WEBVTT - Things Aren't Getting Better 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:14.680 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:18.480 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from our podstream 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.200 studios in Times Square. Folks, I don't know how to 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:26.920 tell you this, but things are not getting any better. 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:31.160 They're actually getting worse as it pertains to the pandemic. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:34.640 And now there's this meme going around and it says 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.800 on one side, let's say, on the left hand side, 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.200 it says my fall plans, and then on the right 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:44.760 hand side is the delta variants. And we are seeing 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:49.479 a myriad of them break out all over Instagram and Twitter, 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:53.559 and just think of you know, Game of Thrones or 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:57.160 this is us and like the Father and the croc pot, 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:00.960 essentially all of these memes signify one thing, which is 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.800 that the majority of us, while we're trying to make 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:08.120 light of the disaster that has headed our way, everyone 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:12.920 recognizes that the Delta plus variant that is now rampant 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:17.120 around this country and is ravaging the hot spot virus 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.600 areas and hot spots, not because they need it to be, 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.640 but because they have governors that just don't give a 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:27.640 fuck about their constituents. And they have because they have 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.920 governors that just don't give a fuck about their constituents. 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.400 They have very low vaccination rates. And what do low 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.280 vaccination rates mean. They mean that you're going to have 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:41.760 high hospitalization rates with the delta plus variant that is 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:46.840 way more contagious than the alpha. And what is frustrating 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:52.080 is this is that all you have to do, folks, 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:56.720 is adapt with the knowledge that we are getting in. Okay, 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:00.840 this is not a static situation, and yet you have 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:05.800 these Republican governors acting like it is or pretty much 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.600 doing what they did in twenty twenty, which is believing 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.200 it's a hoax. And it doesn't matter. If you look 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:15.079 at the cover of every paper right now, they are 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:19.080 talking about two states in particular. They are talking about 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:23.200 Texas and they are talking about Florida. Why because those 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.320 are our hot fucking epicenters. And you know, the other 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.200 day I had somebody tell me that they were fucking 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.120 going to Disney World, and I'm like, what is wrong 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:36.440 with you? Like, of all the fucking places to visit 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:40.960 right now, Florida and Texas ain't fucking is okay? And 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.760 I don't care if you are vaccinated or not. Because 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.720 what I talked about on yesterday's show is that I 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:51.399 believe that breakthrough cases are higher, right based on what 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:55.760 Eric Toppelhood said, the scientists that breakthroughs are higher. But 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.600 here is the thing through the vaccine. But here is 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:02.280 the thing. You're not going to fucking die. So remember 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.839 in twenty twenty when you were washing your fucking cardboard 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.600 box of cereal because you thought that the coronavirus was 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.720 on it. And remember when we were washing our hands 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.160 until they bled because we didn't know what to do 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.679 when we were trying to stay inside. Well, we don't 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:19.799 do a lot of those things. No, you should still 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.920 be washing your hands, but we're not washing cardboard boxes, 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.280 we're not washing our groceries because we learned more about 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:30.480 the virus and so we adapted. Similarly, Now, what we 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:34.160 are learning is that yes, there are breakthrough infections of COVID, 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.040 but those folks that have the vaccine are not going 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:42.400 to be hospitalized and are less likely to fall completely 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:45.920 and totally ill, which means that you then won't be 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:50.640 susceptible to long term, long haul or long term COVID, 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:55.480 which is that some people are having symptoms or issues 0:03:56.240 --> 0:04:00.800 long after the COVID infection is quote unquote done they 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:05.360 are having heart issues, lung issues, memory fog. All of 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:09.480 these things are happening because the virus acts differently in 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:14.480 everybody's body. So why again, would you not be on 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:19.880 every loudspeaker, on every channel, on every station telling your constituents, 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.400 if you actually gave a fuck about them and their lives, 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:27.320 go and get the vaccine. So here we are right now, 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:32.400 Washington Post article, and this is again focusing on Florida 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:37.960 hospitals struggle with staff shortages in coronavirus hotspots. I feel 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:42.920 like we are asking way to fucking much of our 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:47.240 health professionals these days. We are telling them to risk life, 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.920 to work twenty hour, twenty four hour or beyond shifts 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.680 to save people's lives. That now we have a vaccine 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:58.440 that could very well save their life. People that are 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:02.480 laying on gurneys now gasping for air and asking a 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.599 doctor or a nurse for the vaccine. Well, guess what, 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.919 it's too fucking late. And I think to myself, what 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.240 a thankless, fucking job it is right now to be 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:16.040 a healthcare professional in this country. When you are being 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:19.640 screamed at and threatened for doing your job. You know 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.240 the oath that you took to do no harm, to 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:26.000 protect people, and now you are being threatened, your life, 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:30.200 being threatened for doing so. You know, our politicians also 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.720 took an oath. They also took an oath when they 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:37.400 enter into office to uphold the constitution, to uphold our democracy. 