1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with 2 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live once again from 3 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 1: our Podstream studios in Times Square. Folks, everything is bad. 4 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: I don't know how to part and parcel out what 5 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 1: we should talk about on any given day because when 6 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 1: I open up Twitter, it's like just jumping into a 7 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 1: cesspool filled with acid rain topped by I don't know, 8 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,480 Speaker 1: killer slugs and killer bees. Remember we had that back 9 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty as well. So here's where we are. 10 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: We live in a country, folks, where reality is being debated, right, 11 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:53,599 Speaker 1: And the question that I'm asking friends and colleagues is this, 12 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: can reality exist if fifty percent of people have created 13 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: their own is there actually a founding and a basis right, 14 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: a commonality? Because you see, in reality, we have to 15 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: agree on certain principles, right, on certain ideas, which is 16 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: that gravity exists, right, that you know you should stop 17 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: at stop signs, that there are certain laws that dictate 18 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: the reality that we exist in. We cannot fly, so 19 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: you should not try and jump off of a building, 20 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 1: right that you should not ride a bicycle into you know, 21 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:28,480 Speaker 1: into a house. Like there were just certain things that 22 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 1: based in reality, the reality that we all agree upon. 23 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: But here's the thing. We no longer agree upon any 24 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 1: fucking thing, not anything whatsoever. And you know, there was 25 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 1: a time when I believed in strong debate. I used 26 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: to love the show Crossfire back in the day. You'll 27 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: remember that, where you would have people from opposite sides 28 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: and you would put out a theme or you'd put 29 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: out an issue, and then they would hack it out 30 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: and the audience right would be the better for it, until, 31 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: of course, like everything else, they just descended into fuckery. 32 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:08,679 Speaker 1: But here's where we are. On Monday, Memorial Herman Hospital 33 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 1: in Houston closed three ars down, three ers. They've closed. 34 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: And let me tell you what they've said in the 35 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 1: announcement that was made due to the continued COVID nineteen 36 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 1: surge and the strain on the hospital system's operation, it 37 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: was closing three of its twenty four hour emergency rooms. 38 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: I want you to think about that for a minute. 39 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: A hospital has made an announcement in a developed country, 40 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 1: in these United States, to say that they are closing 41 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: their fucking doors to three of their twenty four hour 42 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:55,079 Speaker 1: emergency rooms because they are overwhelmed and at capacity. Right, 43 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 1: and apparently at capacity by a fucking hoax, by something. 44 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 1: We've all made it up in our heads that apparently 45 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,359 Speaker 1: over six hundred thousand Americans have died in this country 46 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,959 Speaker 1: by something given to them by Peter Pan. Evidently it's 47 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: all just in our fucking heads. Hospitals are crumbling all 48 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:19,359 Speaker 1: across this country, and yet fifty percent of the population 49 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 1: wants to tell me that I should put a fucking 50 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: spoon on my arm where the vaccination shot went in, 51 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: and if it sticks, that means that my DNA has 52 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:32,399 Speaker 1: been altered. And people are actually believing this fuck shit. 53 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: You know, when I saw the report, which was about 54 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: a week or so ago, of the young girl, and 55 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: I want us to remember her name. I want us 56 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 1: to know her name right, eighth grader in Mississippi, And 57 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: this is what the report says. Here, a sweet Mississippi 58 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: town is in mourning the death of one of its 59 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: sweetest students. A little over a thousand people called Raleigh, 60 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: a place nestled in Smith County, Mississippi, home where a 61 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: magnolia drive runs through the heart of downtown and a 62 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: road is dotted with pastel colored storefronts and red brick 63 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: government buildings. For half a mile. It's a sleepy place. 64 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 1: And now this sleepy little quintessential apparently American town is 65 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: in a collective state of grief over a thirteen year 66 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: old girl named Michaela Robinson who died of COVID. Here's 67 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: the thing, folks, and this is what is getting to me. 68 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: How many Michaela's are there going to be? How many 69 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:59,719 Speaker 1: children across this country are going to die in the 70 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 1: weeks because of the many executioners that we have at 71 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 1: the helm of Red states across this country, death santis 72 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:22,679 Speaker 1: de satan, you know, choose your poison, abbot, and others. 