Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with
Speaker 1: me your girl Danielle Moody, recording back live from our
Speaker 1: podstream studios in Times Square. Folks, I cannot stress this
Speaker 1: enough and you are going to hear me talk about
Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen crisis, man made crisis now that this
Speaker 1: country is in. Until we're done, until the ninety three
Speaker 1: million Americans that have not yet been vaccinated that are
Speaker 1: eligible for vaccination get fucking vaccinated. Here's the thing. What
Speaker 1: we are seeing is an uptick everywhere in all fifty states,
Speaker 1: but Florida has become the epicenter for the COVID nineteen vaccine.
Speaker 1: And what I want to read to you guys from
Speaker 1: Routers right now is that what I said and what
Speaker 1: Jonathan has been telling us, is that the longer that
Speaker 1: the delta variant stays in the air right, the longer
Speaker 1: that it is in our atmosphere, the likelihood of it
Speaker 1: mutating again upon itself becomes higher. So in this article
Speaker 1: that came out yesterday, it says this for Routers and
Speaker 1: because folks, there is another variant on top of the
Speaker 1: delta variant that is now surging in Peru where it
Speaker 1: was first found and in South America. Let me read
Speaker 1: this to you. The lambda variant of the coronavirus, first
Speaker 1: identified in Peru and now spreading in South America is
Speaker 1: highly infectious and more resistant to vaccines than the original
Speaker 1: version of the virus that emerged from Wuhan, China. Japanese
Speaker 1: researchers have found in a laboratory experiment, they found that
Speaker 1: three mutations in the lambda spikes protein. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to ramble them off to you because they won't matter,
Speaker 1: but help it resist neutralization by vaccine induced antibodies. Two
Speaker 1: additional mutations T seven sixty one and L four five
Speaker 1: tq helped make landa highly infectious they found. So here
Speaker 1: is the thing. The World Health Organization has said this, folks,
Speaker 1: in a paper posted on Wednesday bio rxiv ahead of
Speaker 1: peer review. The research has warned that the lambda being
Speaker 1: labeled a quote variant of interest by the World Health
Speaker 1: Organization rather than a quote variant of concern, people might
Speaker 1: not realize that it is a serious ongoing threat. So, folks,
Speaker 1: what I said yesterday, last week and the weeks before
Speaker 1: about where we were headed. Why I have this cold
Speaker 1: pit in my stomach about the direction that this country
Speaker 1: is headed with this virus is problematic and everyone should
Speaker 1: be alarmed, even those that are vaccinated, because right now,
Speaker 1: with the variants that we are dealing with, the vaccines
Speaker 1: are holding. Yes, there are breakthrough cases, but they're like
Speaker 1: zero point zero one percent one in thirteen hundred people
Speaker 1: that are vaccinated, there will be a breakthrough, right, meaning
Speaker 1: that you will have symptoms, can have symptoms, can get sick.
Speaker 1: I've said that I have three friends who have had
Speaker 1: breakthrough infections and they were vaccinated right with one of
Speaker 1: them being quite sick, right, like a deep, deep flu.
Speaker 1: But thank god he's still here, did not die, did
Speaker 1: not need to go into hospital. Why because he was vaccinated.
Speaker 1: The fact is this lambda is moving. It is on
Speaker 1: the move in South America. It will not take long
Speaker 1: for it to arrive in other countries, namely in the
Speaker 1: United States. Why because all you have to do is
Speaker 1: have one person get on a fucking plane to come here,
Speaker 1: right or drive up in a car or in a train,
Speaker 1: or on a fucking boat and arrive here with that virus.
Speaker 1: And what doctor Jonathan Metzel says in the interview that
Speaker 1: we do today is that the delta variant is eight
Speaker 1: times infections is the rate, right, meaning this that with
Speaker 1: the alpha variant, if somebody was infected with that the original,
Speaker 1: they could spread it to up to two three people.
Speaker 1: With the delta variant, one person being infected can spread
Speaker 1: it to eight people. Right. This virus is so incredibly
Speaker 1: fucking contagious that now we're before the alpha variant, you
Speaker 1: needed to be in a room with somebody for ten minutes,
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, or what have you. We're talking about five
Speaker 1: second transmission rates. And now we are looking at a
Speaker 1: variant of concern which will turn into an absolute fucking problem.
