim.
0:07.0	This is Jim.
0:09.0	Hi, this is Catherine.
0:11.0	Catherine, you sound so different.
0:13.0	Do I sound like sort of happy and you know at peace?
0:17.0	Hmm. There is a certain buoyancy to your demeanor. Domenor.
0:23.0	Have you had a good morning with the Burt?
0:26.0	Well, I'm in a car.
0:27.0	Oh.
0:28.0	I'm driving.
0:29.0	I've left my burn friend in New York behind.
0:31.0	You're not driving, driving at the moment. I'm in a vehicle that someone else is driving. Okay. Yeah. Can I say who you are? I'm with I'm with you remember when we talk to my friend karen yes of course he's driving the famous author yeah the famous author car in mahajan is is driving this car and Francesca Mari another famous author is in the backseat.
0:56.2	We're driving in California.
0:58.2	Huh, it's like an old-timey on the road literary Ken Keezy and Jack Kerouac and Hunter Thompson out there on the road.
1:09.7	Yeah, just with fewer psychedelics unfortunately.
1:14.0	Oh, well, you know at least someone in the car has had COVID, so that's good for you, probably.
1:22.0	Yeah, I would say that COIN is maybe a little more that's good for you probably.
1:22.6	Yeah, I would say that Karen is maybe a little more comfortable
1:25.6	with public spaces than I, given his probable immunity.
1:31.4	So did you just feel like you needed a change of scenery?
1:35.0	The isolation has gotten to me and my sister's in California so I'm going to visit her.
1:42.0	But I'm driving there.
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