When Can I Take Off My Mask?

Social Distance

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The pandemic has led to “hygiene theater,” which gives a false sense of security. As vaccination continues, people should feel able to abandon many precautions—while continuing to focus on what really matters. How do we thread the needle between being too cautious and too cavalier? Staff writer Derek Thompson joins to help us understand public messaging. Support this show and all of The Atlantic’s journalism by becoming a subscriber at theatlantic.com/supportus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello?
0:06.0	Hi Jim, it's Mayve.
0:08.0	Hi Jim, it's Mayve. Hi Mayve.
0:10.0	Time to do our podcast.
0:12.0	Oh my, yet again. Yet again. This is social distance.
0:17.0	564 social distance, the Atlantic's podcast about the pandemic.
0:22.8	I am Jim Hamblen, I'm a doctor and staff writer at the Atlantic.
0:27.1	And I am May Higgins, I'm Jim's aunt. You don't know what happened yesterday.
0:33.7	Remember what we said last time about telling the truth?
0:38.6	Jim, my sister had a baby last night and she named him Jim.
0:43.0	What? Yes.
0:45.0	Wow!
0:46.0	I know.
0:48.0	That's so kind.
0:49.0	That's even more generous of you than the hen.
0:52.0	The Jim... generous of you than the hen. The gyms are really adding off around the Higgins
0:56.5	household so. Is the middle name Hamblin or is it? The coincidence is his dad's name is James and his
1:08.1	granddad's name is James but obviously it's it's you. I'm not one to go looking for patterns
1:17.2	digging in the weeds here. I just go with my instinct and that seems to be like that's my name so it must have something to do with me.
1:25.0	Yeah I think so.
1:26.0	Great well congrats.
1:28.0	I hope the family is doing okay.
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