What We Got Wrong About Covid
Pantsuit Politics
Sarah & Beth
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
We look back at covid and share our conversation with Jennifer Senior about long covid and her September cover story for The Atlantic: "The Ones We Sent Away."
TOPICS DISCUSSED
- Fire Storm in Maui
- What We Got Wrong About Covid
- Long Covid with Jennifer Senior
- Outside of Politics: The Ones We Sent Away with Jennifer Senior
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| 0:00.0 | This is Sarah Stewart Holland, and this is Beth Silverz, thank you for joining us for |
| 0:13.3 | our Pantsuit Politics. |
| 0:34.3 | Thank you so much for joining us at Pantsuit Politics, where we take a different approach |
| 0:37.6 | to the news. |
| 0:38.6 | Today, we're doing that in a big way. |
| 0:40.8 | More than three years after we all learned what COVID-19 was and experienced varying levels |
| 0:45.9 | of trauma and stress and change throughout lockdowns and loss. |
| 0:51.8 | Life is mostly back to normal for lots of people, but we have been shaped and reshaped by |
| 0:57.0 | our experiences through the pandemic and wanted to take today to look back on the last |
| 1:00.4 | few years and identify some of the things we got wrong about COVID both personally and |
| 1:05.2 | culturally. |
| 1:06.2 | We've also invited Jennifer Senior to return to our show. |
| 1:09.2 | We love talking with Jennifer, and we thought it was important to ask her to share about |
| 1:13.7 | her experience with Long COVID, which is still a very present part of her life. |
| 1:18.5 | Long COVID is a medical reality we're still coming to terms with, and it is impacting |
| 1:22.4 | thousands of people in a variety of ways. |
| 1:24.9 | And we know when we say life is back to normal for lots of people, it's lots of people, |
| 1:29.2 | but not all people. |
| 1:30.2 | And we wanted to really highlight that experience today as well. |
| 1:33.4 | And outside of politics, we invited Jennifer to stick around and talk with us about her |
| 1:37.3 | recent cover story in the Atlantic. |
| 1:39.6 | And let me politely advise you to go get some tissues for that conversation. |
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