New York Times podcast, The Daily, released an episode entitled “Who’s Organizing the Lockdown Protests?” on April 22. A few participating in lockdown protests in states such as Ohio and Michigan are interviewed. It is clear that some people are protesting so that they can return to work and make money to survive, while others … Read more
The New York Times podcast, The Daily, released a podcast on April 15th entitled “24 Hours Inside a Brooklyn Hospital”. The reporter had been observing The Brooklyn Hospital center in NYC for a few weeks as the pandemic really took off. Dr.Josh Rosenberg, the attending physician in the ICU at the hospital is the primary … Read more
This piece, entitled “What Happens When a Joke Is Followed by Silence” discusses how comedy performances in the time of the pandemic necessitate a normalization of the once-dreaded audience silence following a joke. It details the alteration of the rules of comedy as the laughter of audiences (measurement tool of jokes success) disappears across muted … Read more
The main theme of the episode is numbers in the wake of the pandemic. More explicitly, this podcast episode entitled “Dispatch 1: Numbers”, explores how we can better understand the numbers we are interacting with daily, and how can we process them in a more digestible way.
This article from The Onion, entitled: “‘The Onion’ Glossary To Coronavirus Pandemic Terms”, was published on Wednesday April 2nd. Though most of the information is comedic, it highlights the importance of being able to decipher the terms introduced in the media to communities world-wide during this pandemic. If we are told updates and information in … Read more
