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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to okay f Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker.

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Speaker 1: So friends, as everyone is preparing to rip off their

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Speaker 1: anything from our pandemic um word on the street according

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Speaker 1: this in my interview with our friend, our in house doctor,

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Speaker 1: doctor Jonathan Metzel. There's a new variant. There's a new

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Speaker 1: sub variant um that some doctors are referring to as

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Speaker 1: has some of the same properties in making of amicron,

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Speaker 1: but spreads thirty percent faster than the original amicron. It

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Speaker 1: is right now multiplying itself every two weeks, and currently

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Speaker 1: one in ten cases that are being identified in New

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Speaker 1: York are of this strain. Why do I bring this

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Speaker 1: up at a time when folks really clearly everyone and

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Speaker 1: it isn't just by party or affiliation. It is really

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Speaker 1: through fatigue that people are done. They are done with

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Speaker 1: this virus, They are done with living in the ways

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Speaker 1: that they have for the last two years, and they

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Speaker 1: want to move on. And what this showed me when

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Speaker 1: I saw it and I am reading other news about

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Speaker 1: guards down. Doesn't mean that we shouldn't still be vigilant

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Speaker 1: cable news has taken down their ticker of COVID, just

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Speaker 1: because we are now have our attention on another crisis,

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Speaker 1: right which is the crisis in Ukraine and the potential

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Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that we shouldn't think about how these

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Speaker 1: two things are colliding. So in my conversation with Jonathan,

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Speaker 1: you're talking about now, right in two weeks time, two

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Speaker 1: million people have now fled the Ukraine for bordering nations, right,

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Speaker 1: they are bringing a whole host of health needs. In

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Speaker 1: an interview that I will do, that I had that

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Speaker 1: talks about the needs of Ukrainian people with regard to abortion, right,

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Speaker 1: And we're talking about how this war condenses, right, all

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Speaker 1: So we're talking about doctor's appointments, we're talking about mass

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Speaker 1: That's it, right, And so you don't need your governor,

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Speaker 1: Brittney Griner is caught in the middle. Why do I

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Speaker 1: hospitalized in death. Isn't hanging over us? Um? Do you

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Speaker 1: think that then Republicans were right all of along, and

430
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Speaker 1: that we should have we should have just you know,

431
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Speaker 1: we should have all just gone through the herd immunity

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Speaker 1: and you know, those who were going to die, we're

433
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Speaker 1: going to die anyway, and you know, why do we

434
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Speaker 1: need to keep paying attention into this. It's just going

435
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 1: to turn into the flu. And so their initial you know,

436
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: they're not scientific, So they didn't say endemic and they

437
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 1: didn't say those things, but they said things like herd

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Speaker 1: immunity and things like, you know, we can build up

439
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 1: to it. Yeah, so they're winning talking point, but it's

440
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: their winning talking point. Well, you know, I loved what

441
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Speaker 1: happened with the trucker convoy this week, which is that

442
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 1: they were going to have like ten million trucks come

443
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Speaker 1: to come to DC and like whatever. And then and

444
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: then it turned out like everything they were protesting had

445
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: already been overturned anyway, and so they just drove down

446
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Speaker 1: the highway. But then they just merged into traffic, and

447
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: so everybody nobody even knew as a convoy. They just

448
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 1: looked like a bunch of cars on that road. And

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Speaker 1: so I just think, you know, I don't I don't

450
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Speaker 1: think we're in the business of having to tell people

451
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Speaker 1: what to do anymore. But I don't think there's no

452
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Speaker 1: role for public health. I really don't. I think that

453
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Speaker 1: it's important for prob health to educate people and for

454
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Speaker 1: better or worse. You know, no matter what side of

455
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Speaker 1: this you're on, you've got two years of experience with

456
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Speaker 1: this thing right now. And so I think that that information,

457
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: especially when everybody's not doing the same thing, that information

458
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: is more important than ever in a way. And so

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Speaker 1: I like this. I like this system of you know,

460
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Speaker 1: the color coding at or high risk, low risk or

461
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 1: things like that. That's super important. You want to know

462
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Speaker 1: if there's if there's a surge in your area. I

463
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Speaker 1: think that's super super important. Um, but I do think

464
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Speaker 1: we're heading toward a kind of people take the information

465
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Speaker 1: and then they make their own best decision. Now that

466
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Speaker 1: being said, I cannot stand the argument of conservatives were

467
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Speaker 1: right along. They weren't. That we've had like but this

468
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Speaker 1: is what they'll say. No, I know what I'm saying. Like,

469
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Speaker 1: what that pace is is that we've had like seven

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Speaker 1: different phases of the pandemic. And so in the beginning phase,

471
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Speaker 1: nobody had any immunity whatsoever, it was important to take

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Speaker 1: drastic measures. And then the second round, even before the

473
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Speaker 1: vaccine came out, like, there was a much more lethal

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Speaker 1: form of the virus and that might be coming back,

475
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Speaker 1: and so people act who do that act like the

476
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Speaker 1: virus and the pandemic is all one thing, and that's

477
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Speaker 1: not the case. It's changed, and so there are different

478
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Speaker 1: phases of it. So it's just this idea of kind

479
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Speaker 1: of Monday morning quarterbacking, which is what they do. I

480
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 1: think is it's completely disingenuous. It's a it's a political point.

