Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woka FA Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody back recording live from our
Speaker 1: podstream studios in Times Square. Folks, there is an alarming
Speaker 1: trend that is taking place now across the country. And no,
Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about COVID nineteen and the pandemic,
Speaker 1: but I'm talking about the reaction and response to doctors
Speaker 1: and health officials scientists that are taking part in meetings
Speaker 1: at school boards right in order to decide whether or
Speaker 1: not schools across the country should have a mask mandate.
Speaker 1: Now we know we've been talking about this for quite
Speaker 1: some time. Ronda Satan's response to that is that he's
Speaker 1: going to find superintendence, He's going to doc pay of teachers,
Speaker 1: and they can see other financial retribution that he wants
Speaker 1: to have against them for trying to protect children in
Speaker 1: the classroom. The thing that I want folks to understand
Speaker 1: two right now is this, Ronda Santis, just like Donald
Speaker 1: fucking Trump, is not a goddamn doctor. He is not
Speaker 1: a medical professional at all. And so the idea that
Speaker 1: we are in this place where his state is a
Speaker 1: hot zone where Republicans are totally okay that there is
Speaker 1: currently right now an increase of somewhere of twenty percent
Speaker 1: of infections of children, and that is before the school
Speaker 1: year actually kicks off. That we are having more and
Speaker 1: more conversations about how sick kids are getting, how young
Speaker 1: they are when they are getting sick, how prolonged the
Speaker 1: sickness is. Is that essentially Republicans have said to the
Speaker 1: American people that your children are expendable. What I find
Speaker 1: laughable right now is how when we were talking about
Speaker 1: same sex marriage, let's say, back in twenty fifteen, when
Speaker 1: it passed and cleared the Supreme Court, everything with Republicans
Speaker 1: and white evangelical Christians was about what about the kids?
Speaker 1: And we can't talk about this in the schools, and
Speaker 1: what about the kids? Right? But when it comes to
Speaker 1: you actually keeping your kids safe from illness, prolonged illness,
Speaker 1: or potential death, they're like, rip the masks off, liberate
Speaker 1: your children. You're a socialist. So here's the thing. This
Speaker 1: is what is really troubling me right now, and I
Speaker 1: want to bring it to your attention because it is
Speaker 1: a story that I said I had to read twice
Speaker 1: and it is out of media, and it's this picture folks,
Speaker 1: when I tell you, if you look at this, it
Speaker 1: is video of angry parents harassing doctors and nurses that
Speaker 1: we're taking part in a school board meeting in Tennessee,
Speaker 1: and this is what media reports. The school district of Franklin, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: was the site of major tension on Tuesday, when anti
Speaker 1: mask demonstrators concluded a day of protests by sending an
Speaker 1: ominous message to medical professionals encouraging mask mandates. The Williamson
Speaker 1: County School Board held a four hour meeting with doctors
Speaker 1: and parents to discuss the implementation of a requirement for students,
Speaker 1: staff and visitors to wear masks inside the elementary school
Speaker 1: buildings and on buses. So, folks, I want to start
Speaker 1: with this, first of all, the fact that the media
Speaker 1: has decided that this is a two sided debate when
Speaker 1: it should not be. It's either you don't want to
Speaker 1: die and you don't want your children to die, or
Speaker 1: you do right. And what is frustrating to me about
Speaker 1: the same logic that these people, these anti maskers, anti
Speaker 1: vaxers are imposing on the rest of us, is that
Speaker 1: here's the thing. These are the same type of tactics
Speaker 1: and bullshit and threatening and harassing that these people have
Speaker 1: had against abortion providers. Except here's a thing. My choice
Speaker 1: to get an abortion does not affect my neighbor. My
Speaker 1: choice not to get a vaccine for a incredibly contagious
Speaker 1: virus puts everyone in my community at risk. Now, particularly
Speaker 1: elementary school children are under the age of the vaccine
Speaker 1: definition of those that are safe to get vaccinated twelve
Speaker 1: and up right, which is middle school and up so
Speaker 1: elementary school, while we have not during the first iteration
Speaker 1: of COVID nineteen, and I want people to understand that
Speaker 1: because when we were talking about infection rates for children
Speaker 1: and whether or not they get sick, we were talking
Speaker 1: about the alpha variant of COVID nineteen. We are no
Speaker 1: longer there, folks. We have moved on in the Greek alphabet.
