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Jul 10 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Visiting the USA from South Korea and let me ask you WHERE ARE YOUR MASKS? Holy moly. Death wish nation.
This Tweet struck a chord. If you are interested in conversations with pandemic experts from around the world please check out my #COVIDCalls project. Covid-calls.com
Hello to new followers--I hope you will check out the #COVIDCalls archive--501 episodes of pandemic conversation with everyone from epidemiologists to poets to nurses to sanitation workers. A few of my favorite episodes, starting with @PCH_SF 6.18.2020
covid-calls.com/episode/covid-…
Here's a performance and discussion with taiko drum master Marco Lienhard, talking about early pandemic days in NYC and making music in the midst of the disaster 6.24.2020.
covid-calls.com/episode/covidc…
On 12.22.2020 I talked about the first year of the pandemic w/the amazing science journalist @edyong209--it was an honor to speak with him, he is the chronicler of these times.
pscp.tv/w/1BdxYYbrVRyx…
This one meant a lot to me--a live performance by the incomparable @johngorka--don't miss his performance of "Hold On."
You can check out the entire #COVIDCalls digital archive (in progress)--501 episodes with audio, video, and transcripts. Some of it already feels so distant . . . but it's still our world even if we choose to ignore it. /end
covid-calls.com

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How To Protect Your Population from Disaster, a brief narrative . . .
I live in South Korea. Last night at 9:50pm we got a text from my son's elementary school. A COVID case had been reported--one of the students had tested positive.
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3. Today my son is at home--the school pivoted to online instruction--as he (and the other kids in affected classes) await test results later today.
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This headline is disgusting. The story focuses on poll numbers & the unemployment rate to say a strategy of COVID denialism worked in FL. In fact, 32,597 people have died in FL, & the piece doesn't even break stats down by age/race. @alexjgoldstein
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Mar 19, 2021
Anti-Before-COVID-Nostalgia announcement: Americans love to mark time by disasters without stopping long (if at all) to ask “why did that terrible thing happen anyway?”
2. In fact if you count war as a disaster—which I definitely do—most of the US history timeline is just demarcating one disaster from another. You might think we’d be better at investigation, forensics, historical thinking.
3. I’m thinking about time and disaster a lot because the will-to-closure on COVID is strong. And it’s heartbreaking. The “Before COVID” is how we got here.
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Mar 19, 2021
Chip Roy embodies the American culture of disaster denialism--deeply rooted in racism and the rejection of history. He is the poster boy of a disaster nihilism that damages the possibility for disaster justice.
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Mar 18, 2021
The injustice & violence suffered by Asian Americans in the pandemic is a major theme of #COVIDCalls. Here are some episodes that might serve as an explainer, & will introduce you to some brilliant researchers/activists. Starting w/@vgshaw & @_sujanee
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2. Episode #167 covers ANTI-CHINESE STIGMA IN THE PANDEMIC outside the USA w/@NjokiMwarumba & @JackRozdilsky

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Aug 13, 2020
At what point in the 1918 pandemic or WWII did people say “we won’t be going back to normal”? I’m fascinated by that moment-when the disaster becomes indecipherable from daily life. We are in COVID life now, even more once the schools reopen-then-close. Few surprises left now.
2. All of my grandparents talked about the depression and the war as if it was still a sort of daily reality to the ends of their lives. Of course they did-it was not only the trauma of doing without and constant fear. That time reordered their lives entirely.
3. I grew up in the reality of their disasters. The policies, the values, the memories. The trumpet that hung on my grandfather’s wall that he played in bands during the war. The lives they lived before that time could only ever be seen through the prism of that time of disaster.
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