Podcast: Infections, Vaccinations, and Other Questions
On this episode of the podcast Social Distance, listeners with mild COVID-19 cases call in with their questions. James Hamblin explains why he thinks the summer could be wonderful. And Maeve Higgins shares nun news from Ireland.
Listen to their conversation here:
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What follows is a transcript of the episode, edited and condensed for clarity:
Maeve Higgins: I’ve been dying to tell you about the latest Irish news. Ireland is under pretty severe lockdown at the moment. You’re not allowed to move from county to county. But some nuns put this video online of them performing an exorcism in Dublin, and they’re not from Dublin.
James Hamblin: Oh, and you’re not allowed to … do exorcisms outside of your locality?
Higgins: I mean, you’re allowed to, but you’re just not allowed to break COVID guidelines to go and do an exorcism.
Hamblin: What happened to them? Are they in trouble?
Nothing’s happened to them. The government was already keeping an eye on them. It’s, so the nuns were, like, known to the authorities and then they broke the COVID rules and came and did an exorcism.
