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Should I Wear A Mask?

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The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Dr. James Hamblin answers basic questions about the coronavirus (and how to avoid it). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey Jim. Hi, Catherine. It's our anniversary. Oh, of the first time you called me. It's been three weeks.

0:15.8

Three weeks? Are you serious?

0:18.0

Mm-hmm. Wow, yeah, a very long three weeks.

0:21.0

One, two, three, yeah, three weeks ago I called you and I wanted to know what coronavirus was.

0:28.6

Right.

0:29.7

You were not alone in not taking this seriously enough from the beginning.

0:35.2

This was not taking it seriously enough.

0:37.4

Well, yeah, not knowing how seriously there were very mixed messages.

0:41.4

So you were hearing,

0:42.6

the risk is low, the risk is low,

0:44.1

the risk is low.

0:45.4

Yeah, I think in the...

0:47.3

Yeah.

0:48.7

Well, here's the deal.

0:49.8

It's been three weeks.

0:51.3

I've learned a lot, and I don't like what I've learned.

0:55.8

Well yeah no one likes it. It's really it's tragic.

0:59.2

Usually I enjoy learning not this time. What do you do with information that you don't like?

1:05.0

Internalize it?

1:06.0

Turn it inward somehow?

1:08.0

Right.

1:09.0

Anyway, I have a question for you today, Jim.

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