Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from our podstream
Speaker 1: studios in Times Square. Folks, I don't know how to
Speaker 1: tell you this, but things are not getting any better.
Speaker 1: They're actually getting worse as it pertains to the pandemic.
Speaker 1: And now there's this meme going around and it says
Speaker 1: on one side, let's say, on the left hand side,
Speaker 1: it says my fall plans, and then on the right
Speaker 1: hand side is the delta variants. And we are seeing
Speaker 1: a myriad of them break out all over Instagram and Twitter,
Speaker 1: and just think of you know, Game of Thrones or
Speaker 1: this is us and like the Father and the croc pot,
Speaker 1: essentially all of these memes signify one thing, which is
Speaker 1: that the majority of us, while we're trying to make
Speaker 1: light of the disaster that has headed our way, everyone
Speaker 1: recognizes that the Delta plus variant that is now rampant
Speaker 1: around this country and is ravaging the hot spot virus
Speaker 1: areas and hot spots, not because they need it to be,
Speaker 1: but because they have governors that just don't give a
Speaker 1: fuck about their constituents. And they have because they have
Speaker 1: governors that just don't give a fuck about their constituents.
Speaker 1: They have very low vaccination rates. And what do low
Speaker 1: vaccination rates mean. They mean that you're going to have
Speaker 1: high hospitalization rates with the delta plus variant that is
Speaker 1: way more contagious than the alpha. And what is frustrating
Speaker 1: is this is that all you have to do, folks,
Speaker 1: is adapt with the knowledge that we are getting in. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is not a static situation, and yet you have
Speaker 1: these Republican governors acting like it is or pretty much
Speaker 1: doing what they did in twenty twenty, which is believing
Speaker 1: it's a hoax. And it doesn't matter. If you look
Speaker 1: at the cover of every paper right now, they are
Speaker 1: talking about two states in particular. They are talking about
Speaker 1: Texas and they are talking about Florida. Why because those
Speaker 1: are our hot fucking epicenters. And you know, the other
Speaker 1: day I had somebody tell me that they were fucking
Speaker 1: going to Disney World, and I'm like, what is wrong
Speaker 1: with you? Like, of all the fucking places to visit
Speaker 1: right now, Florida and Texas ain't fucking is okay? And
Speaker 1: I don't care if you are vaccinated or not. Because
Speaker 1: what I talked about on yesterday's show is that I
Speaker 1: believe that breakthrough cases are higher, right based on what
Speaker 1: Eric Toppelhood said, the scientists that breakthroughs are higher. But
Speaker 1: here is the thing through the vaccine. But here is
Speaker 1: the thing. You're not going to fucking die. So remember
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty when you were washing your fucking cardboard
Speaker 1: box of cereal because you thought that the coronavirus was
Speaker 1: on it. And remember when we were washing our hands
Speaker 1: until they bled because we didn't know what to do
Speaker 1: when we were trying to stay inside. Well, we don't
Speaker 1: do a lot of those things. No, you should still
Speaker 1: be washing your hands, but we're not washing cardboard boxes,
Speaker 1: we're not washing our groceries because we learned more about
Speaker 1: the virus and so we adapted. Similarly, Now, what we
Speaker 1: are learning is that yes, there are breakthrough infections of COVID,
Speaker 1: but those folks that have the vaccine are not going
Speaker 1: to be hospitalized and are less likely to fall completely
Speaker 1: and totally ill, which means that you then won't be
Speaker 1: susceptible to long term, long haul or long term COVID,
Speaker 1: which is that some people are having symptoms or issues
Speaker 1: long after the COVID infection is quote unquote done they
Speaker 1: are having heart issues, lung issues, memory fog. All of
Speaker 1: these things are happening because the virus acts differently in
Speaker 1: everybody's body. So why again, would you not be on
Speaker 1: every loudspeaker, on every channel, on every station telling your constituents,
Speaker 1: if you actually gave a fuck about them and their lives,
Speaker 1: go and get the vaccine. So here we are right now,
Speaker 1: Washington Post article, and this is again focusing on Florida
Speaker 1: hospitals struggle with staff shortages in coronavirus hotspots. I feel
Speaker 1: like we are asking way to fucking much of our
Speaker 1: health professionals these days. We are telling them to risk life,
Speaker 1: to work twenty hour, twenty four hour or beyond shifts
Speaker 1: to save people's lives. That now we have a vaccine
Speaker 1: that could very well save their life. People that are
Speaker 1: laying on gurneys now gasping for air and asking a
Speaker 1: doctor or a nurse for the vaccine. Well, guess what,
Speaker 1: it's too fucking late. And I think to myself, what
Speaker 1: a thankless, fucking job it is right now to be
Speaker 1: a healthcare professional in this country. When you are being
Speaker 1: screamed at and threatened for doing your job. You know
Speaker 1: the oath that you took to do no harm, to
Speaker 1: protect people, and now you are being threatened, your life,
Speaker 1: being threatened for doing so. You know, our politicians also
Speaker 1: took an oath. They also took an oath when they
Speaker 1: enter into office to uphold the constitution, to uphold our democracy.
