Part 4A – Quarantine and Chill with Lanvell Blake from Jamaica

Like many other scholars around the world, this unprecedented pandemic provides a live case study, being multi-disciplinary in nature. Lanvell is uniquely positioned to opine on the global issue from his background in media and his current study of Public Health and Health Promotion at Swansea University in Wales. We take on the debate of the media’s role from the onset of covid-19 – did they encourage panic or preparedness? The conversation also sheds light on the Jamaican situation exploring rural-urban attitudes to the outbreak in the island paradise and the role of public-private partnerships in combatting the emergency. A dedicated marathon runner as well as an avid mental health advocate, Lanvell shared a few coping strategies to ease us through the period.

We had so much to say in this episode, the rest continues in Part 4B.

The figures and scenarios reported within the episodes were based on time of recording as at March 22-23, 2020*