WEBVTT - Finding Joy 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.480 Good morning, keats and welcome to look at up daily 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:18.000 with Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording not So Live 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.880 from the Long Island Bunker. Folks, I hope that you 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:25.720 actually got some time, maybe the whole twenty four hours 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:31.360 daring your Thanksgiving holiday to not think about our impending doom, 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.040 to not be woken up at a sleep with a 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.760 series of alerts that came through on my phone, as 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.400 I'm sure they did with yours, to alert us to 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:43.000 the fact that not even twenty four hours after gathering 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.840 with our family and our friends for the first time 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:51.479 since right the beginning of the pandemic for an actual holiday, 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.960 that we would get the grand old news on Friday 0:00:55.040 --> 0:01:01.280 that yes, amy kron has hit the world. And what 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.400 is that, Well, it's one of the scariest letters in 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:09.319 the Greek alphabet. It is not a transformer, but it 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:15.960 has transformed the COVID nineteen vaccine into thirty little nods. 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:22.000 Thirty different mutations have now been discovered by scientists and 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:28.760 epidemiologists in South Africa. And guess what gift they get 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:33.400 for detecting yet a new variant in the world. Oh, 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:38.840 they get banned from the United States and multiple European countries. 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.480 And what I find really troubling about all of this 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.720 is that it's bullshit. It's not actually based on anybody's 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:50.320 fucking science. It's based on politics and racism and money. 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.000 So let me take a step back, folks, and let 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:59.440 us start from the beginning of the announcement of this news. Now, look, 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.160 here's the thing is that until everyone and I don't 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.600 mean everybody in your family, and I don't mean everybody 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.640 in America, but I mean everyone in the world, until 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:13.200 everyone is fully vaccinated, we are going to continue to 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:18.160 get different variants of COVID nineteen. Because what we've learned 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.120 through our time with our friend doctor Jonathan Metzel and 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.000 other doctors that have come on the show and scientists 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.680 that have been studying this over the last we're headed 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:30.000 into two years of living in a global health pandemic. 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.200 Is this is that when there is a lot of 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:37.679 virus that is still floating around in the air, what 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:42.800 happens well that virus is then looking for different avenues 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.960 and different hosts. And what will continue to happen is 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:49.560 that what viruses do, they mutate in order to get 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:53.760 stronger so that they can claim more victims. That is 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:57.400 what viruses do, they look for hosts. And so here 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:02.480 is an example where this new variant is discovered in 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:08.600 South Africa by epidemiologists there. Now, instead of being hailed 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:12.880 right for their transparency and the fact that they are 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.400 continuing to do this work, and why is it discovered 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:19.080 there because some of the world's best epidemiologists are in 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.200 South Africa And why is that? Because they have dealt 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:26.280 with other very serious viruses, some of which have never 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:28.840 made it to the shores of the United States or 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:34.399 other countries. Right. And so instead of right us deciding 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.560 that we're not going to ban a virus because you 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:41.120 can't fucking ban a virus that by the time this 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.840 was discovered, let's say now at this time, it has 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.400 been about a week since this discovery, that guess what, 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:53.080 that virus has up and gone around that country, multiple 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:58.280 other countries, gotten on multiple flights, right, and is already gone. 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.760 And what many of the scientists and doctors that we're 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.840 saying over the weekend as we are learning more about 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:11.200 omikron is this is that these bands from countries are 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:16.080 nothing more than political maneuvers. They make actually no scientific sense. 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:20.680 And for an administration that claims to be following science. 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.360 It seems to me that the Biden administration was once 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:28.039 again politically swayed by what it was other countries were 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:32.400 doing instead of actually deciding that, hey, we're going to 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.440 follow the CDC, We're going to follow the wh show. 