We share our thoughts from the midst of the onset of America’s experience with the coronavirus pandemic.

We recorded this on Sun., Mar. 15, 2020. This past week saw the most dramatic shift in the public’s awareness and concern over the covid-19 virus.

This episode includes…

• Toast’s rant against people’s choice of words when criticizing “the government” when they’re actually criticizing this administration, and this administration’s use of our government.

• how we’ve noticed our anxiety manifesting in…

• compulsive checking of news and social media

• our inner mental life ranging from placid to panic, when thinking of and planning for the future

• the new vocabulary and strategy we all know now: about not being vectors, so as to flatten the curve, by practicing social distancing… a sentence that probably wouldn’t have made sense to most of us just one week ago

• realization of having taken mundane things for granted

• our dependence and interdependence on each other as individuals, a society, and as a species

• and more

Let’s keep each other safe:

• Stay informed and live by safe health and hygiene practices

• Both on the personal individual level (eg: wash your hands)

• And on the societal level (eg: “social distancing”)