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Social Distance

This is as Real as It Gets

Social Distance

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Stephen Thomas, Chief of the Infectious Disease Division at SUNY Upstate Medical University, just got his first COVID-19 cases. He discusses how hospitals should prepare for the coming surge of patients. And he shares a Mark Twain quote he's had on his mind: “courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” Recorded 3pm, March 17, 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello?

0:05.0

Hello?

0:07.0

Hey, can you hear me?

0:09.0

I can hear you, can you hear me?

0:11.0

Mm-hmm.

0:12.0

How are you, uh, how are you holding up? I'm fine. I got real overwhelmed and stressed yesterday.

0:19.1

Yeah. And then I took a little break and I feel better today. How are you? You know, I do know.

0:30.0

Things are things could go a lot of directions but I was thinking about you know I'm hearing you know the

0:39.4

social distancing takes a real toll on people and it's a real sacrifice and there's this sort of thing

0:46.7

of like just you should be glad because a lot of people are suffering and dying and really

0:50.2

sick but I think that sort of policing of who's suffering more in these situations

0:57.6

is really not helpful and that everyone who's making different levels of sacrifice should hopefully feel that

1:07.6

their right to, you know, lament their own isolation and take it seriously and everything is

1:17.4

yeah there's always someone suffering more than more than you but it doesn't mean that you can't express your concerns.

1:25.0

So hopefully, yeah.

1:27.0

I think that's a really nice point and I'm grateful for you making it because I have just felt guilty or like not entitled to really any

1:36.3

amount of stress given that I'm fine anyway even if this even if this podcast in our

1:42.1

discussions are very skewed toward people who are,

1:46.3

you know, likely to remain personally healthy, it's going to affect us all in different ways.

1:56.8

But we need to do a better job of, you know, trying to understand everybody else's challenges in helping them, I think.

2:02.1

I'm moralizing too much. Sorry sure I'm morelizing too much sorry I'm you know yeah we

2:06.2

don't come to you for that no no no we come we want information for me it was

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