Fleeing to the suburbs doesn't help you necessarily. We don't have evidence of that.

Busting urban legends about life in the urban jungle during a pandemic and beyond.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield.

On the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, we looked at how the movement changed the world for all of us, like the ubiquitous curb cut.

If you're somebody who pushes a stroller through the built environment, if you're someone walking a bike, you participate in those politics, too.

And even as campus life shrivels and universities ponder their futures, some students will thrive in the

academic environment shaped by the virus. Is it too strong to say that online school saved your life?

I mean, I was suicidal at the time because I had failed and felt that I had no other options.

So maybe it's not too strong to literally say it saved my life.

Yeah, I would say it did for sure.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

Brooke Gladstone is out this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

Hey, it's over.

2020, the year from hell is behind us.

So let's begin grateful for some of the nightmare left behind, yet cognizant of what

polite people call the challenges ahead, because vaccine or no vaccine, the impact of the devastation wrought in the last

10 months will continue to be felt for years to come, particularly by those left behind in the wake of

300,000-plus dead of COVID-19 and by a generation of children who missed a vital year of school and by all the business owners

who could not in the end keep the lights on.

The pandemic touched most everyone, OTM included.

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