AFT President Randi Weingarten; Harm Reduction in Reopening; President Trump's Crisis Leadership; COVID-19 Anxiety

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 27, 2020

Coming up on today's show:

  • Schools are trying to figure out how they'll be able to reopen safely. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, talks about what school might look like in the fall.
  • All 50 states are now in various stages of reopening. Dr. Leana Wen, emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University, contributing columnist for The Washington Post, and Baltimore's former Health Commissioner, argues the United States needs to move to the public health strategy of harm reduction. 
  • David Frum, Atlantic staff writer, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, and the author of Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy (Harper 2020), offers his take on the president's leadership in this crisis and in general.
  • For so long we've been told to isolate, and stay inside if we can. As states move to reopen, it's only natural to feel some anxiety about leaving the house. George Bonanno, professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University, Teachers College and author of The Other Side of Sadness: What the new science of bereavement tells us about life after loss (Basic Books, 2019), takes your calls on feeling anxious about going back to work, and expanding your circle. Plus, if you're an essential worker, and have been out working this whole time,  how have you been dealing with your anxiety around being out when everyone else is told to stay in?

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