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.000 And what they are saying is that the measures that 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.120 need to be put in place are not banning fucking 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:46.040 nationals from other countries, right, but still accepting your US citizens, 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:50.280 still accepting those that have permanent residency. What difference does 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.320 it make. The most important thing to be doing at 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:57.279 this moment would be to do a couple of things. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:01.000 A have a quarantine protocol that is place for all 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.080 travelers coming into the United States, regardless of where they're 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:06.839 coming from. If you're coming into the United States, that 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.400 you need to be quarantining, whether or not you fucking 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:13.440 live here or not. If you are coming from another country, 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.680 you need to quarantine for whatever it is. If it 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.480 is a week, if it's ten days, if it's two weeks, 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.360 that's what you need to do. And fuck the economy 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:28.200 and fuck dealing about politics and not actually paying attention 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:32.680 to the health and the science around this, Right, Maybe 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.120 instead of playing politics, we should do that. So that's 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:41.279 number one. Number two, having a uniform policy with all 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:45.080 all airlines in the United States that, guess what, in 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:50.360 order to fucking fly internationally or domestically, you need to 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:55.920 show proof of vaccine, right, instead of once again continuing 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.560 to fucking cater to the twenty five percent that are 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.960 never going to get vaccinated in this country because you 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:06.919 know they would rather follow the Rogans, the Joe Rogans 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:11.159 of the world than the actual scientists. Right, So instead 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.719 of doing that, we're just going to decide to ban 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.839 full countries. And again, I just want folks to be 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:22.680 clear that when news of this new omicron variant hit 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:28.680 and the United States announced that at midnight today that 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:33.200 they were going to be banning South Africa and several 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:37.159 other African nations, why the fuck didn't they ban Hong Kong. 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:42.440 Why not people from Germany? Why not motherfucker's from the Netherlands, Right, 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:46.039 because again, it had already been announced at the same 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:50.279 goddamn time that the variant was in these other countries. 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.840 So again, if I'm a reporter, if I'm a White 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:58.120 House correspondent, and I'm sitting and I'm waiting for my 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:02.680 Monday briefing you that's fucking believed that. I'm asking Jen Saki, 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.360 and I'm asking whoever is going to be the spokesperson 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.400 on this day from the COVID nineteen task force, how 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:12.400 the decision to have a band for African nations but 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.640 not the other nations where the variant was already discovered, 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.880 How that came to pass, and how it doesn't make 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.520 sense because several doctors and scientists that have been on 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.280 the Sunday shows and been on all the news stations 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.200 since it was announced have said that your travel bands 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.120 are nothing more than political maneuvers. What do you think 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:35.560 about that? That's what I would wait for, But of 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:39.520 course we won't do that because our mainstream media is 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.680 just as racist as every other fucking industry, and so 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:46.040 you can justify, oh, well, it was discovered here, which 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.000 means that there must be more of it, So we're 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:52.200 going to put in a racist, xenophobic band, That's what 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.720 we're going to do. I am just so fucking sick 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.280 and tired of the bullshit, and I wish that people 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:00.680 would just say what it is right like lying to me, 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.120 stop pissing on our legs and telling us that it's 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.680 fucking raining when you know exactly what it is that 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.520 you're doing, and you know why you are making these maneuvers, 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.280 and it has nothing to do with keeping people quote 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.560 unquote safe, Because if you wanted to have real safety 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:21.000 right around around this virus innovating on itself every couple 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.520 of fucking months, then you would put together drastic measures 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.600 that need to be in place in order to keep 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.920 people safe instead of worrying about