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11 Aug 2021 Conversations with Tyler Andrew Sullivan on Braving New Intellectual Journeys
“I think the experience of having had an opportunity to avoid a catastrophe and then walking right into it is potentially much more emotionally and psychologically traumatizing than just having something happen to you that you had no warning for, and that you couldn’t have prepared for but which knocked you out — the way New Yorkers I think were traumatized by 9/11 or indeed the first wave of COVID.”
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- 11 Aug 2021
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Do you think the American Southeast will walk away from the pandemic as the least traumatized or most traumatized part of the country? It could be the most. I think the experience of having had an opportunity to avoid a catastrophe and then walking right into it is potentially much more emotionally and psychologically traumatizing than just having something happen to you that you had no warning for, and that you couldn’t have prepared for but which knocked you out — the way New Yorkers I think were traumatized by 9/11 or indeed the first wave of COVID. If I stay in Miami or Nashville, it seems to have returned to normal much more quickly than in San Francisco, and people have a more casual attitude about it that seems to be bad from the point of view of casualties, but there’s lower unemployment, more rapid bounce-back. Won’t they walk away —…
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