Speaker 1: And we can see that that oath means absolute shit
Speaker 1: to the Republican Party right now. And again I ask,
Speaker 1: where are the lawsuits against de Satan and against Abbott?
Speaker 1: Why aren't we holding these people criminally liable for the
Speaker 1: decisions that they are making that are impacting millions of
Speaker 1: people within their state. You have parents that are being
Speaker 1: forced those that want to keep their kids safe, that
Speaker 1: are being forced into a position where they have no alternative.
Speaker 1: It's either they homeschool their kid completely because remote learning
Speaker 1: is no longer an option because now we have to
Speaker 1: open up schools regardless of the new information that we
Speaker 1: are getting. I just don't understand why we are not
Speaker 1: in a place where we're able to adapt to the
Speaker 1: information that is coming in right. It doesn't make any sense,
Speaker 1: But this is where we are, and so this is
Speaker 1: what this report is saying. Just north of Miami, COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen patients are flooding into the six Broward County hospitals
Speaker 1: run by Memorial Healthcare System as Florida is being slammed
Speaker 1: with the highest rate of coronavirus admissions in the country.
Speaker 1: Memorial has enough beds, they say, but not so with nurses.
Speaker 1: The hospital system has scrambled to hire four hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty nine travel nurses as far away as Alaska, and
Speaker 1: it is offering some of its own nurses well paid,
Speaker 1: short term contracts to compete with the appeal of working
Speaker 1: for lucrative outside agencies. It is beginning to pause some
Speaker 1: elective surgeries to shift staff to patients sick with COVID nineteen,
Speaker 1: the illness caused by the coronavirus. Even so, the article says,
Speaker 1: the large public healthcare system has about seven hundred nursing
Speaker 1: vacancies seven hundred and I wonder why that is, because
Speaker 1: do you know how many doctors and nurses we lost
Speaker 1: to COVID nineteen that risk their own lives to save ours,
Speaker 1: And when we have the ability to now be vaccinated
Speaker 1: right now, basically we are just thumbing our fingers in
Speaker 1: their nose and saying, well, fuck it, you keep working
Speaker 1: for us, you keep risking everything and telling you I
Speaker 1: know that in some places doctors, nurses, and other healthcare
Speaker 1: professionals administrators get paid a lot of money, but in
Speaker 1: others they do not. And so there's no wonder why
Speaker 1: they are vacancies right now, because who wants to sign
Speaker 1: up to risk their lives right to be working twenty
Speaker 1: four hours a day for a community that doesn't appreciate them,
Speaker 1: for a community that not only doesn't appreciate you, but
Speaker 1: has now made you the target of harassment or violence, right,
Speaker 1: Because that's where this is headed. You see these people
Speaker 1: that I mentioned yesterday in Tennessee, that we're screaming and
Speaker 1: threatening healthcare professionals for having the audacity to go in
Speaker 1: and provide them with a briefing as to why their
Speaker 1: children should be wearing masks in schools, as to why
Speaker 1: mask mandates are necessary, as to why The more information
Speaker 1: that we learn about this new variant, right, the better
Speaker 1: equipped that we are to be able to deal with
Speaker 1: it so that we can stop the spread. You see
Speaker 1: the situation that we are in right now, that some
Speaker 1: states find themselves in right now, it's bullshit because they
Speaker 1: don't have to be here, right, but they have decided
Speaker 1: to be pro death. They have decided to be pro pandemic.
Speaker 1: Never in my life did I think that we would
Speaker 1: get to a space where the quote unquote pro life
Speaker 1: party is advocating for the death of their own. But
Speaker 1: that's where we are, because what else, how else can
Speaker 1: you look at this situation when you have Texas schools
Speaker 1: and Florida schools now risking their own financial stability and
Speaker 1: well being in order to go against their governors mandates
Speaker 1: in order to keep people safe. Because here's the thing, folks,
Speaker 1: this Satan and Abbott ain't sitting in nobody's fucking classroom.
Speaker 1: They don't know these kids. They don't know these administrators,
Speaker 1: they don't know the caustodial word workers, the lunch people.
Speaker 1: They know none of these people. They're not interfacing with
Speaker 1: them on a regular basis. They're just statistics. They're just
Speaker 1: pawns in a larger game for them to own the
Speaker 1: fucking libs. But those members of the school board, those
Speaker 1: administrators and principles, they are the ones that are going
Speaker 1: to have to have days of remembrance for the staff
Speaker 1: that they begin to lose, for the children that they
Speaker 1: begin to lose from their community. Right now these Republicans
Speaker 1: are just using these people as a fucking pawn. They
Speaker 1: want to show clippets of videos of people being like,
Speaker 1: I want no mask because I want the ability to
Speaker 1: die and spread fucking disease. It reminds me right they
Speaker 1: you know, these motherfuckers are descendant from the fucking Mayflower,
Speaker 1: right because they came in with their fucking small pox too,
Speaker 1: killed a whole group of Native Americans and didn't give
Speaker 1: a fuck. It's amazing to me that as much time
Speaker 1: passes as innovative we're in the twenty first century, as
Speaker 1: much time passes, as as much information as we have
Speaker 1: at our fingertips, information is going to be what fucks
Speaker 1: us and why because the media allowed for us to
Speaker 1: create both sides is um on every fucking issue when
Speaker 1: there aren't both sides, two sides to every goddamn issue.
