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Chasing Life

Quarantine Fatigue

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

For many of us, it's been months since we started sheltering-in-place. And it's exhausting. Now, as states begin to reopen and social distancing rules are relaxed, how do we decide what is safe to do and what isn't? And what about those of us who haven't had the luxury of staying at home? CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaks to experts about quarantine fatigue and how we should move forward with our daily lives. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

First up, if you're tired of being forced to stay home, cue the song by Michael Jackson,

0:07.0

you are not alone.

0:08.2

You wouldn't know a pandemic was going on by looking at the beach today.

0:12.1

That's right, Casinos are back open and the joy intensified among the crowd by the

0:16.6

second as we approached midnight.

0:26.5

For many of us it's been months since we started sheltering in place.

0:31.0

Our homes have become our gyms, our offices, and our classrooms.

0:36.4

It's exhausting.

0:37.7

I feel it too.

0:39.2

Days seem to blur together.

0:40.9

My kids keep asking me when are they going to get to see their friends again.

0:44.8

We're all craving some measure of normalcy.

0:47.9

Now as states are reopening and we're preparing to gradually step out of our homes, how do

0:52.6

we decide what is safe to do and what isn't?

0:55.7

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent, and this is coronavirus,

1:01.3

tact versus fiction.

1:08.4

The advice we've been hearing whether we like it or not has been to stay home, unless

1:12.8

absolutely necessary to leave.

1:15.3

But all that time inside is creating a sense of restlessness and a desire to start socializing

1:20.6

again with friends and family.

1:22.8

Julia Marcus, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School calls this quarantine fatigue.

1:30.6

I think it's just the general sense that we cannot stay indoors forever.

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