And so we wait. Here in New York, we wait in our homes for information about what to do next,

for a sign that this fever is breaking, for bad news about people we love. In other parts of the country I suspect people are

waiting to see what's going to happen in their towns. Will it be as bad? Will we be

spared? Will I get my job back?

There are so so many unanswerable questions and given that so many of us are stuck in our homes,

all most of us can do is wait it out. So in this episode we're going to play something like a

waiting game. It's this thing one of our reporters does when she's trying to get to know

people, like no know them. And I figure a lot of our relationships are going to be deepened and may be challenged by all of this stressful waiting around together.

I know I will take any help I can get.

I'm Ky right, and this is the United States and anxiety. A couple episodes ago you heard from our reporter Ginny Kossas who was rushing back to

her community in Chicago. Do you want to know how fast I'm driving right now? How fast are you going? I'm just kidding I can't tell you. It's too fast to say on air.

Slow down. Slow down. Slow down.

Jenny was drawn back to Chicago by the relationships she has there.

Those were the people she wanted to be with as she waits.

And all this waiting has been making me think about this list of questions.

Or it's a poem, actually, and it's called 45 questions to ask while waiting.

45 questions to ask while waiting.

All right, that's a lot of questions.

Yes, it's quite a lot of questions and it was introduced to me last summer. It was like a beautiful

Chicago evening. I was out by the lake. I was having beers with some friends, new friends, old friends, and somebody pulled up this poem and we all just started asking each other these questions, these 45 questions, around the circle, and it was so intimate

and so straight to the heart of the matter.

And after that, I pulled up this list of questions all the time in any social situation

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