Speaker 1: We are now at delta plus, and so de Satan
Speaker 1: and Abbott and other stupid Republican governors are operating off
Speaker 1: of a set of also alternative facts because they're not
Speaker 1: actually facts, but they're basing their thoughts off of what
Speaker 1: we knew with Alpha. Delta plus is also mutating, and
Speaker 1: there is Lambda that is also around and has been
Speaker 1: detected in the United States and so when you have
Speaker 1: elementary school administrators, teachers principles that are saying, we want
Speaker 1: to keep everyone safe. Whether or not you are vaccinated
Speaker 1: or not does not matter. What we know is that
Speaker 1: masks work, right. And so here we have these group
Speaker 1: of people who are protesting folks. And if you pull
Speaker 1: up go to media, and if you pull up the
Speaker 1: pictures and the videos of this, the sea of white
Speaker 1: people screaming and spouting droplets from their mouth with no
Speaker 1: mask and don't mask my children, I felt scared. I
Speaker 1: feel scared for the people that are living in these
Speaker 1: red states. I feel scared for these doctors and these
Speaker 1: administrators that are just trying to do their jobs because
Speaker 1: you know what is going to happen, and we keep
Speaker 1: talking about this with our friend doctor Jonathan Metzel. What
Speaker 1: is going to happen is that come mid October, a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks removed from the beginning of school, we
Speaker 1: are going to see mass hospitalizations and sickness of children
Speaker 1: that are ages twelve and below, if not all kids
Speaker 1: in general. But what Republicans are basically saying is that
Speaker 1: your children are expendable and that they are willing to
Speaker 1: accept a certain amount of death a certain amount of
Speaker 1: severe illness, so long as they can purport liberty, right,
Speaker 1: that's where they are. And so I wonder how far
Speaker 1: are we willing to go down this horribly dangerous, toxic
Speaker 1: rabbit hole, because what did I report yesterday? Governor Abbott
Speaker 1: has now called for health professionals from around the country
Speaker 1: to come in to fucking Texas to help out with
Speaker 1: their surge of COVID that that motherfucker caused, right, And
Speaker 1: so people are like, well, it's not the people of
Speaker 1: Texas's fault, it's their governor. And I'm like, how did
Speaker 1: he become governor? They voted him in? And so if
Speaker 1: I'm a healthcare professional, no, no, no, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to the front lines of your fuckery. You deal with it, right,
Speaker 1: you set this up, you deal with it. These are
Speaker 1: your constituents that are going to die. These are your
Speaker 1: families that are going to be broken apart and devastated,
Speaker 1: and they are going to look to you and say,
Speaker 1: why didn't you warn us, Why didn't you tell us?
Speaker 1: So after peddling this type of non science based political
Speaker 1: bullshit for the past year and a half, this is
Speaker 1: where folks will end up. I don't know how you
Speaker 1: stay in office when your constituents are dead, But I
Speaker 1: guess we will find out. So at this meeting, continuing
Speaker 1: with the media, they say this. The chaos continued all
Speaker 1: the way into the evening, with footage showing that medical
Speaker 1: officials left the meeting and were harangued by the anti
Speaker 1: mass crowd in the parking lot. I don't like the
Speaker 1: word harangued. I think it's stupid. They were harassed, they
Speaker 1: were threatened, they were tormented, right, And do you know
Speaker 1: what's worse, folks, let me tell you this. Fucking police
Speaker 1: were present. Police were present while these health professionals were
Speaker 1: being harassed and threatened, and they did nothing. Why because
Speaker 1: cops don't do shit when white people act up, they
Speaker 1: do absolutely fucking nothing. And so these people now they
Speaker 1: went to the school board because they want to try
Speaker 1: and reason with these people, because you went into a
Speaker 1: profession that is about health and healing and helping people.
