COVID Chronicles

LOS ANGELES (April 30, 2020): Today we check in with Eleanor to discuss what it was like to be tested for Covid-19.

LOS ANGELES (April 22): Today we check back with Eleanor, and hear about her experience with unemployment...

NEW YORK CITY (APRIL 19): Today we check in with Jay, who reports on the effect the pandemic lockdown is having on him, both financially and emotionally.

TACOMA, WA. (April 18): Today we check in with Noelle, and ask how her family finances are doing as unemployment spikes.

PORTLAND, ORE. (April 16) Today your host wonders what the new "normal" will look like...

TOKYO--April 11: Today we talk to John, a Canadian expat who now works and lives as a permanent resident in Tokyo. He tells us what the situation looks like from the perspective of someone still commuting to work five days a week...

In this episode, we're turning things over to the kids. We hear letters they've written about what their lives are like in the time of COVID-19... and a high school senior, who's a classical pianist gives a concert for the neighborhood through his living room window.

BERLIN--April 9: Today we check back with Spencer in Berlin, a city that thrives on its social interactions, and is almost entirely locked down.

Work-From-Home haikus; and a conversation with a Los Angeles episcopal priest about how to cope in crisis, regardless of faith.

NEW YORK, April 4: Today we check back with Jay. Although his more uncomfortable symptoms have subsided, he has lost his sense of smell and taste...

PORTLAND, ORE.--April 4, 2020. Today we talk to Jane, owner of a small business making bespoke bow ties. Jane has closed her online shop and is instead using her skills to make protective face masks for friends, family, and caregivers in her community. This at a time when the CDC is recommending that all people wear a mask when going outside in public.

LOS ANGELES--April 2, 2020: Today we hear an update from Eleanor, 28 and living in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles. She talks about unemployment, paying the rent, and what she expects in the next cycle of bills.

Today, as the virus spreads and deaths in the U.S. approach 4,000, your host adds his observations and experiences.

TACOMA, WASHINGTON--MARCH 30Today we check back in with Noelle. She’s been waiting for over a week for the results of her Covid-19 test to come back...

BEAVERTON, ORE.--March 27, 2020Today we talk to Andee, a teacher in Beaverton, Oregon. She has some tips to offer parents who suddenly have their children home when they’d normally be in school, and wonders about the rest of this school year and how it will impact her students. NOTE: Cell towers all over the U.S. are overwhelmed. At times, the audio in this episode reflects that.

NEW ORLEANS--March 27, 2020: Today we talk to Tim, a respiratory therapist with years of experience in the ICU. He tells us what he’s seeing back at work in a New Orleans hospital, on a day when cases in the city reached one thousand. (In an effort to get this to you, there has been minimal editing.)

LONDON: MARCH 27, 2020: Today, the day the Prime Minister tested positive for the virus, we talk to Bill, a 65 year old ex pat American playwright who lives in London with his husband, and who is in lockdown in the city for the foreseeable future...

Episode 2: A photographer documents families as they social-distance outside their homes, and an engaged couple goes ahead with a wedding that had been postponed

NYC--March 25, 2020: Today we check in with Jay, who lives in Manhattan. Since we last spoke, Jay is showing symptoms.

BERLIN--March 24, 2020: We speak again with Spencer, an American living and working in Berlin. He updates us on the social and financial steps the local government is taking in the crisis, as well as his own employment status.

MARCH 22, 2020--SANTA FE: Today we speak with Marguerite, a 58 year-old playwright, actress and educator who works with at risk young people. She was recently exposed to the virus and went down the rabbit hole of trying to be tested...

Today, as the virus spreads, your host adds his observations and experiences.

This is the first episode of an audio journal of how we're coping -- as individuals, as communities, as nations -- with this pandemic. We're already hearing from governments, the media, infectious disease and medical experts. Now let's hear from you.

MARCH 21, 2020--TACOMA, WA. Today we talk to Noelle, a 24 year old insurance agent who lives in Tacoma, Washington. She’s married with two children--and was recently tested for Covid-19. She's waiting for the results...

MARCH 19, 2020 Portland, Ore: Today Today we talk to Julia, a creative artist/playwright/teacher and astrologer who lives in Portland Oregon. She is an activist for the queer community and environmental justice, uses theater as a platform for change and gives transformational astrology readings to help folks understand themselves more fully. She lives with five roommates, and her little dog, Sparkles. As a household, Julia and her roommates have developed unique ways to flourish during the shelter in place of this pandemic.To learn more about Julia and schedule an astrology reading: https://www.the-magic-is-you.com/

MARCH 18, 2020. Today we speak with Bob. He’s a 66 year old lawyer who graduated from Yale Law School. He’s also a playwright and a professor of English. Recently, he relocated from his home in the New York City area to his country house in upstate New York. Bob tells us about how the 9/11 disaster compromised the lungs of many New Yorkers, himself included, and despite his best efforts, working with members of congress to sue the government--they could never get the government to test how far the dangerous debris had spread, which would have enabled the cleanup of neighborhoods containing the corrosive alkaline dust.. And now, there are untold numbers of people walking around with compromised lung function--at a time when this pandemic attacks the lungs.These are the Covid Chronicles. A podcast of ordinary voices, in the midst of a Pandemic.

MARCH 17, 2020: New York City. Today we speak with Jay, a 64 year-old real estate broker living in Manhattan. He has a long time partner who lives in Rome.

MARCH 16, 2020: LOS ANGELES. Today we speak to Eleanor, 28 and living in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles.

In this first episode of Covid Chronicles, we check in with Spencer, an American in his 30s living and working in Berlin.