What is a life worth? Does one person have an obligation to suffer to protect another? In this episode, we explore some of the costs of our response to covid-19 and examine the possibility that social distancing may be causing more harm than good.

References:

KFF Article - The Implications of COVID-19 for Mental Health and Substance Use: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/the-implications-of-covid-19-for-mental-health-and-substance-use/

Scinetific American Article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-surprising-mental-toll-of-covid/

Social distancing will result in a backlash of sickness: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/48/30547

Motivation & Addiction episode: https://www.post-wave.com/13-motivation-addiction

Doing Good Better episode: https://www.post-wave.com/20-doing-good-better

Heroin use in Vietnam veterans: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12873239/

Projected US Deaths: https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america?view=total-deaths&tab=trend

South Korea, Hong Kong, Germany response to covid: https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-020-01791-8

Eradication of Polio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_eradication

Sterile environment affects gut microbiome: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4080534/

Boston homeless population disproportionately asymptomatic to covid: https://www.bhchp.org/sites/default/files/Asymptomatic%20cases%20pose%20challenge%20for%20Boston%20homeless%20shelters%20_%20Boston.com_.pdf

Music by Trevor Villwock