73 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,920 Speaker 1: I just named the top two because this is who 74 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: the rest of Red state governors are taking their cues from. 75 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: Mikaela went back to school as every other eighth grader 76 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: in her town was going to go back to school, 77 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:44,719 Speaker 1: and she, along with eight other children, ended up in 78 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: the ICU of Children's of Mississippi, the Children's Hospital. She 79 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 1: died on August fourteenth. And the thing here in this story, folks, 80 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 1: is that we always have Republicans that want to feed 81 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 1: us this line of absolute bullshit about the children, And 82 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:11,559 Speaker 1: what about the children? The children can't see two people 83 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: of the same sex get married, because what about the children? 84 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 1: The children can't go to the bathroom at the bathroom 85 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: is gender neutral, because you know, what about the children? 86 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 1: We need to put parental advisories on everything, because what 87 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 1: about the children? But when it comes to actually changing 88 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:31,720 Speaker 1: and shaping and making sure that children are safe, right, 89 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 1: and changing policy in order to keep children actually safe 90 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,039 Speaker 1: from harm, we don't fucking do that. And nobody ever 91 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: calls out Republicans and says, hey, what about the children. 92 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: You have a classroom of first graders that get mowed 93 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 1: down by an AR fifteen in Sandy Hook, and you 94 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 1: tell us not to politicize. Now, the same fraction of 95 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: QAnon fus right who believe that the vaccine is changing 96 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:05,479 Speaker 1: human DNA are the same people that believe that Sandy 97 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: Hook was all made up. That apparently the parents who 98 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: lost their six and seventy year old children and had 99 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 1: to bury them right, somehow they just made it up 100 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: for attention. Say that the kids who watched their best 101 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 1: friends die in front of them in Parkland, somehow they 102 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: made that shit up too. They're just a bunch of actors. 103 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: I talked about this a couple of weeks ago, that 104 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 1: one of the Parkland students. His own father somehow now 105 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 1: because of QAnon, believes that he was some type of 106 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: actor involved in the Parkland shooting. The man was in 107 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: the house when he got the call that the school 108 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: was locked down because there was a mass shooting. If 109 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: this is where we have arrived in our society, we're 110 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: instead of creating policy, instead of doing something to protect 111 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: our children, we instead sell them bulletproof backpacks that instead 112 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: of using a piece of fucking cloth that could keep 113 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: your child from death from long term COVID, who has 114 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: any idea what the fuck that will actually look like 115 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: in a body that's still developing. Instead of doing that, 116 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: we have anti mask mandates rolled out in all of 117 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:36,559 Speaker 1: these states, including Mississippi where MICHAELA died. What about the children? 118 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: Coming up next? Friends, is my conversation with our in 119 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 1: house doctor, doctor Jonathan Metzel to talk to us about 120 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: the latest with COVID, folks. I am so excited to 121 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: be back and in conversation with our in house doctor, 122 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:02,719 Speaker 1: doctor Jonathan Metzel, who is now back on location in 123 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: Tennessee with his university, going to be teaching in person 124 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 1: two hundred some odd students. Jonathan You've been in Tennessee 125 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: for how long now? And what are you what are 126 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 1: you seeing? As the differences between how New York and 127 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: Connecticut were you also were throughout this time. We're hand 128 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 1: are handling COVID versus what you're seeing in Tennessee. I mean, 129 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: I've been here, I guess for a week, but in 130 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 1: dog years, it feels like I've been here for ten 131 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: years already. It's been a really long week. It's great 132 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: to talk to you. Hello, everybody. I would say in 133 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: I've had this really weird thing right where for the 134 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 1: past year I've been living on the East Coast, and 135 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: I mean certainly everywhere. It's not like you're going to 136 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: escape it, but in general in New York, for example, 137 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: I mean, certainly some people do what some people don't, 138 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 1: but there's a general playing by a particular set of rules. 