Speaker 1: Because again, it was just a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: that we're like, oh, there's this new variant, the delta,
Speaker 1: and it was discovered in some far off place. Oh well,
Speaker 1: we'll just keep an eye out for it, and boom,
Speaker 1: within a few weeks it was in the United States.
Speaker 1: So there will only be a few more weeks before
Speaker 1: the lambda variant is here as well. Folks, if you
Speaker 1: are not fucking vaccinated, get fucking vaccinated, right and go
Speaker 1: back to wearing masks indoors, And if you cannot eat indoors,
Speaker 1: don't right eat outside. We still have a month or
Speaker 1: so left of summer. I'm going to switch years now, folks,
Speaker 1: because I again, I just feel like in so many
Speaker 1: ways that we are just headed in the wrong direction.
Speaker 1: And I'm really becoming so concerned about the state of
Speaker 1: our politics, the state of our democracy, just the state
Speaker 1: of our compassion. You know, I've been talking about Representative
Speaker 1: Corey Bush, who has been camped out in front of
Speaker 1: the Capitol, trying to raise awareness and bring concern to
Speaker 1: the fact that millions of Americans, seven to ten million
Speaker 1: Americans are in jeopardy of losing their homes because the
Speaker 1: moratorium on evictions was allowed to expire. And members of
Speaker 1: Congress you know, just went home on holiday for the
Speaker 1: next several weeks, so they have a home to go
Speaker 1: back to, but millions of Americans are wondering whether or
Speaker 1: not they will have a home to go back to.
Speaker 1: Right we are seeing that this virus, this pandemic, has
Speaker 1: created pandemics. On top of pandemics, economic instability, where people
Speaker 1: were already housing insecure and food insecure, has now been
Speaker 1: blown off the charts. And what a member of Congress
Speaker 1: who another member of Congress, one of my favorites, that
Speaker 1: joined Representative Corey Bush. On the steps of the Capitol
Speaker 1: was Ianna Presley and she said this, and I really
Speaker 1: I want to sit with it for a moment. She said,
Speaker 1: there is not a deficit of resources. There is a
Speaker 1: deficit of empathy. And when she said it, it really
Speaker 1: hit me directly in my heart because it is one
Speaker 1: hundred percent the truth. We have enough money, right, We're
Speaker 1: taxed up the wazoo, the middle class, lower income people,
Speaker 1: surely not the fucking rich. Right, because there was an
Speaker 1: article that is so disgusting that was either in Vanity
Speaker 1: Fair or The New Yorker where people that are out
Speaker 1: east in the Hamptons are complaining the rich are complaining
Speaker 1: about the uber rich that they are destroying the Hamptons
Speaker 1: because you know, everything is now priced out of control
Speaker 1: because thanks to Trump's tax cuts, these people have even
Speaker 1: more money to piss away. Right that there are is
Speaker 1: fifty dollars bills just kind of floating on the beaches there, right,
Speaker 1: because that's how much money people have to waste. You
Speaker 1: see that we have enough money and enough resources to
Speaker 1: be able to help all of those people that need help,
Speaker 1: but we don't have the fucking political will. We don't
Speaker 1: have empathy because while we live in a country that
Speaker 1: celebrates applot fucking individual ego dick measuring competitions into space
Speaker 1: of the uber wealthy, we do nothing to help the
Speaker 1: least among us. That's your problem, right. We're looking at
Speaker 1: and influx in quote unquote crime and they're saying, well,
Speaker 1: we need more cops. When has more cops ever helped
Speaker 1: any goddamn thing go to the safest neighborhoods in this country?
Speaker 1: Tell me how many cops you see on the street.
