{"id":805802,"date":"2020-03-28T14:03:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T20:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=974756"},"modified":"2020-03-28T14:03:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T20:03:30","slug":"david-byrne-pens-coronavirus-op-ed-were-all-in-the-same-leaky-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/david-byrne-pens-coronavirus-op-ed-were-all-in-the-same-leaky-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"David Byrne Pens Coronavirus Op-Ed: \u2018We\u2019re All in the Same Leaky Boat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With New York and surrounding states potentially on the brink of a forced quarantine<\/a>, David Byrne<\/a> penned an op-ed Saturday about self-isolation and \u201cwhat connects us all when physical presence can\u2019t.\u201d An abridged version of Byrne\u2019s op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>, while the singer\u2019s Reasons to Be Cheerful<\/a> online magazine posted the essay in its entirety<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s ironic that as the pandemic forces us into our separate corners, it\u2019s also showing us how intricately we are all connected,\u201d Byrne wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s revealing the many ways that our lives intersect almost without our noticing. And it\u2019s showing us just how tenuous our existence becomes when we try to abandon those connections and distance from one another. Health care, housing, race, inequality, the climate \u2014 we\u2019re all in the same leaky boat.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cViruses don\u2019t respect borders. They get in even with extra screening and travel restrictions. Maybe less, but some slips in. And until there is a vaccine, no one is immune.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Byrne then focused on how some cities around the world responded to the pandemic; in Vo, Italy, site of that country\u2019s first COVID-19 death, the city immediately went into lockdown, tested all the residents and quarantined the infected until the coronavirus<\/a> patients dwindled to zero. In Taiwan, satellite-tracked GPS ensured that quarantined people remain at home. In both cases, personal freedoms were temporarily stifled for the sake of national security.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have changed our behavior before. Ignaz Semmelweis was mocked when, in the mid-19th century, he said that doctors washing their hands before working with patients could save lives. After his death, other germ theorists like Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister showed how correct he was, and the procedure was adopted. Doctors, and all of us, made this change willingly, without coercion. It became a social norm,\u201d Byrne wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat is happening now is an opportunity to learn how to change our behavior. For many of us, our belief in the value of the collective good has eroded in recent decades. But in an emergency that can change quickly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cWe might be too far down the road to test every asymptomatic person, but a change in our mindsets, in how we view our neighbors, could lay the groundwork for the collective action we\u2019ll need to deal with other global crises. The time to see how connected we all are is now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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With New York and surrounding states potentially on the brink of a forced quarantine, David Byrne penned an op-ed Saturday about self-isolation and \u201cwhat connects us all when physical presence can\u2019t.\u201d An abridged version of Byrne\u2019s op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, while the singer\u2019s Reasons to Be Cheerful online magazine posted the essay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 23:57:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}