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Today, Explained

Well, this is awkward

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The coronavirus is complicating our relationships with family, friends, and strangers. But it’s also making us better at life?? Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's today explained I'm Sean Ramis for him and on today's show we're going to talk about how

0:12.8

awkward COVID-19 could be. Not the virus but the social stuff because we're

0:18.0

inching towards month six in the United States with no end inside and some states are super open.

0:24.8

Some states are half open. It's summer. People are out there recklessly doing stuff. Other people

0:31.6

are still very scared and it's creating a lot of tension. So this one woman in the span of a

0:36.9

single week she attended a wedding in Pennsylvania on the West Virginia border and a funeral in Cleveland,

0:43.0

Ohio. The wedding they didn't really want to go. It was the side of the family that you know they kind

0:48.4

of knew if they were sort of anti-maskers on Facebook and stuff but there was already kind of a

0:53.2

tense family dynamic going on so they were like if we don't go to this wedding it's going to be

0:56.6

seen as a dig. We just have to go. We have to suck it up. We're going to wear masks whatever.

1:02.5

So they arrive at the wedding and it's even worse than they thought that it was going to be even

1:06.9

after all the Facebook posts. The wedding is indoors. It's 150 people. There are one of like three

1:13.6

people that are wearing masks. The food is served buffet style. The only bathrooms are portapoddies.

1:18.6

There is no super hand sanitizer there. The coronavirus is not mentioned at all. People are dancing,

1:24.3

people are hugging and there's elderly people there. You know it's like people are serious at risk

1:28.4

but because they were in a part of the country that at that point was not really affected too much

1:33.4

they assumed that they were invincible.

1:41.2

During the same week they attended funeral and what's funny is that there was actually 150 people

1:47.0

at the funeral but they arrived and the viewing was drive by. So the family of the deceased was

1:54.8

standing outside while everyone kind of drove through and said their condolences from a distance.

2:01.6

The funeral was the next day at a very large church. Everyone was social distancing and it was

2:07.3

just really respectful. It was a Catholic mass and the priests didn't put communion in their

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