1 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with 2 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: me your girl Danielle Moody, recording back live from our 3 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:23,240 Speaker 1: podstream studios in Times Square. Folks, I cannot stress this 4 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:25,599 Speaker 1: enough and you are going to hear me talk about 5 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen crisis, man made crisis now that this 6 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: country is in. Until we're done, until the ninety three 7 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:37,279 Speaker 1: million Americans that have not yet been vaccinated that are 8 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:42,520 Speaker 1: eligible for vaccination get fucking vaccinated. Here's the thing. What 9 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: we are seeing is an uptick everywhere in all fifty states, 10 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 1: but Florida has become the epicenter for the COVID nineteen vaccine. 11 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: And what I want to read to you guys from 12 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: Routers right now is that what I said and what 13 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: Jonathan has been telling us, is that the longer that 14 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: the delta variant stays in the air right, the longer 15 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: that it is in our atmosphere, the likelihood of it 16 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: mutating again upon itself becomes higher. So in this article 17 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:26,039 Speaker 1: that came out yesterday, it says this for Routers and 18 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: because folks, there is another variant on top of the 19 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: delta variant that is now surging in Peru where it 20 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 1: was first found and in South America. Let me read 21 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:43,119 Speaker 1: this to you. The lambda variant of the coronavirus, first 22 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: identified in Peru and now spreading in South America is 23 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: highly infectious and more resistant to vaccines than the original 24 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: version of the virus that emerged from Wuhan, China. Japanese 25 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: researchers have found in a laboratory experiment, they found that 26 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: three mutations in the lambda spikes protein. I'm not going 27 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:06,559 Speaker 1: to ramble them off to you because they won't matter, 28 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: but help it resist neutralization by vaccine induced antibodies. Two 29 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:17,799 Speaker 1: additional mutations T seven sixty one and L four five 30 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:23,239 Speaker 1: tq helped make landa highly infectious they found. So here 31 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: is the thing. The World Health Organization has said this, folks, 32 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: in a paper posted on Wednesday bio rxiv ahead of 33 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: peer review. The research has warned that the lambda being 34 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: labeled a quote variant of interest by the World Health 35 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: Organization rather than a quote variant of concern, people might 36 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 1: not realize that it is a serious ongoing threat. So, folks, 37 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 1: what I said yesterday, last week and the weeks before 38 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: about where we were headed. Why I have this cold 39 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:04,920 Speaker 1: pit in my stomach about the direction that this country 40 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: is headed with this virus is problematic and everyone should 41 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: be alarmed, even those that are vaccinated, because right now, 42 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 1: with the variants that we are dealing with, the vaccines 43 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: are holding. Yes, there are breakthrough cases, but they're like 44 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: zero point zero one percent one in thirteen hundred people 45 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: that are vaccinated, there will be a breakthrough, right, meaning 46 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 1: that you will have symptoms, can have symptoms, can get sick. 47 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: I've said that I have three friends who have had 48 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 1: breakthrough infections and they were vaccinated right with one of 49 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: them being quite sick, right, like a deep, deep flu. 50 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 1: But thank god he's still here, did not die, did 51 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: not need to go into hospital. Why because he was vaccinated. 52 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: The fact is this lambda is moving. It is on 53 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: the move in South America. It will not take long 54 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: for it to arrive in other countries, namely in the 55 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: United States. Why because all you have to do is 56 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: have one person get on a fucking plane to come here, 57 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: right or drive up in a car or in a train, 58 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 1: or on a fucking boat and arrive here with that virus. 59 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: And what doctor Jonathan Metzel says in the interview that 60 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: we do today is that the delta variant is eight 61 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 1: times infections is the rate, right, meaning this that with 62 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:42,600 Speaker 1: the alpha variant, if somebody was infected with that the original, 63 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 1: they could spread it to up to two three people. 64 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: With the delta variant, one person being infected can spread 65 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: it to eight people. Right. This virus is so incredibly 66 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: fucking contagious that now we're before the alpha variant, you 67 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: needed to be in a room with somebody for ten minutes, 68 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, or what have you. We're talking about five 69 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: second transmission rates. And now we are looking at a 70 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: variant of concern which will turn into an absolute fucking problem. 