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May 19, 2020
“Humans have life-threatening stressors that activate a physiological stress response, like seeing a tiger in the bushes; the problem is that people who experience discrimination are endlessly seeing tigers,” said Arline Geronimus, professor of health education and health behavior, and research professor at the Institute for Social Research, on the offhanded statements or actions endured by people of color that can affect their mental and physical health.
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May 19, 2020
“For so many women, their crimes are connected to acts of survival. These women are no threat to anyone. They were acting the way any reasonable person would act in a situation where they thought their life was under threat,” said Carol Jacobsen, professor of art and women’s studies and director of the Michigan Justice and Clemency Project, on the deadly spread of the coronavirus in women’s prisons and the need for early release of some prisoners.
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May 18, 2020
“These things that are treated as ridiculous ideas, we’ll be able to say, ‘It’s not a ridiculous idea — it’s what we did during that time,’” said Jeff Sorensen, director for social innovation at LSA, on his involvement with the Washtenaw County Mutual Aid group — created to help students affected by U-M’s closure — part of a larger nationwide network of self-organized volunteer groups that has expanded during the pandemic.
The New Yorker -
May 18, 2020
“College campuses are places of gathering … it’s about that togetherness. Then when you have to tell people, ‘Well, you can’t be together because this is how the virus spreads,’ it’s a difficult problem,” said Preeti Malani, U-M’s chief health officer and professor of internal medicine. “The decision to come back will require that our state is in a good place, but I’m very hopeful.”
The Detroit News -
May 18, 2020
“We probably could have had a moratorium (during the 2008 financial crisis), which would have helped a lot of people … so I think, in one sense, having at least a temporary moratorium now is better than what we had then. But I think we need to start thinking about the looming eviction crisis we’ll have when these moratoriums are lifted,” said Marc Norman, associate professor of urban and regional planning.
Michigan Radio -
May 15, 2020
“I don’t know if we’re going to have a lot of great surveillance to figure out what is working and what is not working. I think we’re going to be feeling around in the dark. We don’t really know if this is seasonal or not and whether the warmer summer weather will save us,” said David Hutton, associate professor of health management and policy, and industrial and operations engineering.
Politico -
May 15, 2020
“The Great Depression affected people their whole lives, and that could be true now for millennials,” said Richard Curtin, director of the Survey of Consumers at the Institute for Social Research, who worries the cumulative effect of the coronavirus recession — especially on younger generations — could compare to the devastating impact the 1930s had on the psychology of Americans.
Bloomberg -
May 15, 2020
“There will be lots of different kinds of data that will give us different pictures of the post-COVID economy, but one of them will be how prices adjust,” said Kathryn Dominguez, professor of public policy and economics. “It is quite possible that the basket of goods that the average American purchases, even after the lockdowns are all over, differ from what they were before the lockdowns.”
Marketplace -
May 14, 2020
“You do run this risk of sort of a permanent damage, because we can do this once. I don’t know if we can keep shutting down the economy on a repeat basis,” said economist Don Grimes of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics, who believes that the country could get mired in another depression if the economy is reopened too quickly and the coronavirus surges back with deadly force.
WXYZ-TV (Detroit) -
May 14, 2020
“Gov. Gretchen Whitmer … has taken swift, decisive action to slow the spread of COVID-19 and prevent hospitals from exceeding capacity, responding nimbly to ever-shifting circumstances,” wrote Barbara McQuade, professor from practice at the Law School. “Republican lawmakers have filed lawsuits challenging Whitmer’s emergency orders. These lawsuits lack merit and seem designed more to score political points than to achieve legal remedies.”
The Detroit News