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.480 And we can see that that oath means absolute shit 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:44.160 to the Republican Party right now. And again I ask, 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.800 where are the lawsuits against de Satan and against Abbott? 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.760 Why aren't we holding these people criminally liable for the 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:55.680 decisions that they are making that are impacting millions of 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:59.479 people within their state. You have parents that are being 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.240 forced those that want to keep their kids safe, that 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.480 are being forced into a position where they have no alternative. 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:09.080 It's either they homeschool their kid completely because remote learning 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.200 is no longer an option because now we have to 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.479 open up schools regardless of the new information that we 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.760 are getting. I just don't understand why we are not 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.800 in a place where we're able to adapt to the 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:27.279 information that is coming in right. It doesn't make any sense, 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.120 But this is where we are, and so this is 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:34.520 what this report is saying. Just north of Miami, COVID 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:39.159 nineteen patients are flooding into the six Broward County hospitals 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:43.600 run by Memorial Healthcare System as Florida is being slammed 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:48.599 with the highest rate of coronavirus admissions in the country. 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:54.040 Memorial has enough beds, they say, but not so with nurses. 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.839 The hospital system has scrambled to hire four hundred and 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:02.200 thirty nine travel nurses as far away as Alaska, and 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.200 it is offering some of its own nurses well paid, 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:08.840 short term contracts to compete with the appeal of working 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.600 for lucrative outside agencies. It is beginning to pause some 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:17.320 elective surgeries to shift staff to patients sick with COVID nineteen, 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:22.560 the illness caused by the coronavirus. Even so, the article says, 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:28.520 the large public healthcare system has about seven hundred nursing 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:35.000 vacancies seven hundred and I wonder why that is, because 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:37.760 do you know how many doctors and nurses we lost 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:42.360 to COVID nineteen that risk their own lives to save ours, 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.080 And when we have the ability to now be vaccinated 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:51.560 right now, basically we are just thumbing our fingers in 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.400 their nose and saying, well, fuck it, you keep working 0:07:55.440 --> 0:08:00.600 for us, you keep risking everything and telling you I 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.679 know that in some places doctors, nurses, and other healthcare 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.760 professionals administrators get paid a lot of money, but in 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:11.120 others they do not. And so there's no wonder why 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.760 they are vacancies right now, because who wants to sign 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:21.120 up to risk their lives right to be working twenty 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:26.440 four hours a day for a community that doesn't appreciate them, 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.240 for a community that not only doesn't appreciate you, but 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:35.120 has now made you the target of harassment or violence, right, 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:38.400 Because that's where this is headed. You see these people 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.440 that I mentioned yesterday in Tennessee, that we're screaming and 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:46.760 threatening healthcare professionals for having the audacity to go in 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.719 and provide them with a briefing as to why their 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:53.000 children should be wearing masks in schools, as to why 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:57.400 mask mandates are necessary, as to why The more information 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:01.600 that we learn about this new variant, right, the better 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.160 equipped that we are to be able to deal with 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:08.200 it so that we can stop the spread. You see 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.880 the situation that we are in right now, that some 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:14.320 states find themselves in right now, it's bullshit because they 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.680 don't have to be here, right, but they have decided 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:21.600 to be pro death. They have decided to be pro pandemic. 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.040 Never in my life did I think that we would 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:27.199 get to a space where the quote unquote pro life 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:32.360 party is advocating for the death of their own. But 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.760 that's where we are, because what else, how else can 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:40.120 you look at this situation when you have Texas schools 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:45.000 and Florida schools now risking their own financial stability and 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:49.079 well being in order to go against their governors mandates 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:51.960 in order to keep people safe. Because here's the thing, folks, 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.679 this Satan and Abbott ain't sitting in nobody's fucking classroom. 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.800 They don't know these kids. They don't know these administrators, 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.080 they don't know the caustodial word workers, the lunch people. 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.840 They know none of these people. They're not interfacing with 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.360 them on a regular basis. They're just statistics. They're just 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.200 pawns in a larger game for them to own the 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:15.840 fucking libs. But those members of the school board, those 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:19.920 administrators and principles, they are the ones that are going 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.560 to have to have days of remembrance for the staff 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.079 that they begin to lose, for the children that they 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:30.800 begin to lose from their community. Right now these Republicans 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.559 are just using these people as a fucking pawn. They 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.880 want to show clippets of videos of people being like, 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.600 I want no mask because I want the ability to 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.440 die and spread fucking disease. It reminds me right they 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.920 you know, these motherfuckers are descendant from the fucking Mayflower, 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.839 right because they came in with their fucking small pox too, 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:55.360 killed a whole group of Native Americans and didn't give 0:10:55.400 --> 0:11:00.240 a fuck. It's amazing to me that as much time 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.440 passes as innovative we're in the twenty first century, as 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.600 much time passes, as as much information as we have 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.240 at our fingertips, information is going to be what fucks 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:14.679 us and why because the media allowed for us to 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:18.160 create both sides is um on every fucking issue when 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.640 there aren't both sides, two sides to every goddamn issue. 