Speaker 1: So you think we used to right If you remember
Speaker 1: last year, at this time, we were clapping and applauding
Speaker 1: and playing violins and doing dances for healthcare professionals that
Speaker 1: were risking their lives to save us. This is what
Speaker 1: the fuck we have devolved into now a year later, Right,
Speaker 1: this is what our politics has done. This is what
Speaker 1: media who wants to present the mask issue as an
Speaker 1: issue as if it is not basically, oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: a kind of terrorist attack if you really think about it, right,
Speaker 1: if you really think about the way in which these
Speaker 1: people are operating, They're not operating like regular anti vax
Speaker 1: there's no They are becoming more organized, they are becoming angrier,
Speaker 1: they are becoming a lot more vicious, and they are
Speaker 1: moving and operating like a lynching mob, right, like a
Speaker 1: group of domestic terrorists with cells all around the fucking country.
Speaker 1: That's how we need to be talking about these people,
Speaker 1: because where we are is serious. Now here's another article
Speaker 1: that folks, I am deeply concerned, deeply worried about, and
Speaker 1: have been asking this question for a while on this show.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure about whether or not what the CDC
Speaker 1: is offering is actually one hundred percent the truth. And
Speaker 1: I say that not because I am obviously not a Trumper,
Speaker 1: and not because I don't believe in science, but I
Speaker 1: believe that things have become so politicized, right that we
Speaker 1: are so broken that the CDC as a way to
Speaker 1: ensure that more people get vaccinated, are not providing us
Speaker 1: with the kind of information that we need, Just as
Speaker 1: in June it was you're vaccinated, take your mask off.
Speaker 1: And I remember when that guidance came out and I said,
Speaker 1: I think that this is a terrible idea. I think
Speaker 1: that people have gotten used to masks, that they are
Speaker 1: operating in a way that is keeping people safe, and
Speaker 1: that whether or not you're vaccinated should not have stopped
Speaker 1: people from wearing masks in public, in indoor facilities at all.
Speaker 1: But when you tell people to take them off and
Speaker 1: then three weeks later tell them to put them back
Speaker 1: on because we have more information, that is dumb, right,
Speaker 1: because you allowed people to have this false sense of
Speaker 1: security that they were free and clear, knowing that you
Speaker 1: needed actually to have more information. So we should have
Speaker 1: been working through our vaccinations with the same social distancing
Speaker 1: and masking as researchers were understanding and learning more about
Speaker 1: how these variants are moving and how the vaccination is moving.
Speaker 1: And so in another article, and this time in New
Speaker 1: York magazine, it is this, too many people are dying
Speaker 1: right now. It's hard to look at these indicators and
Speaker 1: feel at all optimistic, says scientists Eric Toppel. This article
Speaker 1: is terrifying. And why is that? It is because Eric Toppel,
Speaker 1: scientist is stating that he believes that the breakthrough infection
Speaker 1: rate with the vaccine is a lot higher than what
Speaker 1: the CDC is offering to the public. Now, we can
Speaker 1: all say that in the climate that we are currently in,
Speaker 1: this type of information becomes readily available. The anti vaxxer,
Speaker 1: an anti mass, stupid fucking group of people will then
Speaker 1: use this to say, well, see, we knew that the
Speaker 1: vaccine wasn't going to work, so there's no reason to
Speaker 1: get it. But here's the thing, folks, you're not going
Speaker 1: to die. I have known right now, and I know
Speaker 1: I was feeling this until I saw this report that
Speaker 1: the breakthrough is higher than it's being reported. And I
Speaker 1: will state this. Why is that Because a majority, I
Speaker 1: would say, ninety eight percent of my friends and family
Speaker 1: are all vaccinated. However, three of my small circle of
Speaker 1: friends contracted COVID after being one hundred percent vaccinated outside
Speaker 1: of the two week window of the second shot they
Speaker 1: caught COVID. Two of them were completely fine, no symptoms
Speaker 1: at all. One of them actually had a really bad cold,
Speaker 1: Like he indicated to me a really bad flu that
Speaker 1: knocked him out. But did he end up in the hospital. No?
Speaker 1: Is he attached to the ventilator? No is he able
Speaker 1: to now like continue on with work after a couple
Speaker 1: of days of being sick. Yeah. Absolutely, So the vaccine
Speaker 1: does work. The vaccine does not stop us from getting COVID.
Speaker 1: The vaccine does not stop us potentially from falling ill.
