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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woka FA Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody back recording live from our

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Speaker 1: podstream studios in Times Square. Folks, there is an alarming

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Speaker 1: trend that is taking place now across the country. And no,

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Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about COVID nineteen and the pandemic,

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Speaker 1: but I'm talking about the reaction and response to doctors

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Speaker 1: not schools across the country should have a mask mandate.

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Speaker 1: Now we know we've been talking about this for quite

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Speaker 1: some time. Ronda Satan's response to that is that he's

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Speaker 1: going to find superintendence, He's going to doc pay of teachers,

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Speaker 1: and they can see other financial retribution that he wants

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Speaker 1: to have against them for trying to protect children in

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Speaker 1: the classroom. The thing that I want folks to understand

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Speaker 1: two right now is this, Ronda Santis, just like Donald

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Speaker 1: fucking Trump, is not a goddamn doctor. He is not

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Speaker 1: a medical professional at all. And so the idea that

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Speaker 1: hot zone where Republicans are totally okay that there is

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Speaker 1: currently right now an increase of somewhere of twenty percent

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Speaker 1: of infections of children, and that is before the school

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Speaker 1: year actually kicks off. That we are having more and

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Speaker 1: more conversations about how sick kids are getting, how young

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Speaker 1: they are when they are getting sick, how prolonged the

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Speaker 1: sickness is. Is that essentially Republicans have said to the

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Speaker 1: American people that your children are expendable. What I find

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Speaker 1: laughable right now is how when we were talking about

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Speaker 1: same sex marriage, let's say, back in twenty fifteen, when

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Speaker 1: it passed and cleared the Supreme Court, everything with Republicans

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Speaker 1: And we can't talk about this in the schools, and

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Speaker 1: what about the kids? Right? But when it comes to

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Speaker 1: you actually keeping your kids safe from illness, prolonged illness,

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Speaker 1: or potential death, they're like, rip the masks off, liberate

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Speaker 1: your children. You're a socialist. So here's the thing. This

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Speaker 1: is what is really troubling me right now, and I

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Speaker 1: a story that I said I had to read twice

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Speaker 1: and it is out of media, and it's this picture folks,

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Speaker 1: when I tell you, if you look at this, it

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Speaker 1: is video of angry parents harassing doctors and nurses that

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Speaker 1: we're taking part in a school board meeting in Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: and this is what media reports. The school district of Franklin, Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: was the site of major tension on Tuesday, when anti

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Speaker 1: ominous message to medical professionals encouraging mask mandates. The Williamson

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Speaker 1: buildings and on buses. So, folks, I want to start

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Speaker 1: with this, first of all, the fact that the media

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Speaker 1: it should not be. It's either you don't want to

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Speaker 1: the same logic that these people, these anti maskers, anti

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Speaker 1: here's the thing. These are the same type of tactics

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Speaker 1: had against abortion providers. Except here's a thing. My choice

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Speaker 1: to get an abortion does not affect my neighbor. My

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Speaker 1: choice not to get a vaccine for a incredibly contagious

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Speaker 1: virus puts everyone in my community at risk. Now, particularly

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Speaker 1: elementary school children are under the age of the vaccine

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Speaker 1: of COVID nineteen, and I want people to understand that

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Speaker 1: because when we were talking about infection rates for children

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Speaker 1: about the alpha variant of COVID nineteen. We are no

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Speaker 1: longer there, folks. We have moved on in the Greek alphabet.

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Speaker 1: We are now at delta plus, and so de Satan

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Speaker 1: and Abbott and other stupid Republican governors are operating off

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Speaker 1: of a set of also alternative facts because they're not

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Speaker 1: talking about this with our friend doctor Jonathan Metzel. What

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Speaker 1: is going to happen is that come mid October, a

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Speaker 1: in general. But what Republicans are basically saying is that

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Speaker 1: that's where they are. And so I wonder how far

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Speaker 1: their surge of COVID that that motherfucker caused, right, And

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Speaker 1: I'm a healthcare professional, no, no, no, I'm not going

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Speaker 1: you set this up, you deal with it. These are

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Speaker 1: why didn't you warn us, Why didn't you tell us?

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Speaker 1: So after peddling this type of non science based political

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Speaker 1: guess we will find out. So at this meeting, continuing

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Speaker 1: with the media, they say this. The chaos continued all

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Speaker 1: last year, at this time, we were clapping and applauding

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Speaker 1: the fuck we have devolved into now a year later, Right,

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Speaker 1: a kind of terrorist attack if you really think about it, right,

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Speaker 1: That's how we need to be talking about these people,

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Speaker 1: But when you tell people to take them off and

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