Patrick Kroupa and I share an off-the-cuff conversation about COVID-19. We talk about how it is impacting each of our lives, our thoughts on the socio-political responses to the pandemic, and what Patrick's experiences of watching friends and family die offers us insofar as how to show up to the upcoming mass fatalities due to the virus.

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• How we are both coping with the pandemic
• What the pandemic look like on the ground in New York City
• Discussing the growth of COVID-19 reported cases and why there are so many more already and even more coming
• Is COVID-19 our great war? Humanity vs the destructive consequences of our civilization
• Rates of changes and the present dying of our civilization
• Will a better world come out of this or a totalitarian nightmare?
• The pandemic lockdown is forcing us to slow down and be in the present moment
• The impact of COVID-19 on people in poverty and people with drug dependence
• China is now in the aftermath and going about their business. What will our aftermath be like?
• Why flattening the curve is our most reasonable response, now that containment is impossible
• Canada's healthcare system and how it is already starting to cripple our care due to a lack of supplies
• Doug Ford is Ontario Canada's Trump-Lite (but apparently he is, personally, very supportive of psychedelic medicine)
• Test shortages for the population, mask shortages for the healthcare workers and why it's so important to follow social distancing measures
• The difference, for Patrick, between watching his friends die during and after overcoming his heroin addiction
• Comparing the experience of his friends dying with the recent death of his mother
• People we know are going to die of COVID-19 and we shouldn't ignore this fact
• Patrick's experiences of death offer us as perspective in these frightening, and fatal times
• Final thoughts and perspectives for all of us stuck in this together

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