these fucking twenty five 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.040 percent nut jobs right who would rather beat up school 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:36.560 board members and punch out their child's pediattrition for saying 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.440 that they should wear a mask. They're the reasons why 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.679 we are never getting rid of COVID nineteen. You know, 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:48.400 I was sitting around the table on Thanksgiving, and you know, 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.560 thankfully I will say this that my family is not crazy, 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.440 So I did not need to figure out, you know, 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.400 all the ways to tiptoe around not talking about politics 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.559 and not bringing up COVID and all of these things. Now, 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:07.480 my family were all Democrats, right and of sound mind, 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.400 and so I'm grateful for that. That was one of 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.400 the things that I was very grateful for over Thanksgiving 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.440 the holiday, But the reality is as I was saying 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:20.200 to my mom. And I went on MSNBC over the 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.400 weekend as well, and Aim and Mohadeen, the host of 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.920 the show, asked, you know what people did in order 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:31.800 to divert conversations around politics or not have those uncomfortable 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.960 conversations with your answer uncles who may think differently than you. 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:37.360 And I was having this debate with my mother, and 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.160 I want to know what all of you think. I said. 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:44.840 One of the reasons that I believe that we elected 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:46.880 a Donald Trump, And by we, I don't mean me 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.200 and you because we were to staying for that, I 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:53.480 mean the rest of America. The reason why Donald Trump 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.719 was elected president and the reason why people were so 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:04.000 shocked that their neighbors, that their friends, their pta neighbors, 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.880 their kids school teacher, The reason why people were so 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.320 shocked that they would fall for the ropadope of Donald 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:15.200 Trump and literally degrade themselves into a party that is 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.920 nothing more than a cult of white supremacists is because 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:22.959 we don't have those conversations. We actually have no idea 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.760 how to have conversations with people whose opinions may differ 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:28.840 from us. Now, I know that that you may think 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.400 that That is a rich coming from me because I 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.920 utilized my rage for my work. But trust and believe 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:39.280 that when I am in small groups or gatherings with people, 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.800 that I'm one of those people that will dig, that 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:47.240 will ask you your why, right, Like what made you 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.319 think this way? What made you vote this way? What 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.520 it is about the course of your day to day 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.200 life that made you believe or that makes you believe 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.319 that a Donald Trump or Trumpism is going to be 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.880 better for you, your family, in your community than anything else. 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:05.520 You See, we don't know how to engage in conversation, 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:09.400 nor do we teach people how to engage in conversation 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:13.080 so that we can come to a level of collaboration, 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.160 right if that is in fact your goal right to 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.000 be able to work with people that think differently. And 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.560 I'm not talking again about rampid racists, because I don't 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.280 want to work with those fucking people. But I'm talking 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.800 about the people who were either middle of the fense right, 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:33.040 or they started out at actually believing in economic anxiety 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.800 and then that just turned into them having somebody to 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:39.240 blame for their lat in life. I'm not saying that 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:43.280 I am trying to sit down and cajole racist. But 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.960 I do believe that there was a point in time. 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.560 I think we've fought passed that, But there was a 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:52.679 point in time when if we were having conversations about 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:56.720 political ideologies, policies and themes that we want to see 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.120 in our own lives, and we start to ask people there, 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.640 why why is it important to you that trans kids 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.319 are not able to use the bathroom that they identify with? 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:08.960 Why is it important to you that gay people should 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.440 not be allowed to be married? Why is it important 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.400 to you that everyone that kills an unarmed black person 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.719 should be able to get off and have the reasonable 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:22.600 doubt right? Like again, asking these questions, because then you 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:28.280 understand or you force people to articulate their positions right, 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.360 and then we can figure out, well, what is they're there? 