71 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,359 Speaker 1: Because again, it was just a couple of weeks ago 72 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 1: that we're like, oh, there's this new variant, the delta, 73 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: and it was discovered in some far off place. Oh well, 74 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: we'll just keep an eye out for it, and boom, 75 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: within a few weeks it was in the United States. 76 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:39,239 Speaker 1: So there will only be a few more weeks before 77 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: the lambda variant is here as well. Folks, if you 78 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: are not fucking vaccinated, get fucking vaccinated, right and go 79 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 1: back to wearing masks indoors, And if you cannot eat indoors, 80 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: don't right eat outside. We still have a month or 81 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,479 Speaker 1: so left of summer. I'm going to switch years now, folks, 82 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:08,280 Speaker 1: because I again, I just feel like in so many 83 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: ways that we are just headed in the wrong direction. 84 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:15,479 Speaker 1: And I'm really becoming so concerned about the state of 85 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: our politics, the state of our democracy, just the state 86 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 1: of our compassion. You know, I've been talking about Representative 87 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:27,359 Speaker 1: Corey Bush, who has been camped out in front of 88 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 1: the Capitol, trying to raise awareness and bring concern to 89 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 1: the fact that millions of Americans, seven to ten million 90 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: Americans are in jeopardy of losing their homes because the 91 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 1: moratorium on evictions was allowed to expire. And members of 92 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: Congress you know, just went home on holiday for the 93 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: next several weeks, so they have a home to go 94 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: back to, but millions of Americans are wondering whether or 95 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:55,599 Speaker 1: not they will have a home to go back to. 96 00:06:55,960 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 1: Right we are seeing that this virus, this pandemic, has 97 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: created pandemics. On top of pandemics, economic instability, where people 98 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 1: were already housing insecure and food insecure, has now been 99 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: blown off the charts. And what a member of Congress 100 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: who another member of Congress, one of my favorites, that 101 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 1: joined Representative Corey Bush. On the steps of the Capitol 102 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:33,679 Speaker 1: was Ianna Presley and she said this, and I really 103 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: I want to sit with it for a moment. She said, 104 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: there is not a deficit of resources. There is a 105 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: deficit of empathy. And when she said it, it really 106 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: hit me directly in my heart because it is one 107 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: hundred percent the truth. We have enough money, right, We're 108 00:07:56,160 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: taxed up the wazoo, the middle class, lower income people, 109 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: surely not the fucking rich. Right, because there was an 110 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: article that is so disgusting that was either in Vanity 111 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: Fair or The New Yorker where people that are out 112 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: east in the Hamptons are complaining the rich are complaining 113 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: about the uber rich that they are destroying the Hamptons 114 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: because you know, everything is now priced out of control 115 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: because thanks to Trump's tax cuts, these people have even 116 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: more money to piss away. Right that there are is 117 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 1: fifty dollars bills just kind of floating on the beaches there, right, 118 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 1: because that's how much money people have to waste. You 119 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: see that we have enough money and enough resources to 120 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 1: be able to help all of those people that need help, 121 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:42,559 Speaker 1: but we don't have the fucking political will. We don't 122 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 1: have empathy because while we live in a country that 123 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:51,679 Speaker 1: celebrates applot fucking individual ego dick measuring competitions into space 124 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: of the uber wealthy, we do nothing to help the 125 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 1: least among us. That's your problem, right. We're looking at 126 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: and influx in quote unquote crime and they're saying, well, 127 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: we need more cops. When has more cops ever helped 128 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: any goddamn thing go to the safest neighborhoods in this country? 129 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: Tell me how many cops you see on the street. 130 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: We are reinforcing everything that is bad by not going 131 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 1: to the core, which is fucking greed, right, Greed and 132 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: power is going to be what destroys not only this country, 133 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 1: but the planet. Fires are raging, Flooding is happening, pandemic 134 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 1: is raging, People are losing their homes, lining up for 135 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 1: food pantries. We're gonna be wondering soon enough when we 136 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: go to the grocery store, white tomatoes and cucumbers and 137 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 1: lettuces and milk are going to be off the charts 138 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: and prices because you see, folks, we don't take care 139 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 1: of the fucking environment that we live in. How do 140 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: you think that you're going to be able to get 141 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: your goods. How do you that you're going to be 142 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 1: able to fill up your refrigerator if in fact you 143 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:07,959 Speaker 1: still have a fucking home. Farmers need to know when 144 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,320 Speaker 1: they can