What Will the Summer Be like?
Social Distance- The Atlantic, Episode 29
This podcast is about how our upcoming summer will look like “after” the corona virus pandemic has slowed down. Ed Yong, a writer staff for the podcast, explains and answers the questions from the hosts about Covid19 and summer. His theories are there is a possibility to reopen for summer but it won’t be “normal” and there will be restrictions to the things we are most likely to be looking forward to enjoy. How can we contain the virus while trying to get to out to the world. Katherine, one of the hosts, seems excited and looking forward to summer as her birthday in July. She asks very specific questions which explicitly shows her hopes as the rest of the world. Jim, the other hosts, doesn’t talk as much but at the beginning of the podcast he mentions how he felt like a dog waiting to go on a walk. Ed Yong, guest and staff writer who have been studying infectious diseases for a while, has theories about how the summer will look like with Coronavirus. He has doubts about the summer. Even if outside world is reopened, there will be a lot of restrictions in place that we are totally forgetting about. He does believe that things won’t be back to normal but instead more enjoyable.
It was interesting what Jim said at the beginning of the podcast. I absolutely found interesting Ed Yong’s theories because so far he has been one of the realistic person when talking about the pandemic and summer. He responded each question honestly and clear which made sense to me and I understood what he said. A lot of people are looking forward to summer with the idea that it’s going to be like any other summer as before but being realistic it’s not. Something I sorted learned from this podcast was that we don’t appreciate little things such a walk. We always wait for something to happen or to be take away in order to see its value. Also, how one thing affect us all. I did know this before but never saw it coming from many other people around the world. Also, how much lack of common sense Trump and his government have as they stopped the funding of the WHO during this TIME.
The podcasts didn’t influence my views on the subject because I been very realistic about it but I did find that I shared the same views with other people. It’s not going back to normal and this summer not matter how fun we try to make it, it is going to be the same. The “normal” everyone seems to be talking about is what got us where we are now. People will appreciate everything more and enjoy more hopefully but there will be restrictions in place during summer and also fear. As Ed mentioned a lot of places we used to go and enjoy won’t be opening for the rest of the year, some even had to closed down permanently. I would absolutely recommend this podcast to my classmates because we need to be more realistic about the pandemic and be cautious. I know most of us are looking forward to have a good summer after being at home for months. I did like this podcast because it had an energetic atmosphere and it was interesting to listen to. It touched many topics and also didn’t have as much negativity about the topic as the news and the media.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/what-will-the-summer-be-like/610120/
Eliana, I happen to have listened to this podcast too. I agree that it was helpful to hear how Ed Yong answered that woman’s very concrete questions about what she may or may not be able to do by the time her birthday comes in July. It was a reminder that things aren’t just going to go back to “normal” any time soon.