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.000 What's the thread that we can pull that would have 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:39.080 their entire ideology that isn't made on anything collapse right, 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.640 and be able to show them something that is better, 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:45.200 right and offer that up. But because we've always been 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:48.360 taught not to talk about politics and not to talk 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:53.400 about religion, right, that we're just mom on these most 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:58.400 important topics, these topics that actually dictate how we live 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.360 our day to day life, which makes absolutely no sense 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:07.000 to me. But I can understand from a politicians point 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.960 of view or the clergy that so long as we 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:16.200 keep people right isolated within their tribes, never to venture out, 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.160 then you can continue to have control over them. But 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:23.199 you see, if we learn how to coordinate, how to collaborate, 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.480 how to be in conversation, and we no longer see 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:30.920 each other as the enemy, right, then these other people 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.280 that are above us don't have the power to rule 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:38.600 us underneath their thumbs. This is what this all comes 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:44.400 back to, folks, money and power, right, And I don't 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:48.760 understand why we make everything so damn complicated. Why is 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.080 it that we are going to continue to see new 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.840 variants pop up all over the world. We'll let me 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:59.160 tell you. Because the wealthiest fucking nations, right, who had 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:03.560 their pledge to help the lower income nations, right, the 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:08.800 lower the lower wealth earning nations, decided not to Right, 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.480 They're gonna get theirs right, much in the same way 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:16.120 that the fucking wealthy in this country and in all 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.800 countries around the world don't pay their fair share, don't 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:23.000 you know, don't don't have their income tax, but have 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.760 this tax and blah blah blah, and literally have all 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.120 of these loopholes that were built for them right to 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:33.040 continue to build their wealth right while everyone else arounds 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:38.360 them suffers. It's the same way that these wealthy nations think, oh, well, 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:41.360 we've got the vaccines for our people, So what difference 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.320 does it make if we don't send over the vaccinations 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:48.920 to lower wealth countries. Well, because it's a fucking virus. 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.960 And until all of us are safe, none of us 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:57.840 are safe. So until we have nations like Haiti, like 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:02.760 South Africa, like Greece, like these other countries Austria, right, 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:06.800 let the wait until we have these places right, have 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:10.560 the amount of vaccines that they need, have the help 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.480 with their rollouts, right, and so we know that we 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.960 are doing all of our fair share. Right. You again, 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:20.360 because there are people that I mean folks. Let me 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:26.080 tell you something, small island Martinique right over the weekend, 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:33.240 massive protests, shootings at journalists and shootings at cops. Why 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.720 because of the COVID nineteen protocols that are being put 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.200 in place, that are being forced on them, because they 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:44.600 are still colonized by the French. Right, And so I'm 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.200 saying that you're never going to be able to force people, 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:51.239 while in some countries you actually can, but in democratic 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.280 or at least democratic presenting countries, you're never going to 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.760 be able to force people to take the vaccine. But 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.560 if their government doesn't even have enough vaccine to pro by, 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.440 that means that then they are the ones that are 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.680 playing any meany miny mo and saying, well, we'll get 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.600 you folks vaccinated, but not you folks over here, because 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:13.680 guess what, they don't have enough. Meanwhile, in America, we 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:17.320 have more than enough vaccines to get everyone in America 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:21.480 vaccinated more than once, right on top of all of 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.960 the booster shots that we're giving out right. And so 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:28.560 my whole thing is that we are paused in this 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:32.280 