rp daily: we think we’re in a fight we are not actually in

start - cautious - vigilant - a new normal: these four phases of breakouts from the covid-19 shutdown are a wary attempt to return to normalcy. with massachusetts announcing their plan to reopen, beginning with stage one, hosts tom scott and rp eddy discuss the questions of restarting daily life: how do we reopen? do we expect spikes in covid-19 cases, and what do we do about them? how do we get back to “normal” while protecting ourselves and those most vulnerable around us? tom has arrived in nashville, where he is visiting the muscle shoals, subject of a music documentary. he notes that most of the city has reopened, but also acknowledges the economic impact of the shutdown. rp eddy and tom discuss the impact of privilege and health on the likelihood of contracting covid-19, and strive to answer the best way to help ourselves and our communities while avoiding the spread of the virus tom scott is chairman & co-founder of the nantucket project.rp eddy was the architect of the Clinton administration’s pandemic response framework and the United Nations response to the global AIDS epidemic & is CEO of global intelligence firm Ergo. rp is co-author of the best-selling award-winning book Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes with Richard A. Clarke, Former National Security Council counterterrorism adviser.