Speaker 1: There isn't a two sides to the issue of mass
Speaker 1: Either you want to live and you want the people
Speaker 1: around you to live and be healthy, or you do not, Right,
Speaker 1: there are not two sides of this debate. But you
Speaker 1: see the way that the media creates these scenarios is
Speaker 1: creating some type of cage match because it's good for
Speaker 1: their fucking ratings, but it's not good for you. And
Speaker 1: so unless we ask people for accountability, unless we demand
Speaker 1: excuse me, let's not ask. We're past asking. Unless we
Speaker 1: demand accountability and transparency, these motherfuckers are going to keep
Speaker 1: keeping on because they can. I look at these reports
Speaker 1: right now and I am literally beside myself. You have
Speaker 1: California being the first state, the entirety of the state,
Speaker 1: that is mandating that all teachers, all administrators in the
Speaker 1: state of California be vaccinated or get tested weekly. And frankly,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. I don't think that weekly testing is enough,
Speaker 1: not when we are talking about a new variant of
Speaker 1: the virus that can be contracted in five seconds. So
Speaker 1: if you are not vaccinated, you step out to your
Speaker 1: front door, boom, you go into an uber boom, you
Speaker 1: wave to your neighbor right and as they're passing you
Speaker 1: on the sidewalk, boom. So, frankly, to me, if you
Speaker 1: really want to get people, they need to be tested
Speaker 1: every fucking day, and at the beginning of the day
Speaker 1: and at the end of the day, every single day.
Speaker 1: Make it unfucking comfortable for people not to be vaccinated.
Speaker 1: That's what New York City is doing. That's what a
Speaker 1: lot of places are doing so instead of even though
Speaker 1: I disagree that we should still reinstitute indoor mask mandates everywhere,
Speaker 1: but in the decision that was made by Mayor Deblasio
Speaker 1: here in New York, it was, Okay, we're not going
Speaker 1: to reinstitute indoor mask mandates, but what we are going
Speaker 1: to do is institute vaccination mandates. Which is this in
Speaker 1: that if you are not vaccinated and show a vaccine card,
Speaker 1: you are no longer allowed to eat indoors, work out indoors,
Speaker 1: go to theaters, do basically anything inside. I went out
Speaker 1: over the weekend last weekend, and for the first time
Speaker 1: I was asked by the host because I wanted to
Speaker 1: sit indoors too, please, and she says, great, can I
Speaker 1: see your vaccination card? Now, what we also know is
Speaker 1: that capitalism and fuckery is going to always be at
Speaker 1: play here. So imagine this that we are in a
Speaker 1: place where people are selling fraudulent vaccination cards for fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: So you're paying fifty dollars for some shit that is
Speaker 1: actually fucking free. How stupid are you do you think
Speaker 1: to be able to do that? So here's this free
Speaker 1: thing that we are giving you that is going to
Speaker 1: save your fucking life. But you would rather pay fifty
Speaker 1: to one hundred dollars for some fraudulent shit and risk dying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you are a true winner, my friend. Well done. I
Speaker 1: will leave you all with this. It is more important
Speaker 1: than ever to recognize the signs of burnout, to recognize
Speaker 1: the signs of depress and anxiety, and do what it
Speaker 1: is necessary in order to take care of yourself. It
Speaker 1: is imperative that we do that because no one is
Speaker 1: going to be looking after us, right I talk about
Speaker 1: self care. I also next week on the show, we'll
Speaker 1: be talking to other people about healing and what it
Speaker 1: means to move from a place of self care, which
Speaker 1: are tactics that are important, like meditation, like yoga, like exercise,
Speaker 1: and move to a place of what it means to
Speaker 1: actually heal, right, to be in a healed space. And
Speaker 1: part of that is recognizing what no longer serves us
Speaker 1: and letting that go. And so, folks, I hope that
Speaker 1: you enjoy the myriad of interviews that I have next week.
Speaker 1: I am talking to some incredible folks. We will be
Speaker 1: talking with our friend Glenn Kirshner Yasmin Vesuki in from MSNBC.
Speaker 1: We will be talking with astrologer Tracy L. Rogers. We
Speaker 1: will be talking with some incredible, incredible people that are
Speaker 1: doing amazing work with plants, with horticulture and trying to
Speaker 1: build community. And I hope that you will listen, you
Speaker 1: will learn, you will take a break next week as well.
Speaker 1: I will be back in the seat with all of
Speaker 1: you next week and back in the mess. That is
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