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:26.640 There isn't a two sides to the issue of mass 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.360 Either you want to live and you want the people 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:33.280 around you to live and be healthy, or you do not, Right, 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.680 there are not two sides of this debate. But you 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.440 see the way that the media creates these scenarios is 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.560 creating some type of cage match because it's good for 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:47.320 their fucking ratings, but it's not good for you. And 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:51.000 so unless we ask people for accountability, unless we demand 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:55.600 excuse me, let's not ask. We're past asking. Unless we 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:59.360 demand accountability and transparency, these motherfuckers are going to keep 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:05.920 keeping on because they can. I look at these reports 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:13.040 right now and I am literally beside myself. You have 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:17.360 California being the first state, the entirety of the state, 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:22.080 that is mandating that all teachers, all administrators in the 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:27.680 state of California be vaccinated or get tested weekly. And frankly, 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:31.040 here's the thing. I don't think that weekly testing is enough, 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:35.440 not when we are talking about a new variant of 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:40.840 the virus that can be contracted in five seconds. So 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.240 if you are not vaccinated, you step out to your 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:48.480 front door, boom, you go into an uber boom, you 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:52.320 wave to your neighbor right and as they're passing you 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:57.280 on the sidewalk, boom. So, frankly, to me, if you 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.480 really want to get people, they need to be tested 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.560 every fucking day, and at the beginning of the day 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.360 and at the end of the day, every single day. 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:12.880 Make it unfucking comfortable for people not to be vaccinated. 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.280 That's what New York City is doing. That's what a 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.800 lot of places are doing so instead of even though 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:24.120 I disagree that we should still reinstitute indoor mask mandates everywhere, 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:30.319 but in the decision that was made by Mayor Deblasio 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.080 here in New York, it was, Okay, we're not going 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.040 to reinstitute indoor mask mandates, but what we are going 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:40.680 to do is institute vaccination mandates. Which is this in 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:45.560 that if you are not vaccinated and show a vaccine card, 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.719 you are no longer allowed to eat indoors, work out indoors, 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:55.000 go to theaters, do basically anything inside. I went out 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.959 over the weekend last weekend, and for the first time 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.600 I was asked by the host because I wanted to 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:04.440 sit indoors too, please, and she says, great, can I 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:08.680 see your vaccination card? Now, what we also know is 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.480 that capitalism and fuckery is going to always be at 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:15.480 play here. So imagine this that we are in a 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:21.000 place where people are selling fraudulent vaccination cards for fifty dollars. 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.240 So you're paying fifty dollars for some shit that is 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:28.560 actually fucking free. How stupid are you do you think 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.000 to be able to do that? So here's this free 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.440 thing that we are giving you that is going to 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.520 save your fucking life. But you would rather pay fifty 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:42.040 to one hundred dollars for some fraudulent shit and risk dying. Yeah, 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:48.360 you are a true winner, my friend. Well done. I 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:54.119 will leave you all with this. It is more important 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:58.840 than ever to recognize the signs of burnout, to recognize 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:03.640 the signs of depress and anxiety, and do what it 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:09.160 is necessary in order to take care of yourself. It 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.600 is imperative that we do that because no one is 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:16.960 going to be looking after us, right I talk about 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.240 self care. I also next week on the show, we'll 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.680 be talking to other people about healing and what it 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.200 means to move from a place of self care, which 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:30.560 are tactics that are important, like meditation, like yoga, like exercise, 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.160 and move to a place of what it means to 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:40.640 actually heal, right, to be in a healed space. And 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.800 part of that is recognizing what no longer serves us 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:49.360 and letting that go. And so, folks, I hope that 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.600 you enjoy the myriad of interviews that I have next week. 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.920 I am talking to some incredible folks. We will be 0:15:55.960 --> 0:16:01.560 talking with our friend Glenn Kirshner Yasmin Vesuki in from MSNBC. 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:06.160 We will be talking with astrologer Tracy L. Rogers. We 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:10.320 will be talking with some incredible, incredible people that are 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:14.800 doing amazing work with plants, with horticulture and trying to 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:18.400 build community. And I hope that you will listen, you 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.840 will learn, you will take a break next week as well. 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.040 I will be back in the seat with all of 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:34.080 you next week and back in the mess. That is 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.800 it for Today's Woke, a f daily podcast to hear 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.440 more from me, including five full hour long shows every 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:44.000 single week, exclusive guests, interviews, and more. Support me on 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.880 Patreon at Patreon dot com. Slash Woke a f power 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.560 to the people and to all the people. Power, get 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:52.360 woke and stay woke as fuck.