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A Pandemic Podcast A Pandemic Podcast
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Welcome to A Pandemic Podcast, a space where we discuss the ongoing global pandemic. We will be joined by guests from a variety of backgrounds including education, engineering, information science, and more in round table discussions to bring greater understanding to current research, best practices, and community care. Want to get in touch? Contact us at panpodcast@outlook.com
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Season 2 Episode 1 - Pomp and Circumstance
Season 2, Episode 1
Pomp and Circumstance
In various places, hearings and committees are happening to further understand how the pandemic was (mis)handled. Cheryl, Chris, and Kay review New Brunswick’s ‘top doctor’ Jennifer Russell’s appearance at the Standing Committee on Public Accounts. What happened? And where do we go from here?
Resources mentioned:
PoPNB's piece on NB Chief Medical Officer of Health's AA History of Inadequacy and Abandonment
Watch the full webcast of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts' questioning of the NB Chief Medical Officer of Health
Linsey Marr on 60 Minutes
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Update - Delayed But Not Despaired
Chris provides a brief update on what we're working on and offers a perspective on the reasons to keep having difficult conversations.
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Episode 8 - Social Framing of Airborne Illness
How is western society organizing and perceiving an ongoing pandemic? Why have a plan when there supposedly is no problem? We talk about the societal construct of framing and how messages can be portrayed, warped, and slowly believed. There are some big ideas in this episode that help make sense of how so many people are turning away from the truth, while Cheryl, Chris, and Kay refuse to look away. They deconstruct what is happening and analyze what language is being used, and insightfully, what language is being excluded.
Resources mentioned:
PoPNB's piece on Manufacturing Apathy
CanCovid's How Language Shapes Change: Perspectives on the Most and Least Effective Communication Strategies and Tactics During the COVID‑19 Pandemic
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Episode 7 - Let Them Eat Covid
In April 2022 the New Brunswick's Child, Youth, and Seniors Advocate released a vindicating report on the requirements for safe conditions for children in public schools: Masks, accommodations, universal protections. None of these were implemented, as the report was advisory and not legally binding. Fast forward to January 2023 we see which group of people the world's billionaires believe should have universal protections- themselves, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Protections for me, but not for thee? Unacceptable. Everyone deserves to be Davos Safe.
Resources mentioned:
The full Report from the Child and Youth Advocate
PoPNB's Analysis of the Lamrock Report
RTI response detailing Russell's lies and biases
Lucky Tran/Amanda Hu Davos Safe thread on Twitter
Forbes on Davos Covid protections
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Episode 6 - Insight and Care
In this episode, recorded over the Family Day long weekend, we talk to members of three families about how they approach reducing risks to themselves and others, how they navigate those discussions within their families, what is working well for them, and what they’re concerned about. People who are curious about what steps other households are taking right now will enjoy listening to these reflections from residents of three provinces.
Guests are Chantal (10:47), Linda (34:41), and Matt (54:11), and they are parents of children from daycare age up to adults. Listen as they reflect with humour, joy, and frustration about the challenges facing families trying to reduce Covid-19 transmission in 2023.
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Episode 5 - Foundations of Failure Part 2
This is a two part series of a year in review where we look back to pandemic policies and the lifting of universal protections during the year of 2022. In Part 2, Cheryl, Chris, and Kay review the months of April through December: What happened and how was the groundwork set for the worst year of disease spread and death of COVID-19, and where are we left as we enter 2023? Our sympathies to the people living with post-COVID symptoms and our sincere condolences to the families who have lost loved ones during this time. Our hearts go out to you.
Resources mentioned:
Child and Youth Advocate report on masking in schools
RTI on justification for lifting protections (our commentary, full RTI response)
RTI on harms of masking (our commentary, full RTI response)
RTI on what the provinces knew about long covid (our commentary, full RTI response)
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Email the show at panpodcast@outlook.com
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