First hour: Discussing quarantine fatigue
Second hour: Local residents express their concerns about exercising in public as African American men
Quarantine fatigue is real, says Julia Marcus of the Harvard Medical School. Writing for The Atlantic, she argues that shaming people for disobeying guidelines is a bad idea. She writes, "Public-health experts have known for decades that an abstinence-only message doesn’t work for sex. It doesn’t work for substance use, either. Likewise, asking Americans to abstain from nearly all in-person social contact will not hold the coronavirus at bay—at least not forever." So what should we do about it? How can we settle into a routine that is sustainable until a vaccine is on the horizon? And how sick are you of staying home? Our guests:
- Julia Marcus, Ph.D., MPH, professor of population medicine at Harvard Medical School
- Dr. Eric Caine, M.D., former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center
Authorities in Georgia say there were no burglaries, no reported thefts in the two months before the stalking and killing of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery in February. Two white men, a father and son, tracked and then killed Arbery in the residential street of their mostly white neighborhood. Our guests discuss what it's like to be an African American man just wanting to go for a jog in public or to exercise without provoking fear. We also discuss what it might take to build a society in which the Arbery story is the last of such killings.
- Anthony Hall, dean at Vertus Charter High School for Young Men, and executive director of BOOKBAGS Express, a non-profit that addresses disparities in the black and brown community
- Kemani Howard, Rochester resident
- Justin Morris, community activist