139 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 1: You know, you go somewhere, people are in general wearing 140 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: a mask. You can pretty much people you're going to 141 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: interact with have been vaccinated. And now I started triple 142 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: masking yesterday because it's just odd. Well it's more just 143 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: that like like are you breathing? Like do you have 144 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 1: an oxygen techs? I had to go to the airport 145 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 1: and take up light on Southwest Airlines, and so I 146 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,199 Speaker 1: just thought, man, I'm like swimming and I don't know 147 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 1: if it's COVID or whatever something right now, So I 148 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: figured I would rather be safe than sorry. But it's 149 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 1: just it's interesting that like your everyday interactions are just 150 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: you just you can't assume that people are playing by 151 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 1: that same set of rules. I mean, I've been the 152 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:48,040 Speaker 1: only mask person in multiple indoor settings. Certainly there are 153 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: people here who are scared out of their minds. There 154 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 1: are people here who are worried about it, people who 155 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 1: want to do the right thing. But it's just interesting 156 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:59,680 Speaker 1: to be part of a framework where the bigger framework 157 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 1: is out of public health framework, and so everywhere you 158 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 1: go you can pretty much just I just take it 159 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 1: for granted outside of my university that I'm I just 160 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: assume I'm going to be the only mass person, and 161 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:13,679 Speaker 1: that's It's not always the case, but it's often the case, 162 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 1: and so it just leads to a different kind of 163 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 1: I mean, again, I'm coming from a health perspective, it's 164 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: much it's harder to relax. I mean, I feel like 165 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:24,959 Speaker 1: this for me, I would mu surether be in New York, 166 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 1: where everybody's kind of playing by a set of rules 167 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 1: that are linked to kind of communal safety. For me, 168 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: that is more relaxing, even though we're faced with this 169 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: shitty situation which is there's virus. But here it's kind 170 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 1: of like everybody's it just feels like everybody's for themselves, 171 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:43,720 Speaker 1: which I don't know, I don't I don't like it 172 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: as much, you know, It's just it's hard when you know, 173 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:48,959 Speaker 1: when you say that, like so in New York that 174 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,079 Speaker 1: everyone is playing by the same set of you know, similarly, 175 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: the same set of rules, meaning that we're all kind 176 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 1: of focused on community safety and community wellness, and that 177 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 1: has been from the top down. Right, do you feel 178 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 1: though that when you are the only mask person inside somewhere, like, 179 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,839 Speaker 1: are you receiving sneers or people looking at you because 180 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:14,680 Speaker 1: they're operating frankly on a set of community values as well. 181 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: They're libertarian freedoms, right, and what it is that they 182 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 1: perceive to be their autonomy, which is the ability to 183 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: harm folks. And so I'm just wondering how are you 184 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: being perceived with your masking with you know, within the university, 185 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: but also just going to the store picking up you know, 186 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 1: whatever it is that you need. Yeah, even if you 187 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 1: wanted to wear a mask, you're you're just out numbered 188 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 1: here basically. And so it's kind of like it's just 189 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,319 Speaker 1: exhaustion really in a certain kind of way. I mean, 190 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 1: certainly there are some people give you bad looks. Some 191 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 1: people are like, oh I A lot of people like 192 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,200 Speaker 1: probably tried to wear masks and then they just kind 193 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: of tired of it and stuff like that. And so 194 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 1: it's more like it's more that it's more a structural 195 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: level exhaustion, if that makes any sense. In other words, 196 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 1: like some people are worried about COVID, some people aren't. 197 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:12,200 Speaker 1: Some people want to do the right thing. Some people 198 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 1: are just wanting to get on with their lives. But 199 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 1: because the bigger structure isn't giving clear public health guidelines, 200 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 1: and if they did, people wouldn't follow them. I'll give 201 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 1: you an example. I was in the Nashville airport, and 202 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 