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Preview: Season 11 Episode 1 | 1m 12s | Video has closed captioning.
When the pandemic shuttered New Orleans in 2020, it was in ways more challenging than past disasters the city has endured. Melissa A. Weber, curator at Tulane University, called COVID-19 a "culture killer" for New Orleanians who are accustomed to social gatherings like Mardi Gras.
Aired: 02/16/23
COVID-19, in many ways, is even more detrimental than Hurricane Katrina.
You think about it like this, after Hurricane Katrina, no matter what your situation was, there was, or there may have been, someone there to help you from another city, another state, another country.
If you wanted to play somewhere else, you could get on a plane or get in your car.
And do so.
If you just wanted to go somewhere else, you could do so.
And if you were just here in New Orleans and not thinking about going anywhere else, you could get together with community and create fellowship, create music, create gathering.
With this, this is a culture killer, because the entire notion of gathering close together is no longer acceptable.