country at roughly fifty nine to sixty percent of the 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:38.680 whole entire population of adults being vaccinated. Right. So if 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:40.440 that be the case, and you know that you have 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:44.120 a certain expiration date to be able to utilize these vaccines, 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:47.360 then why aren't they being sent to the places that 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:51.640 need them the most? And it is because of capitalism 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.880 and because of racism, all of the reasons that if 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.360 you look at where the fault lines are in this 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.600 country and where most of the fault lines are around 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.520 the world. That's what it comes down to, those two 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:07.080 very things. Now we can right pretend that it's all 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.480 a bunch of other issues and all a bunch of 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:13.520 other things. Oh it's economic anxiety. Oh it's family choice. 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.880 Oh it's this that there thing. No it's not. It's 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:19.600 capitalism and racism, right, the two things that make this 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.280 world go round or will make an implode, you know, 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:28.520 pick a side. And then I saw something else over 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:32.879 the weekend that literally made my skin crawl, which was 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.560 this number. And again I'm not one hundred percent sure 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.280 if this number is correct, but I'm going to throw 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.600 it out there, and I'm going to say that it 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:45.159 would cost this is what was being tweeted out when 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:48.040 it was retweeted by a couple of news outlets, twenty 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:52.359 five billion dollars to vaccinate the world. And again, I 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.359 don't know if that is actually the right number, if 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.440 it's so low, but let's say that it was a 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:02.320 hundred billion, right, Let's just throw that out there. Let's 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:05.280 say that it's a hundred billion dollars to vaccinate the world. 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:12.080 Jeff Bezos is worth one hundred and fifty billion, right, 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.720 and do you know what we did for the last 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:20.000 couple of months, would celebrate him and Richard Branson and others, 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:23.800 right with their billion dollars dick measuring competition that they're 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:28.000 doing into outer space, celebrating their vast wealth that they 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:32.040 can just shit away tens hundreds of millions of dollars 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:34.400 so that they can take a little fifteen minute trip 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:39.800 to outer space. Right meanwhile, we have a virus that 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.560 is ravaging the planet, and people want to say, well, 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.320 if we just had enough money, then we would be 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.240 able to get people vaccinated. No, there is enough money. 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:52.000 There's just not enough will, there's not enough interest to 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:55.560 actually get those things done. But then we want to 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:59.280 turn around and we want to celebrate greed. We want 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:02.480 to give it wall to wall coverage from multiple days 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:07.280 in a row, and then we want to blame the 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:11.000 lower income countries that don't have the resources, and then 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:17.119 we want to ban them. It's just like when you 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:21.640 look at the picture that is continually painted, it's so 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.280 disgusting and it's so hard not to look at it. 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:30.120 You know. I tell folks like no rest, like get 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:33.840 your rest recharge, and I tried desperately to do that 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:36.960 and for the most part, I was successful until I 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:41.159 got the breaking news alerts coming across my phone and 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:43.359 I looked at my mother and we said, God damn, 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:48.040 we had one day, one day and we still couldn't 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:52.040 not talk about COVID because we're having our Thanksgiving in 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:55.760 the shadow of what Thanksgiving looked like the year prior, 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:59.320 you know, when it was just many of us with 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:03.040 just our pod with the windows open, like, you know, 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:06.880 probably washing our turkey with fucking bleach to make sure 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:09.679 that there was no coronavirus on it, because that was 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:13.000 where we were in terms of our understanding. Look how 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:17.200 much we have learned? Well, you know, I would say 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.439 seventy five percent of us. Look how much we have learned? 