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🗓️ 29 March 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm Jake Silverstein. I'm the editor-in-chief of The New York Times magazine. |
0:04.0 | And for a couple weeks now, we've been producing the magazine fully remotely. |
0:10.0 | You know, we're figuring out a way through it. |
0:13.0 | And part of what I think we're all learning is necessary as an office. |
0:19.0 | As a group of colleagues, we're just much more involved in the realities of each other's domestic lives than we ever were before. |
0:30.0 | We sort of see them happening in the background of our video calls when we're having meetings. |
0:36.0 | We're starting to get used to certain people popping in. |
0:40.0 | Some people's kids pop in for technical support on some of the video calls known again. |
0:46.0 | And we're developing relationships with kids and spouses and stuff like that. |
0:52.0 | So around about the same time that we left the office and started working remotely, |
0:59.0 | one of the two deputy editors of the magazine is Jessica Lustig. |
1:03.0 | And Jessica's husband began having flu-like symptoms around that time. |
1:08.0 | And they quickly got worse to the point that he was tested for COVID-19 and tested positive. |
1:18.0 | One of the things that Jessica started to say to us after about a week of living with this experience was that she felt she needed to write about it. |
1:25.0 | Of course, when she said, I want to write something about this, I said, are you sure? |
1:28.0 | Just seems like a lot. And she said to me, I just feel like it's in me. |
1:33.0 | I feel like I have something that I need to tell people. |
1:36.0 | To me, what's so unusual or complicated about this situation that we find ourselves in is that because we're all isolated from each other, |
1:47.0 | we often don't really know how this thing looks when you get it. |
1:51.0 | And so I think Jessica realized that she was experiencing something that had clarified for her certain realities about COVID-19 |
2:01.0 | and about what this outbreak is going to be like for many, many, many people that hadn't yet reached the rest of us. |
2:08.0 | So here's Jessica's story read by Julia Whalen. |
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