Interview with Dr. Lucy McBride: The Pandemic and Politics
Big Time Adulting
Caitlin Murray
4.9 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Dr. McBride and I discussed the current state of the pandemic and the ways in which politics have dictated the policies surrounding mitigation strategies over the last two years, particularly within the last year given the widespread availability of vaccines, the known low risk presented to all children, who have been mandated to adhere to the strictest policies…in blue states.
The goal of this episode was to discuss the disruptions this pandemic has placed on people’s mental well-being and to provide scientific facts to reassure those who may still be fearful as mitigation measures begin to relax, and indeed, to emphasize the need for this process to happen both peacefully and respectfully for the sake of our kids.
Dr. McBride is the creator of Urgency for Normal, which consists of a conglomerate of well-accredited doctors who are speaking up, pro-bono, to advocate for the lowest risk population effected by Covid: the kids.
Websites:
https://www.urgencyofnormal.com
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/drlucymcbride/?hl=en
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/drlucymcbride?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to big time adulting the podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm your host, Caitlin Murray, and I'm here to take it deep with you on adulthood, womanhood, motherhood, and whatever other things end in hood that we can think of. |
| 0:15.0 | It's going to be real, it's going to be honest, and we are going to laugh until a little pee comes comes out if you've been looking to find a podcast to relate to as a woman and a mom and you're kind of awesome which definitely are subscribe now |
| 0:29.7 | now hello everybody and welcome back to the big time adulting podcast this week I have. I think |
| 0:42.0 | this is my most exciting podcast episode to date for me anyway. Somebody who is an absolute |
| 0:48.8 | rock star badass here today, Dr. Lucy McBride, she's a practicing internist with two decades of experience. |
| 0:56.4 | She's trusted in recognized voice in patient care. She's also a Bloomberg New Voices Fellow, |
| 1:02.2 | a health care educator, mental health advocate, and health care disruptor working to increase |
| 1:07.7 | awareness of the intersection of mental and physical health. Dr. McBride attended Princeton University, Harvard Medical School, and Johns Hopkins University |
| 1:18.0 | as her residency. |
| 1:20.7 | So, you know, she's really quite a slouch in the academic realm there. |
| 1:26.0 | Dr. McBride is a mother of three children herself and she's based |
| 1:29.8 | in Washington, D.C. Dr. McBride, welcome. Thank you so much for coming today. I'm thrilled to be here. |
| 1:37.4 | It's happy, happy and happy to be here. Yeah. So I've just, I found you via the World Wide Web on Instagram, and I've actually been following you for bits and pieces that I've seen you come out with throughout the pandemic. |
| 1:53.5 | Since really early on, you've been a voice of calm and reason here. |
| 1:59.8 | And I want to get to the kids kids but I also feel like it's important |
| 2:03.4 | to just back it up a little bit and discuss how we kind of you know I'm on like I'm on |
| 2:10.1 | the heavy trail against not against masking but for choice of masking children |
| 2:15.7 | and cool so I just want to talk about how this has sort of become such an incredibly controversial topic. |
| 2:23.0 | Like I feel like in the first handful of months following the pandemic, you know, it wasn't an uncommon thing or at all controversial thing to say, God, I can't wait to friggin' burn my mask. |
| 2:35.9 | You know, I just, I suck's wearing these around all the time. And somehow along the way, |
| 2:41.9 | I'm not sure when exactly it all sort of shifted. But if you say something like that now, |
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