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:24.440 Right while the twenty five percent continue to listen to 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:29.160 you know, Tucker Carlson, who by the way, is vaccinated 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:34.720 and boosted. It just pisces me off. You know. At 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:37.760 the end of the day, I just get to a 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:42.840 place of such a deep aggravation because I realize it's 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:46.880 never going anywhere. We're going to be wearing masks. That 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.439 is our future. I was looking at my local stations 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:53.479 here on Long Island, and they have segments that they 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:58.240 run every day called the New Normal and it is 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:02.760 your latest coronavirus up day, which again, folks, we are 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:06.640 going to be changing calendar year the calendar year in 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:10.520 just a few short weeks. We are right now the 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:14.240 last four weeks to go of twenty twenty one, and 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:17.600 I can't help but think, and I'm sure all of 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:21.560 you are doing this too, is thinking about the last 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:24.920 year one. Where the fuck did twenty twenty one go? Right? 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:30.960 And then also as we're heading into the new year, 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:38.320 I'm like, oh my god, we are we are, folks, 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:49.600 two years, two years into this with no end in sight. 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:55.320 And my fear, as is everyone else's fear, is that 0:21:56.680 --> 0:22:02.200 we will continue to have this virus and at some 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:07.359 point we're going to get a mutation that is going 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:14.680 to get around our current vaccines and then what right 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:18.040 right now, I just want folks to realize everything that 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:21.440 transpires in Europe, for the last two years, we have 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:26.560 been a month behind. They are on lockdown once again 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:32.440 in Austria. As the TAO was tanking on Friday at 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:40.800 news of the latest mutation, the latest strand peloton prices, 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:44.959 we're going through the roof right. Their stock was up 0:22:45.000 --> 0:22:48.280 about six seven percent. Why is that because people are 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:51.800 anticipating that all of this return to work in January, 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:54.359 which for a lot of places right there are still 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:58.240 twenty five percent twenty to twenty five percent of businesses 0:22:58.359 --> 0:23:01.719 never went back, and there were more that are like, okay, 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:04.400 well we're going back in January of twenty twenty two. 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:08.280 And now you see Peloton prices up. The rest of 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:12.080 the DAO is crashed because we have no idea. There's 0:23:12.119 --> 0:23:16.399 now a new strand, right, and there's always going to 0:23:16.440 --> 0:23:19.399 be a new strand because you are always going to 0:23:19.480 --> 0:23:25.480 have this segment that until we have uniform rules across 0:23:25.520 --> 0:23:33.360 this country right, vaccine protocols on all public transportation, restaurants 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:35.399 on indoors, this, that, and the other thing you're seeing. 0:23:35.520 --> 0:23:38.440 Austria is shut down. The UK has just issued now 0:23:38.760 --> 0:23:42.480 that you need to wear masks indoors outdoors, it doesn't 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:45.119 matter where you are, and it is uniform all across 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:50.360 the UK. Folks are instituting new policies because what they 0:23:50.400 --> 0:23:56.399 are seeing is fucking grim. What they know is that 0:23:56.880 --> 0:24:01.240 these could potentially be that strand that is working around 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:04.600 the vaccines, but we won't know for a couple of 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:08.240 weeks and in that time you were going to watch 0:24:09.000 --> 0:24:14.639 Omicron take over Delta as it has already done and 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:19.520 set in parts of South Africa. And then what we're 0:24:19.560 --> 0:24:27.240 back to square one and again we can, much like 0:24:27.400 --> 0:24:31.280 the Democrats, continue to cater to the middle of these 0:24:31.280 --> 0:24:33.880 people that they think are going to vote for them 0:24:33.920 --> 0:24:39.000 once again. Once again, we continue to cater to the 0:24:39.000 --> 0:24:43.159 lowest common denominator. Because if you were to tell a 0:24:43.200 --> 0:24:47.760 majority of this country, right, not the fucking loud minority, 0:24:47.840 --> 0:24:51.240 not the loud crackpots of Trumpism, but if you were 0:24:51.280 --> 0:24:54.919 to say you can no longer fly, take a train, 0:24:55.280 --> 0:25:00.719 rent a car, right, if you are not vaccinated, you 0:25:00.840 --> 0:25:03.879 can no longer right fly in and out of the 0:25:03.920 --> 0:25:09.640 country without quarantining on either side, then you are going 0:25:09.680 --> 0:25:13.240 to seriously mitigate the issues that we're having, not putting 0:25:13.240 --> 0:25:18.600 together arbitrary, racist and xenophobic fucking travel bands, but following 0:25:18.760 --> 0:25:23.439 science and understanding, how do we mitigate this by making 0:25:23.480 --> 0:25:27.399 it almost impossible for people to live their lives without 0:25:27.440 --> 0:25:31.040 getting vaccinated. You know, I want to tell you the 0:25:31.080 --> 0:25:35.480 difference between what it's like an hour and a half 0:25:35.560 --> 0:25:40.000 where I live in Brooklyn at versus out East Summong 0:25:40.080 --> 0:25:45.520 Island where my family is. Out east Oumong Island, particularly 0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:49.080 Suffolk County. So Long Island has two counties, Nassau and Suffolk, 0:25:49.640 --> 0:25:54.200 and Suffolk County has always traditionally been more Republican. It's 0:25:54.280 --> 0:25:58.720 more rural the further out east that you get. And 0:25:58.880 --> 0:26:01.560 yes you have those poets of the places that people 0:26:01.640 --> 0:26:03.840 know about the Hamptons and this that weird thing where 0:26:03.880 --> 0:26:08.920 the wealthy are, but those are their summer homes. Nonetheless, 0:26:09.119 --> 0:26:14.520 it is mostly republican out here, and through redistricting it 0:26:14.600 --> 0:26:18.840