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What Will the Summer Be Like?

Social Distance

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Staff writer Ed Yong braces Jim and Katherine for a very different summer than most of us are used to. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Jim, I feel like I haven't genuinely asked you how you're doing in a while.

0:08.0

I'm good. I'm kind of in the weeds on the immune system right now trying to figure out what's going on.

0:16.8

It's so beautiful outside though that's really invigorating.

0:20.4

I know I'm feeling really good today just because the sun is right does it make you want to go outside?

0:29.3

Walking outside is the highlight of my day.

0:33.0

As someone on Twitter compared to like being a dog and I feel that way like you're just spent like

0:38.0

waiting for going for a walk.

0:40.0

I'm one of those like elderly dogs who's pretty much content to stay inside and nap.

0:45.6

Yeah, incontinent.

0:48.3

That's private Jim.

0:49.1

I told you that.

0:49.7

I'm sorry.

0:51.1

I'm so bad at this physician confidentiality stuff.

0:55.0

Um.

0:57.0

Okay, so the kind of news that I wanted to ask you about is the US is

1:05.8

defunding the WHO. That's a big thing this week. Right. A lot of what the

1:10.6

World Health Organization does is infectious disease and basic hygiene and sanitation stuff that is like really, really high yield in terms of helping prevent serious outbreaks and you know the US we just spent two trillion

1:26.2

dollars on a bailout package because of this global health emergency and we contribute

1:32.0

about five hundred million dollars a year to the WHO.

1:36.1

It sounds like a lot but it's 0.025% as much.

1:40.8

I mean there's lots to criticize about the WHO's response and there's lots of

1:45.1

open questions but they were still they declared a global health emergency and urged countries

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