Our Institutions Have Long Covid | America Dissected

The pandemic didn’t change everything-it just made everything weird. From declining trust in institutions to the growing power of Big Tech on our lives, we are struggling to deal with the world as it’s become. Abdul reflects on the long tail of the pandemic. Then he sits down with New York Times columnist David Wallace-Wells to talk about post-pandemic “medical libertarianism,” social media and teen mental health, and the impact of the pandemic on the foundations of our lives.
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00:00 - Intro: How the pandemic affected our institutions
04:02 - Interview start with David Wallace-Wells
07:01 - Example of medical libertarianism: cavity vaccine
14:14 - Covid and skepticism toward institutions
19:21 - Social media & medical misinformation
25:38 - Frustration with medical institutions didn’t start in 2020
29:22 - Treating obesity with GLP-1 Agonists like Ozempic
32:58 - Ad break
33:47 - Teen mental health crisis
43:28 - How phones affect our personal and emotional lives

[@lakesq2056]

thank you, Dr El-Sayed. your pov is both critically important and extremely valuable.

[@chronic_payne5669]

I have Post Covid syndrome, wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. I was disabled before PCS, I’d give anything to go back to being that person. Got it again for the 5th time (I’m vaxxed) this Spring, still can’t smell and all food tastes like melted plastic. I’m hanging by a thread, daily

[@tayzonday]

Your life is in so many places, I sometimes wonder how you find any time.

[@kodowdus]

Your split-screen analogy is profoundly important. The impact of COVID-19 was global, but the vast majority of Americans paid no attention to developments in other countries (including the impact of patent laws, different approaches to lock-down, etc.), just as they are paying no attention to current extreme health-related events in the Middle East that will inevitably result in their own form of blow-back to the rest of us.

[@saralee4thewin]

For me the lock downs were the best time of my life, hands down. I can't relate to those who don't realize the importance of saving lives.

[@lucasdonahue365]

Guest said "uhm" hundreds of times, that is painful. Sometimes it is literally every other word. Needs to work on that, it undermines the message. Otherwise, interesting information.