Disinfection theater, robots, and bright lights

Texas is reopening. While that very decision is mired in politics, there’s another “P” word that will also play a big role in how the economy spins back up. That second “P” word is “PSYCHOLOGY.” Texans are going to have to feel it’s safe enough to go out before they actually do so. We begin this episode with a psychotherapist in Dallas who tells the Jasons how she arrived at a comfortable point to start re-engaging in society. But the Jasons then went to a Westin hotel in Houston to learn how robots are opening a new front in the virus battle. And these aren’t imports either. We’re talking good old-fashioned Texas robots that are blasting the invisible enemy. Once they were fixtures just in hospitals. Now they’re roaming the rooms of hotel and the halls of the Texas state capitol building. The San Antonio company that makes them says this isn’t the ‘disinfection theater’ you might find in some places where unproven procedures are being carried out just to make people feel safer in the Covid-19 world. That company is now ramping up to try to keep up with all the different businesses who want their own virus-zapping robot.

GUESTS:

Leigh Richardson, psychotherapist, The Brain Performance Center

Archit Sanghvi, VP of Operations Pearl Hospitality

Dr. Mark Stibich, co-founded Xenex

Disinfection effect of pulsed xenon ultraviolet irradiation on SARS-CoV-2