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Speaker 1: It's not a it's not a um it's it's not

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Speaker 1: based in reality. If people know that, but it's just,

483
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Speaker 1: you know, they want to protest something. So we take

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Speaker 1: off our goloshes, our rain quote, put down the umbrella,

485
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Speaker 1: right did he did? He said? I love that. We

486
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Speaker 1: we we we take off all of this, all of

487
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Speaker 1: this uh heavy duty equipment, and then um, we're out

488
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Speaker 1: in the street and the storm approaches and it rolls

489
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Speaker 1: in fast and we're caught out. What what do you

490
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Speaker 1: think the probability is that we don't all get just

491
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Speaker 1: caught out in the rain, caught out in the shower. Like,

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Speaker 1: what do we roll back into, Oh, now you have

493
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Speaker 1: to wear masks on the train, and now we're you

494
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Speaker 1: have to wear masks at school and all of these things.

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Speaker 1: Do we easily slide back into that? We're responding to

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Speaker 1: the virus and so right now, because people feel like

497
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Speaker 1: the threat level is low, doing all those kind of

498
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Speaker 1: things doesn't make sense. And people are also of course

499
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Speaker 1: itching to get out and the way, you know, in

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Speaker 1: some semblance of normal. But I would say that if

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Speaker 1: we're facing a situation where all of a sudden people

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Speaker 1: start getting really sick the way they did in the beginning, people,

503
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Speaker 1: I think will change pretty quick. So I think we're responding.

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Speaker 1: I think we're responding again to the virus itself, and

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Speaker 1: I just think, you know, I would just urge people

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Speaker 1: to pay attention to their own threat assessment in a way.

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Speaker 1: And you know, again it's the risk is probably going

508
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Speaker 1: to go up in New York. It'll be interesting to

509
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Speaker 1: see what happens with the cases. But yeah, but I

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Speaker 1: would I would just say if the virus itself comes

511
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Speaker 1: back in a major way, itself will change behavior in

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Speaker 1: a way. I mean, think about how quickly. I mean,

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Speaker 1: just think about the last two weeks, Like the entire

514
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Speaker 1: world is different than it was two weeks ago. And

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Speaker 1: so I just think that really being resilient and being

516
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Speaker 1: flexible is probably the most important thing right now. I

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Speaker 1: think if you're stuck in some dogmatic position and the

518
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Speaker 1: virus changes, and you're stuck on some side of this

519
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: or the other, you're going to get screwed. So I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's like everybody's going to get wet. I

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Speaker 1: think the people who are going to be in the

522
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Speaker 1: best shape are the people who can adapt as quickly

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Speaker 1: as they can. I do think to your earlier point

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Speaker 1: that I want to circle back to as we close

525
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Speaker 1: out today, is about the kind of double pandemic that

526
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Speaker 1: is happening with the Ukraine right, which is that we

527
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Speaker 1: are watching all of these terrible attacks on civilians and

528
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: we're watching I mean picture is looking like they are

529
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Speaker 1: straight out of World War Two at these train stations

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Speaker 1: and at bus depots. What we are not talking about

531
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Speaker 1: when we're seeing these masses of people waiting to get

532
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Speaker 1: out of Putin's literal crossfire is we're not talking about

533
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Speaker 1: COVID and we're not talking about two million people potentially

534
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Speaker 1: with you know, significance amounts of COVID then rushing the

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Speaker 1: borders of neighboring countries. Do you think that that should

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Speaker 1: be a part of the conversation or much in the

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Speaker 1: same way that we I wanted to talk about the

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Speaker 1: discrimination and anti blackness that African immigrants are facing in

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Speaker 1: the country. People are telling me, oh, now is not

540
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Speaker 1: the time, Now is not the time. Do you feel

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Speaker 1: that that is something that is being missed in mainstream media? Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I've certainly read articles about

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Speaker 1: the anti blackness that's been happening. I think there's a

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Speaker 1: story that really urgently needs to be told there. I

545
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Speaker 1: just don't know what that story is because I've only

546
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: seen two stories, and so I don't think there's ever

547
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Speaker 1: not a time to talk about that. I just I

548
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: don't know what that story. I don't know what the

549
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: story is. It would not surprise me. And I'm sure

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Speaker 1: there's some horrible things happening to African immigrants in the

551
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Speaker 1: Ukraine and other things like that. I just I don't

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Speaker 1: know enough detail to talk about it. But I do

553
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Speaker 1: know that the way pandemics and infectious illness often work

554
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Speaker 1: in an sort of the first part is that they

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00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 1: follow political fissures as well as structural fissures. And so

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Speaker 1: there's a huge history called humanity of viruses and infections

557
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 1: being spread by political conflicts, and so we've seen this

558
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Speaker 1: across sub Saharan Africa and now now it's happening a

559
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: lot closer to home in a way. And so the

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Speaker 1: fact that political unrest leads to the spread of infectious

561
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Speaker 1: illness is not a new story. It's just it's just

562
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Speaker 1: one that makes a lot more sense to us right

563
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Speaker 1: now because all of a sudden, we're living in the

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Speaker 1: middle of all this. And so I would say that

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Speaker 1: it's not just about people who have COVID moving around.