plant, right. They need to know that the 145 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: nutrients that they're giving to their livestock aren't contaminated, and 146 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 1: that there's enough those things are. It's all part of 147 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 1: the larger ecosystem that we're not paying attention to at all, 148 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: and instead we're listening to these blowhard politicians that want 149 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: to tell us that, oh, climate change doesn't exist or 150 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: that this is a normal occurrence. How many times do 151 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 1: you have to hear historic fucking numbers, whether it be 152 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: in temperatures or pollution or particles that are in the 153 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 1: air every single goddamn week for folks to recognize, oh, 154 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: this is really going to start to affect our food 155 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: chain and where we're able to get those goods and 156 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: services from. And now, if we can't get that from 157 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:00,120 Speaker 1: the farmers right and the growers here in the United States, 158 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:02,960 Speaker 1: then where do we go. We go everywhere abroad, which 159 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: then allows for there to be more pollution because that 160 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 1: ship has to be brought in on trucks and on 161 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:15,080 Speaker 1: planes and on ships that we refuse to regulate their emissions. 162 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 1: It is a perfect storm that is brewing right now 163 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: that doesn't have to happen, but we have no will. 164 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 1: So Aana Presley is one hundred percent right, the congresswoman 165 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 1: is one hundred percent right. There is not a deficit 166 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 1: of resources. It's not that we don't have enough. It's 167 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 1: that we decide to allocate it only to the wealthy, right, 168 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: because we believe that everyone else is undeserving, that if 169 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: you happen to be poor, that is your problem, as 170 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 1: opposed to the systems that were put in place for 171 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: you to stay that way. I don't understand why it 172 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 1: is so difficult for everyone to connect the dots, or 173 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:02,839 Speaker 1: is it difficult or it's just a performance of ignorance 174 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: at its highest level right now, is what we are seeing. 175 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: These people are telling us, oh, no, send your kids 176 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:12,839 Speaker 1: back to school and do so unmasked, and teachers unions 177 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:14,480 Speaker 1: are saying, no, we're not going to wear a mask, 178 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 1: and we're not going to do this, and we're not 179 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: going to do that. Apparently, we want the freedom and 180 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: the liberty to die and to bring as many people 181 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:24,319 Speaker 1: down with us as possible. We want the freedom and 182 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 1: the liberty to be able to drive our big trucks, 183 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 1: emit as much carbon dioxide, admit as much pollutants into 184 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:34,719 Speaker 1: the air as possible, right, so that then we get 185 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 1: to a place where what we're selling air. It's so 186 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:41,680 Speaker 1: fucking wild to be living in a sci fi novel 187 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 1: that is unfolding every single day and everyone just kind 188 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: of walking around and doing the same shit that they've 189 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: been doing and hoping for a different result. I feel 190 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 1: like the entire globe is insane right now, and we 191 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 1: have some of the worst political leaders our in power 192 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 1: that have these bully pulpits like the de Santisis and 193 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 1: the Abbots that just continue continue to spread misinformation and 194 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 1: fucking bullshit, not just about a rigged election, but about 195 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: apparently a rigged pandemic as well. It's just something that 196 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 1: we've all made up, you know. I just I don't 197 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:31,079 Speaker 1: know how we move out of this space because the 198 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:38,559 Speaker 1: corrosive nature of these lies has spread to the core 199 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:42,559 Speaker 1: of who we are. It is become an identity for 200 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:46,320 Speaker 1: people right to be an anti vaxer, to be an 201 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 1: anti masker, is become a core of who they are. 202 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:54,200 Speaker 1: And when people dig down that deep being able to 203 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:57,080 Speaker 1: change their mind or even open their eyes up to 204 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: an alternative not alternative facts, right, but the truth. We 205 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 1: have weaponized truth, so you don't know who to believe 206 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 1: because everybody has an alternative goal. Coming up next, friends, 207 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: is our good friend, our in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel, 208 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 1: to give us the rundown on the latest with COVID nineteen, 209 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: the delta variant, and what we need to be paying 210 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: attention to folks. I am always so happy when we 211 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: have the opportunity to have our friend, our in house doctor, 212 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: doctor Jonathan Metzel with us to walk us through the twisty, 213 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 1: windy road of COVID nineteen, which, thank God, Jonathan, for 214 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: you over the past year and a half, because I 215 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 1: don't know how we would be navigating through. I