The Nature of Nurture

Covid, Your Government, and You

Episode Summary

How much anxiety is the “right amount” of anxiety to have about covid? In this episode your host Leslie talks to two psychologists and an epidemiologist about the polarization of our response to covid in the United States, and how we maybe could have handled all of this a little bit better on both sides of the aisle.

Episode Notes

Connect With The Contributors:

Bart Magee: https://www.accessinst.org/ Twitter @bartmagee @accessInstSF Insta @bartmagee @accessinstsf

Blythe Adamson: blytheadamson.com Twitter: @DrBlytheAdamson Instagram: @DrBlytheAdamson

Luis Perez: https://www.ifrsf.org/ https://www.drluisperez.com/

Links From This Episode:

• FAA Traffic by the Numbers: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/by_the_numbers/
• Forbes article about global air travel: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarathiessen/2020/04/01/40-percent-less-flights-worlwide-air-travel-restrictions/?sh=914607e60790
• Washington Post - 96% of covid cases have been transmitted indoors: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/13/covid-outside-safety/
• El Pais article about how aerosols function indoors: https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-28/a-room-a-bar-and-a-class-how-the-coronavirus-is-spread-through-the-air.html
• Covid impacts the latino population at three times the rate of white people: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-california/california-latinos-contracting-covid-19-at-three-times-rate-of-whites-idUSKCN24T2UI
• How to Hug During a Pandemic (NYT): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/well/family/coronavirus-pandemic-hug-mask.html