Feeling Anxious About Returning To Post-Pandemic Society? You're Not Alone
As people start to re-emerge from isolation, there's a lot to navigate and re-learn. Dr. Lucy McBride and theologian Ekemini Uwan field questions from listeners about how to navigate our new reality.
After a long, dark year, social muscles have atrophied. In-person gatherings now call for weighty questions about COVID-19 safety. And many people, who during the pandemic found relief in empty calendars, don't want to go back to the world as they knew it.
NPR's heard from listeners who are grappling with these new realities, and we enlisted two experts to help answer those questions: , a primary care physician, has been hearing a lot about these post-pandemic stumbling blocks from patients and Ekemini Uwan, a theologian, has in order to build a better future. Listen in the audio player above and read on for excerpts of their responses.
