Quarantinology (UM, WHAT HAPPENS NOW?) with Various Ologists

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Lifted restrictions! Discarded masks! Vaxxing & relaxing! Parties. Variant confusion. FOMO while also dreading events. Worry about strangers. Grief for a cancelled year. WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE? We’ve got you covered. As infection rates go down and restrictions lift in the U.S., you may feel: relieved, overjoyed, nude without a mask, guilty about surviving, conflicted about gatherings, or mourning a loss. We gathered a small army of experts to chat about historical quarantines and recovery periods, vaccine rates, economic projections, the mental state of healthcare workers and the grief that can follow an historical event. Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley (of Gastropod) join to chat about researching their stellar new book “Until Proven Safe,” Jessica Malaty-Rivera updates us on vaccine rates and variants, Dr. Mike Natter checks in from New York and thanatologist Cole Imperi gives step-by-step instructions for taking care of your brain during transitions and “shadowlosses.” I hope this episode serves you well; I just really needed to make it.

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0:00.0	Oh hey, it's that friend who started their turn paper the night before it was due.
0:04.0	Ali Ward with a last minute, two ambitious, extra credit episode of allergies. What am I doing?
0:10.7	Why did I decide on a Sunday to make an episode with five different oligists to air one day later?
0:16.7	Am I okay? Not really. But also, yes, we're going to be okay, probably. That's why we made this
0:22.9	episode. We just damn needed it. But first, I need to say thank you to patrons at patreon.com-aligees.
0:29.7	That cost a dollar a month to join that club. Also, thanks if you have ever left a review for
0:34.2	the show. I have read it with my theory oftentimes, blurry eyes. And I pick a glistening just
0:40.7	burst one each week as proof, such as this one from Eileen who said, dear Ali dad, thanks for
0:47.2	accompanying me on my road trip from Seattle to California and back. And for making me gaffa
0:51.7	until I cry and also reflect on what makes me feel horny about life. Your kid Eileen Eileen,
0:57.8	happy to horny up about snails and condors and mud as your oddly paternal internet friend. That's
1:04.9	what I'm here for. Okay. Quarantineology. It's a word. Not shockingly, it has gained popularity in
1:13.6	the last like 16 months. So today is June 14th, 2021. I live in California. On June 15th, in a few
1:22.8	hours, the mask mandates are lifted. So what does this mean? What can we expect? What's going on?
1:29.0	How safer we is the pandemic over? That's not what the news says. Can I play croquet with my college
1:36.2	roommates on a lawn? Can I hug my uncle? Will I ever eat pudding from the same spoon as a stranger?
1:42.4	Again, I hope not. But I'm here. I'm here to help. I'm going to do that by letting people
1:47.3	smarter than me talk to you with their mouths. So in this episode, we're going to talk to married
1:52.6	history buffs, researchers and authors, Jeff Mayno and Nikola Twilly, who you also know as the
1:59.7	host of the incredible podcast, Gastropod. And these two are releasing a new book. It's called
2:05.6	until proven safe, the history and future of quarantine, which, side note, Mary Roach calls
2:13.6	flawlessly executed life goals to have Mary Roach say that about you. Oh, anyway, their book
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