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A Conversation With Joe Biden And what else you need to know today. Good morning. Joe Biden talks about his plans on Covid and more. Image Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in Wilmington, Del., yesterday.Credit...Amr Alfiky/The New York Times “It will be the first priority, the second priority and the third priority — to deal with Covid and bring down the spread and bring down the death rate,” President-elect Joe Biden told me during a phone call yesterday. I had asked how he would try to persuade Americans to make one final push to change their behavior in early 2021 and reduce the virus’s...

Few can endure the loneliness that is a moral requirement of this moment. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Masks are a common sight in Salt Lake City on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. The Utah Department of Health on Friday reported a seven-day average of 2,702 new positive test results per day — below last week’s rate of nearly 3,000. By Michelle Goldberg | The New York Times   | Dec. 22, 2020, 11:00 p.m. Journalist Anne Helen Petersen recently asked, on Twitter, for articles about the “long-term psychological effects” of the pandemic. She soon noticed that many of ...

>> Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times Published: 22 Dec 2020 11:22 AM BdST Updated: 22 Dec 2020 11:22 AM BdST A medical worker stretches outside Maimonides Medical Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, April 14. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs   Journalist Anne Helen Petersen recently asked, on Twitter, for articles about the “long-term psychological effects” of the pandemic. She soon noticed that many of the replies were about the damage it was doing to children. "); } Seeing this crystallised something I’d been dimly aware of. The strange politics of the coronavirus have created a ...

Dec. 21, 2020 The journalist Anne Helen Petersen recently asked, on Twitter, for articles about the “long-term psychological effects” of the pandemic. She soon noticed that many of the replies were about the damage it was doing to children. Seeing this crystallized something I’d been dimly aware of. The strange politics of the coronavirus have created a taboo, at least in certain progressive circles, in talking too much about the emotional suffering wrought by nine months of purgatorial isolation. It’s easier to discuss what it’s doing to our kids, because we feel justified in tryin...

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Let's talk some more about what to do about the holidays. For many families, this holiday season has already been emotionally fraught as they've tried to balance their desire to be together with the pleas from public health officials to stay home. And even before Thanksgiving, the message was that traveling is irresponsible, and the hashtag #covidiots appeared, calling out people who ignored official warnings. Yet millions of people did make the decision that it was worth traveling in order to be with family. So is shame really the best way to stop the spread of coronavir...