Speaker 1: We are reinforcing everything that is bad by not going
Speaker 1: to the core, which is fucking greed, right, Greed and
Speaker 1: power is going to be what destroys not only this country,
Speaker 1: but the planet. Fires are raging, Flooding is happening, pandemic
Speaker 1: is raging, People are losing their homes, lining up for
Speaker 1: food pantries. We're gonna be wondering soon enough when we
Speaker 1: go to the grocery store, white tomatoes and cucumbers and
Speaker 1: lettuces and milk are going to be off the charts
Speaker 1: and prices because you see, folks, we don't take care
Speaker 1: of the fucking environment that we live in. How do
Speaker 1: you think that you're going to be able to get
Speaker 1: your goods. How do you that you're going to be
Speaker 1: able to fill up your refrigerator if in fact you
Speaker 1: still have a fucking home. Farmers need to know when
Speaker 1: they can plant, right. They need to know that the
Speaker 1: nutrients that they're giving to their livestock aren't contaminated, and
Speaker 1: that there's enough those things are. It's all part of
Speaker 1: the larger ecosystem that we're not paying attention to at all,
Speaker 1: and instead we're listening to these blowhard politicians that want
Speaker 1: to tell us that, oh, climate change doesn't exist or
Speaker 1: that this is a normal occurrence. How many times do
Speaker 1: you have to hear historic fucking numbers, whether it be
Speaker 1: in temperatures or pollution or particles that are in the
Speaker 1: air every single goddamn week for folks to recognize, oh,
Speaker 1: this is really going to start to affect our food
Speaker 1: chain and where we're able to get those goods and
Speaker 1: services from. And now, if we can't get that from
Speaker 1: the farmers right and the growers here in the United States,
Speaker 1: then where do we go. We go everywhere abroad, which
Speaker 1: then allows for there to be more pollution because that
Speaker 1: ship has to be brought in on trucks and on
Speaker 1: planes and on ships that we refuse to regulate their emissions.
Speaker 1: It is a perfect storm that is brewing right now
Speaker 1: that doesn't have to happen, but we have no will.
Speaker 1: So Aana Presley is one hundred percent right, the congresswoman
Speaker 1: is one hundred percent right. There is not a deficit
Speaker 1: of resources. It's not that we don't have enough. It's
Speaker 1: that we decide to allocate it only to the wealthy, right,
Speaker 1: because we believe that everyone else is undeserving, that if
Speaker 1: you happen to be poor, that is your problem, as
Speaker 1: opposed to the systems that were put in place for
Speaker 1: you to stay that way. I don't understand why it
Speaker 1: is so difficult for everyone to connect the dots, or
Speaker 1: is it difficult or it's just a performance of ignorance
Speaker 1: at its highest level right now, is what we are seeing.
Speaker 1: These people are telling us, oh, no, send your kids
Speaker 1: back to school and do so unmasked, and teachers unions
Speaker 1: are saying, no, we're not going to wear a mask,
Speaker 1: and we're not going to do this, and we're not
Speaker 1: going to do that. Apparently, we want the freedom and
Speaker 1: the liberty to die and to bring as many people
Speaker 1: down with us as possible. We want the freedom and
Speaker 1: the liberty to be able to drive our big trucks,
Speaker 1: emit as much carbon dioxide, admit as much pollutants into
Speaker 1: the air as possible, right, so that then we get
Speaker 1: to a place where what we're selling air. It's so
Speaker 1: fucking wild to be living in a sci fi novel
Speaker 1: that is unfolding every single day and everyone just kind
Speaker 1: of walking around and doing the same shit that they've
Speaker 1: been doing and hoping for a different result. I feel
Speaker 1: like the entire globe is insane right now, and we
Speaker 1: have some of the worst political leaders our in power
Speaker 1: that have these bully pulpits like the de Santisis and
Speaker 1: the Abbots that just continue continue to spread misinformation and
Speaker 1: fucking bullshit, not just about a rigged election, but about
Speaker 1: apparently a rigged pandemic as well. It's just something that
Speaker 1: we've all made up, you know. I just I don't
Speaker 1: know how we move out of this space because the
Speaker 1: corrosive nature of these lies has spread to the core
Speaker 1: of who we are. It is become an identity for
Speaker 1: people right to be an anti vaxer, to be an
Speaker 1: anti masker, is become a core of who they are.
