Charlottesville Quarantine Report

18/04/2024

I don't know if anyone ever signed up for this page, but this is the edition from four years ago today. I'm Sean Tubbs and I think this was some of the best journalism I've ever done. And I'm still going now on a lot of other issues.

https://covid-19-in-charlottesville.simplecast.com/episodes/episode-21-establishing-the-trend

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15/03/2024

Four years ago today, I was not a journalist and was instead doing work that was killing my soul. Doubt has always been my superpower, which is why I'm such a good reporter. I must confirm things repeatedly.

When the pandemic hit four years ago, I was as lost as everyone else. On March 15, 2020, I had this sudden idea to just begin a podcast, something I'd not done for at least ten years.

So I just went ahead and did it, and the latest and most successful chapter of my career to date began. Four months later, I'd quit my job and opted to go it alone. Now I've got the beginning of an information engine I hope will keep me writing for the rest of my life.

I knew I was going to be all alone and I knew I needed something to take my mind off of things. So I got to work, and I've not looked back since.

Thank you to all my supporters, paid and unpaid.

I thought I would go ahead and create a podcast to help share information on what's going on in the Charlottesville and Albemarle area.

06/08/2021

The Charlottesville Quarantine Report was created in March 2020 to cover the pandemic. Since then, this work has transformed into the newsletter and podcast Charlottesville Community Engagement. This 57th edition of CQR is also the 228th edition of CCE! And hopefully you will find it to be informative and instructive. Please share it with others.

Hello and welcome to Charlottesville Community Engagement. I’m your host, Sean Tubbs, and before we get started, I wanted to remind some of you and tell some of your for the first time that this program is an offshoot of a podcast I created in March 2020 to get information out about COVID-19. Doin...

04/04/2021

The April 3, 2021 edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement is another pandemic episode. Go listen, and subscribe for free!

Listen now (14 min) | Today’s anonymous support comes from something we’ll call the Valley Research Center and thanks to a generous contribution that provides much of the bumper music you’re hearing on the program. This came in the form of a donation through the Zelle platform, and I am gratef...

30/03/2021

Alas, there may not be another edition of the Charlottesville Quarantine Report, but the March 26, 2021 edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement served in that capacity. Do take a listen.

There is also a chance this page may be changed to Charlottesville Community Engagement given that's mostly what I do now. What do you think?

Listen now (14 min) | In today’s subscriber-sponsored public service announcement, the Albemarle County Solid Waste Alternatives Committee, or SWAAC, wants you to join the effort to clear up litter from the landscape as part of the Keep Virginia Beautiful initiative. SWAAC wants you to put on some...

15/03/2021

The first installment of this program went out a year ago today. I'm working on a new one now.

I thought I would go ahead and create a podcast to help share information on what's going on in the Charlottesville and Albemarle area.

07/02/2021

It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and a day many might usually gather to celebrate on this unofficial national holiday. But the pandemic is still keeping this from being a normal time, and this installment of the Charlottesville Quarantine Report is intended to catch us up on where we are eleven months since the first positive case was recorded in Virginia.

https://covid-19-in-charlottesville.simplecast.com/episodes/northam-wants-virginia-schools-open-for-high-risk-students-by-march-15

16/01/2021

I am currently working on the 52nd installment of the program, which will be out tomorrow. I'd hoped to have it out tonight, but I want to spend some more time on it and get tomorrow's numbers in.

But I wanted to state that I created this show 10 months ago this weekend in order to bring you information about what was happening. I don't think the audience numbers were blockbuster in number, but the work I did to get the show out helped me build an infrastructure that allows me to bring information to the community each and every day.

I am posting the first installment now, and encourage you to take a listen through. This show is a record of the public response. I produced 37 episodes from mid-March to mid-June, and it captures my reporting of that time period in our lives.

Where were you in mid-March? How has your life changed? We need to talk about this time in our lives, and to talk about it in public. We've all been though a life-transforming experience. Drop a note in the comments. I really want to know how you are.

https://covid-19-in-charlottesville.simplecast.com/episodes/episode-1-march-15-2020

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I thought I would go ahead and create a podcast to help share information on what's going on in the Charlottesville and Albemarle area.

24/12/2020

The 51st episode of the Charlottesville Quarantine Report doubles as the 117th edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement, a newsletter and podcast created out of a need to get more information out about the pandemic.

Please sign up to the email list, for free, if you'd like to receive a daily look into area information, beyond just the pandemic. And please share with people. Today's installment has lots of information about the vaccines and has UVA Health officials on record saying they feel they are prepared for a surge in cases.

And what do you think? Please engage!

Listen now (18 min) | Today's Patreon-fueled shout-out is for the Plant Northern Piedmont Natives Campaign, an initiative that wants you to grow native plants in yards, farms, public spaces and gardens in the northern Piedmont. Native plants provide habitat, food sources for wildlife, ecosystem resi...

19/11/2020

As we approach another pandemic holiday and beyond, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam offers cautious hope for the not-too-distant future.

"A vaccine is in sight and while that take time to distribute and take effect, I hope that just a few months from now we may be past the worst of this.

With Thanksgiving a week away, a quarter million Americans have died of COVID-19. The nations top expert on pandemics warns of hard times to come.

"We are in the process of another resurgence as we enter into the much colder months of the late fall and early winter as people go indoors much more than outdoors and they're gathering with friends and with family."

Dr. Fauci addressed the University of Virginia this week, and Northam held another press conference. In this 50th episode of the Charlottesville Quarantine Report, excerpts of both events, as well as a local update from the Blue Ridge Health District.

As we approach another pandemic holiday and beyond, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam offers cautious hope for the not-too-distant future. "A vaccine is in sight and while that take time to distribute and take effect, I hope that just a few months from now we may be past the worst of this. With Thanks...

12/11/2020

The national election has brought the potential for a national strategy to fight COVID-19 with the announcement by President-elect Joe Biden to create an advisory group.

“This group will advise on detailed plans, build on a bedrock of science, and will keep compassion, empathy and care for every American," Biden said on Monday.

But there are more than two months into inauguration and there is a looming crisis according to Virginia Governor Ralph Northam.

This is the 49th episode of the Charlottesville Quarantine Report. On today’s show, excerpts from Governor Northam’s November 10 press conference, as well as parts of President-elect Biden’s task force announcement. You can listen to the 20 minute podcast or read the rough transcript. There's a lot of information in here you may find useful.

This is a rough transcript for this program, and as such is not formatted like a news story. Yet I know that many prefer to read these, so I took the time to write it all out. But now I need to mov…

11/11/2020

There will be another installment of this show in the next couple of days, but in the meantime, make sure you are listening or reading the Charlottesville Community Engagement Newsletter and Newscast each day!

Listen now (12 min) | The eleventh day of the eleventh month has arrived, and we remember our veterans today, especially those who may not have made it through this difficult year. This November 11, 2020 edition of the program is dedicated to their memory. Today's Patreon-fueled shout-out