want 216 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 1: to talk about a couple of things, because, first of all, 217 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: I want to say that I believe that the mainstream 218 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: media has done doctors, scientists, health workers a complete and 219 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: total disservice by running with this narrative that we were 220 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: post COVID for the last couple of months and now 221 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: only making the pivot as things start to get really bad. 222 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: The United States has hit thirty five million new cases 223 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: of COVID nineteen, with the concentration of that being in Texas, 224 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: in Florida, and in California, Florida being the world's epicenter 225 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 1: right now for COVID nineteen, the Delta variant, And now 226 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 1: the media is making their pivot and saying, oh, well, 227 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 1: you know, I guess that it's not done, and now 228 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 1: going back to bringing their experts and their doctors back on. 229 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 1: What do you think about the way this resurgence is 230 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: being covered, What do you think about it and the 231 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 1: way in which the CDC has been completely and totally 232 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 1: politicized by the right. Well, you know, it's funny because 233 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 1: I don't know what the media is anymore, right, the 234 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: whole idea that, I mean, in a world other than 235 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 1: our own, like prior worlds, like you know, of this country, 236 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 1: there was an authoritative media that people turn to to 237 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 1: get health information. But now it's kind of like you 238 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: can listen to any media that just supports your position. 239 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:24,600 Speaker 1: So there is no such thing as the media. I 240 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: mean there is, but obviously, but so part of the 241 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:29,680 Speaker 1: issue is, you know, so I don't know, I mean, 242 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: I just like I just couldn't see a media narrative 243 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: stronger than get vaccinated. And even then half the people 244 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 1: don't agree with it. And so certainly there's been a 245 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: lot of up and down. And as you and I 246 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: talked about last week, part of the up and down 247 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 1: is just that the media. It's the media is not 248 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 1: just causal, right, they're reflective. They're reflecting a shifting terrain, right. 249 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 1: And I think initially, you know, it was human nature, 250 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:57,120 Speaker 1: like we had what was called the alpha variant before, 251 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: a slow moving relatively we didn't realize coronavirus. The vaccines 252 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:05,679 Speaker 1: were treating it. You thought, we thought that the vaccines 253 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 1: the key thing, and we talked about this last week. 254 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,479 Speaker 1: We didn't know that people vaccinated could actually pass on 255 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 1: the virus. But now we're finding out that with the 256 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 1: delta variant, it's just basically the mutation from hell. It 257 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:21,679 Speaker 1: really is, and and so, and no disrespect to the 258 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:25,679 Speaker 1: other mutations of the coronavirus, but this one really is 259 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:29,439 Speaker 1: just terrible in every possible way. You catch it in 260 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:32,879 Speaker 1: five seconds. It hangs in the air, you know, you 261 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 1: just get it in a flash. It's worse, it's got 262 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: a higher viral load. And so part of what we 263 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 1: saw before was the media reflecting what was thought to 264 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 1: be a general optimism that we were going to be 265 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: able to reopen and stuff like that. And I don't 266 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:50,480 Speaker 1: blame them for anyone really for covering those stories, because 267 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 1: that's kind of how we were all feeling like we 268 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 1: needed a bit of hope and optimism. The problem is done. 269 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 1: Things changed with the delta variant, and it's really just 270 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,680 Speaker 1: taken us conceptually. I mean, even me, I study this stuff, 271 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 1: I teach about it. It's taken me a couple months 272 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: just to understand the enormity of this mutation. And I'm 273 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,440 Speaker 1: still coming to terms with it myself. So I would 274 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 1: say that there's been a slow change, but that's also 275 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 1: impacting scientists, it's impacting politicians, I guess overall. I mean, 276 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:23,040 Speaker 1: I saw today over seventy percent of Americans are at least, 277 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 1: you know, over eighteen or haven't had at least one shot. 278 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 1: You know. We wouldn't have thought that six months ago. 279 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:33,239 Speaker 1: So there are things happening. But again, the shift for 280 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 1: me is that this delta variant is just it's just 281 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: such a curveball from everything else we thought we knew. 282 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:44,840 Speaker 1: That's it for Today's Woke, a f daily podcast to 283 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:49,119 Speaker 1: hear more from me, do subscribe and get five hour 284 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 1: long shows each and every week at patreon dot com. 285 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: Slash Woke a f Power to the people and to 286 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:01,359 Speaker 1: all the people. Power, get woke and day woke as fuck.