Speaker 1: But what it is stopping is us from dying at
Speaker 1: the rates that we were dying pre vaccination. What it
Speaker 1: does stop is the anxiety that we may lose somebody
Speaker 1: that we love and care about. I would rather catch
Speaker 1: COVID now being fully vaccinated and have a really bad cold,
Speaker 1: right than the possibility of losing my life or somebody
Speaker 1: that I care about. And so in this article, it's
Speaker 1: important for us to understand what is being said. So
Speaker 1: I will read this. The US numbers are a bit
Speaker 1: wobbly these days, and there are huge variations state to state,
Speaker 1: reflecting disparities in vaccination rates, among other things. But at
Speaker 1: the national level, at least for the moment, the reduction
Speaker 1: of mortality risks seemed to be considerably smaller. In the
Speaker 1: worst of this winter surge, the country was registering, remember this,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand new cases per day. That
Speaker 1: is where we were at its peak. That surge was killing.
Speaker 1: If you remember, three thousand Americans a day, we were
Speaker 1: having a nine eleven every single day last winter. Three
Speaker 1: thousand people died in nine to eleven, and we rallied
Speaker 1: as a fucking country against the quote unquote enemy. But
Speaker 1: here we are where we had three thousand people dying
Speaker 1: a day, and we were becoming more divided than ever
Speaker 1: because of the bullshit leadership that we had. He goes
Speaker 1: on to write this. Today we have a bit more
Speaker 1: than a hundred thousand new cases each day, though the
Speaker 1: numbers are still rising as part of the delta wave.
Speaker 1: If we had reduced mortality risk by seventy five percent,
Speaker 1: that would mean about three hundred daily deaths. If we
Speaker 1: had reduced it by ninety percent, it would mean one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty. Instead, in our seven day average, we
Speaker 1: just passed five hundred. Things may be even worse than that, though.
Speaker 1: In general, epidemiologists expect a lag of a week or two,
Speaker 1: perhaps more between case peaks and death peaks. Essentially the
Speaker 1: time it takes for a new case to progress through
Speaker 1: the full course of the disease. Early in the pandemic,
Speaker 1: the lag was a bit longer, though in the US
Speaker 1: during the winter surge, the gap between peaks was less
Speaker 1: than one week, and comparing case data from even one
Speaker 1: week ago with today's death data reveals an even grimmer
Speaker 1: pitcher folks listen to this about seventy five thousand cases
Speaker 1: per day, then, yielding the current average of five hundred deaths,
Speaker 1: suggesting the mortality rate had fallen by less than half
Speaker 1: since winter. If you work from two week old data,
Speaker 1: it suggests that the mortality rate had hardly fallen at all.
Speaker 1: Applying the winter ratio to the caseload from July twenty
Speaker 1: fourth would predict an average of six hundred daily deaths.
Speaker 1: On Friday, they were seven hundred and sixty three. The
Speaker 1: picture that this article is painting and this scientist is
Speaker 1: painting is telling us this, folks, we are not at
Speaker 1: the end of this pandemic. We are not post COVID
Speaker 1: as the media so readily wanted to celebrate, as New
Speaker 1: York's concert wanted to celebrate, Oh We're back. No, folks,
Speaker 1: we are not. We have been fed a false sense
Speaker 1: of security. The reality is this, people need to get vaccinated.
Speaker 1: Folks that are not vaccinated need to get vaccinated. Even
Speaker 1: with your vaccination, you need to be wearing a mask
Speaker 1: in public in an indoor spaces. Why, because we are
Speaker 1: mutating on top of ourselves. And what we are learning right,
Speaker 1: which is why I use the phrase needing to be
Speaker 1: intellectually nimble. Right, what we are learning is that even
Speaker 1: if you are vaccinated, you can pass the virus through
Speaker 1: you to other people. Right. You may not even know
Speaker 1: because you may be one of the folks that is
Speaker 1: showing no symptoms. But the fact is is that if
Speaker 1: it is being passed on there means that there is
Speaker 1: still an ample amount of virus that is present, which
Speaker 1: means that it still has the ability to mutate on
Speaker 1: top of itself. As soon as we heard about the
Speaker 1: delta variant a month or two, a month and a
Speaker 1: half ago, we are now at delta plus right, and
Speaker 1: it's becoming more and more rapid, right because the virus
Speaker 1: is getting smarter and smarter, while we hear humans are
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