Speaker 1: And when people dig down that deep being able to
Speaker 1: change their mind or even open their eyes up to
Speaker 1: an alternative not alternative facts, right, but the truth. We
Speaker 1: have weaponized truth, so you don't know who to believe
Speaker 1: because everybody has an alternative goal. Coming up next, friends,
Speaker 1: is our good friend, our in house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel,
Speaker 1: to give us the rundown on the latest with COVID nineteen,
Speaker 1: the delta variant, and what we need to be paying
Speaker 1: attention to folks. I am always so happy when we
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to have our friend, our in house doctor,
Speaker 1: doctor Jonathan Metzel with us to walk us through the twisty,
Speaker 1: windy road of COVID nineteen, which, thank God, Jonathan, for
Speaker 1: you over the past year and a half, because I
Speaker 1: don't know how we would be navigating through. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about a couple of things, because, first of all,
Speaker 1: I want to say that I believe that the mainstream
Speaker 1: media has done doctors, scientists, health workers a complete and
Speaker 1: total disservice by running with this narrative that we were
Speaker 1: post COVID for the last couple of months and now
Speaker 1: only making the pivot as things start to get really bad.
Speaker 1: The United States has hit thirty five million new cases
Speaker 1: of COVID nineteen, with the concentration of that being in Texas,
Speaker 1: in Florida, and in California, Florida being the world's epicenter
Speaker 1: right now for COVID nineteen, the Delta variant, And now
Speaker 1: the media is making their pivot and saying, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess that it's not done, and now
Speaker 1: going back to bringing their experts and their doctors back on.
Speaker 1: What do you think about the way this resurgence is
Speaker 1: being covered, What do you think about it and the
Speaker 1: way in which the CDC has been completely and totally
Speaker 1: politicized by the right. Well, you know, it's funny because
Speaker 1: I don't know what the media is anymore, right, the
Speaker 1: whole idea that, I mean, in a world other than
Speaker 1: our own, like prior worlds, like you know, of this country,
Speaker 1: there was an authoritative media that people turn to to
Speaker 1: get health information. But now it's kind of like you
Speaker 1: can listen to any media that just supports your position.
Speaker 1: So there is no such thing as the media. I
Speaker 1: mean there is, but obviously, but so part of the
Speaker 1: issue is, you know, so I don't know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I just like I just couldn't see a media narrative
Speaker 1: stronger than get vaccinated. And even then half the people
Speaker 1: don't agree with it. And so certainly there's been a
Speaker 1: lot of up and down. And as you and I
Speaker 1: talked about last week, part of the up and down
Speaker 1: is just that the media. It's the media is not
Speaker 1: just causal, right, they're reflective. They're reflecting a shifting terrain, right.
Speaker 1: And I think initially, you know, it was human nature,
Speaker 1: like we had what was called the alpha variant before,
Speaker 1: a slow moving relatively we didn't realize coronavirus. The vaccines
Speaker 1: were treating it. You thought, we thought that the vaccines
Speaker 1: the key thing, and we talked about this last week.
Speaker 1: We didn't know that people vaccinated could actually pass on
Speaker 1: the virus. But now we're finding out that with the
Speaker 1: delta variant, it's just basically the mutation from hell. It
Speaker 1: really is, and and so, and no disrespect to the
Speaker 1: other mutations of the coronavirus, but this one really is
Speaker 1: just terrible in every possible way. You catch it in
Speaker 1: five seconds. It hangs in the air, you know, you
Speaker 1: just get it in a flash. It's worse, it's got
Speaker 1: a higher viral load. And so part of what we
Speaker 1: saw before was the media reflecting what was thought to
Speaker 1: be a general optimism that we were going to be
Speaker 1: able to reopen and stuff like that. And I don't
Speaker 1: blame them for anyone really for covering those stories, because
Speaker 1: that's kind of how we were all feeling like we
Speaker 1: needed a bit of hope and optimism. The problem is done.
Speaker 1: Things changed with the delta variant, and it's really just
Speaker 1: taken us conceptually. I mean, even me, I study this stuff,
Speaker 1: I teach about it. It's taken me a couple months
Speaker 1: just to understand the enormity of this mutation. And I'm
Speaker 1: still coming to terms with it myself. So I would
Speaker 1: say that there's been a slow change, but that's also
Speaker 1: impacting scientists, it's impacting politicians, I guess overall. I mean,
Speaker 1: I saw today over seventy percent of Americans are at least,
Speaker 1: you know, over eighteen or haven't had at least one shot.
Speaker 1: You know. We wouldn't have thought that six months ago.
Speaker 1: So there are things happening. But again, the shift for
Speaker 1: me is that this delta variant is just it's just
Speaker 1: such a curveball from everything else we thought we knew.
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