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Speaker 1: It's also people with no access to treatment, people who

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Speaker 1: get sick but there's nothing they can do about it.

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Speaker 1: And then all the other infectious ill says that have

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Speaker 1: been really saved humanity because of health infrastructure, things like polio,

570
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: for example, or smallpox or things like that. When you

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Speaker 1: have two million people on the move with no access

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00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: to healthcare, these are people who aren't also going to

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Speaker 1: get vaccinated against things that we have overcome but still

574
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: are always consistent threats. Oh, Jonathan, another day, and we

575
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Speaker 1: didn't we didn't even talk. We didn't even talk about Congress.

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Speaker 1: Next week, I'll tell you about Congress. That was quite

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Speaker 1: but yeah, I know, And I'm like, yeah, we had

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Speaker 1: you know, we have war that popped up. I don't

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Speaker 1: know who new variant. Yeah, as always, Jonathan, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for making the time to join us on

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Speaker 1: wik app and walk through you know the Apocalypse with us.

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Speaker 1: You're a good partner one week at a time, Guys,

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00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: we're doing the Apocalypse when we get a time. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: you and now friends for your woke moment of wellness.

585
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm talking to a lot of people who

586
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: are really on the fence about going back into work,

587
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: going back into an office after having worked remotely for

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Speaker 1: the last two years. And one of the questions that

589
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,959
Speaker 1: I said to a client of mine, and I want

590
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: to offer it to all of you, is to really

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00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 1: ask questions of your managers, of your employers who are

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00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,359
Speaker 1: saying you need to return for one day, two days,

593
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 1: three days, four days, or back for the entire week.

594
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 1: Talk to them about nimbleness and flexibility. The world has changed,

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Speaker 1: how we work has changed so much so that even

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Speaker 1: the Governor of New York and the Mayor of New

597
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: York City have said that they think that five day

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Speaker 1: work days right are a thing of the past, and

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00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: that we are moving into a space of three and

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Speaker 1: a half or four days or just providing people with

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Speaker 1: more flexibility to be able to live their lives and

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Speaker 1: work at the same time. And I think that it's

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00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 1: important for us to really not just you know, lay

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00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:17,720
Speaker 1: down and be given back a life that didn't actually

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00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 1: work for any of us. Right. And so there is

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00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 1: an opportunity to build community with your colleagues, right, to

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00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:30,720
Speaker 1: talk about with management, with your employers about what makes

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Speaker 1: the most sense, about how we go back and what

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Speaker 1: this new way of working looks like, so that people

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Speaker 1: actually feel whole. Because I'll tell you this, I have

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00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: never done more work in an actual office than the

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00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 1: work is that I do at home. And it's because

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Speaker 1: I'm able to break when I want. It's because I'm

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Speaker 1: able to go for a walk, I'm able to cook dinner.

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Speaker 1: Then I'm able to rest my mind and then go

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Speaker 1: back to the task at hand. Our office culture, right,

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00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 1: if you're outside of the tech industry, our office culture

618
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: is not conducive to creativity and innovation, right. And the

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00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: commuting exhausts us so that by the time that we

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00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: get home, if you have kids, you're short with them,

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Speaker 1: You barely have the time and the energy to make dinner.

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Speaker 1: We have to find a better way to live, right,

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Speaker 1: and that is the key word here is how are

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Speaker 1: we living? We focus so much on how we are working,

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00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: but we don't really talk about what is actually working

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Speaker 1: for us to live our best lives in the best

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Speaker 1: way possible. And so I challenge you that if you

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Speaker 1: are in leadership positions in the jobs that you have,

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Speaker 1: in the places that you work, to really challenge them

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00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 1: to think outside of the box. Because many people are

631
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: losing their employees who are saying, yeah, I'm not doing this,

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00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: so I'm going to go to the place that allows

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Speaker 1: me to have flexibility so that I can be a

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Speaker 1: whole person in my job and not just a working robot.

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Speaker 1: So I offer that as a way to say, don't

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Speaker 1: just go back to quote unquote normal. It doesn't exist.

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00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:11,320
Speaker 1: And we can find and we have learned of better

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Speaker 1: ways to be in this thing called life and in

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Speaker 1: this thing called work without having to contort ourselves into

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Speaker 1: somebody's idea and version of who they think we should be. That,

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Speaker 1: my dear friends, is your woke moment of wellness. Stay

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Speaker 1: woke and stay well. That is it for me today,

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Speaker 1: hear friends on woke A app as always power to

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Speaker 1: the people and to all the people. Power, Get woke

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Speaker 1: and stay woke as fuck,