1: even though there's a mask mandate in the airport, plenty 203 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:31,319 Speaker 1: of people were just walking around with their mask, just 204 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: covering their chin nostril patriots because they were determined to 205 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: have their noses outside of their masks. Some people just 206 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:43,120 Speaker 1: had their masks around one ear, and other people were 207 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:45,439 Speaker 1: like scared o their minds and like me, they had 208 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:47,719 Speaker 1: like seventy five masks on and stuff like that. But 209 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 1: it's just like you're in this bigger pool of people 210 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 1: doing things kind of differently. And so I don't know, 211 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 1: certainly I had the individual economy to wear seventy five masks. 212 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:00,440 Speaker 1: That was my liberty and my freedom. But I I 213 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 1: would rather be part of a I mean, I'd probably 214 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: sound like some bleading socialist right now, but I'd rather 215 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,559 Speaker 1: be part of a place where like everybody's just kind 216 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 1: of wearing a mask. I just find it moreally relaxing. 217 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: I guess what I'm trying to say, and it's hard 218 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: to articulate because I'm in the middle of it now, 219 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 1: is it's just coming from it. I find it to 220 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 1: be in a situation where everyone is just making up 221 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 1: their own rules. Yeah, and you know where are where 222 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 1: Where is Tennessee right now? In terms of their icee 223 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 1: you beds in terms of their infection right I'm certain 224 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 1: that you're probably following that in the same way that 225 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 1: we follow it here in New York, and so are 226 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: they in I'm assuming that they are in similar positions 227 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: as Florida and Texas and Mississippi and Alabama. What do 228 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: their numbers look like right now? It's catastrophic. I mean, 229 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: it's horrible. There was a piece in the New York 230 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 1: Times about it this morning. Not just COVID. We had 231 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 1: a flash floods here the other day. Yeah, a lot 232 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 1: of people got killed. So there's um, you know, climate 233 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 1: issues and things like that. But again we've got it. 234 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 1: We've got, like many southern states, a governor who's going 235 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: around overturning mask mandates, and so there's a push and 236 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 1: pull like and there's a nice piece in the New 237 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 1: York Times about it this morning that people are really worried, 238 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: and there are a lot of parents who are worried. 239 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: But the big issue is school is going back in 240 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 1: I'm starting teaching again tomorrow, and so it just it 241 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 1: just feels like every person's out there for themselves and 242 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: there's no an anytime you try to create like a 243 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: kind of okay, let's do public health, you've got somebody 244 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 1: like the horrible governor here, see who comes and overturns it. 245 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: And so it's weird because on one hand, it's like, 246 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: you know, states rights or individual liberty or something like that. 247 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 1: But every time a school tries to say, Okay, look 248 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 1: we're going to we're going to legislate safety for our community, 249 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 1: the governor comes in and says, you can't. You can't 250 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 1: mandate masks in your schools. You've probably seen some videos 251 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 1: of the people you know shouting down school board members 252 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 1: and doctors are now getting getting attacked on social media, 253 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: and so it's not a good situation. I mean, again, 254 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 1: people have their individual lived there are times where you 255 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: need communal public health, and so I'm trying to get 256 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: the lay of the land. It's been a week here, 257 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 1: but I will say that I feel like this week 258 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 1: has been a very long week. I mean, I'm I'm 259 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 1: still kicking right here as we proceed, and I feel 260 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 1: you and the viewers in on what things are like 261 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 1: in the South. It's just really again, everybody you see 262 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: is not some crazy Twitter person, but just the everyday interaction. 263 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: You just can't assume the same kind of safety. And 264 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 1: of course this is all happening in the context of 265 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 1: a bigger conversation where COVID is getting much worse and 266 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 1: it's going to last now much longer, and vaccine hesitancy 267 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 1: is really really going to prolong this narrative, so it 268 00:16:51,160 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: just feels tiring right now, to be honest. That's it 269 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: for today's Woke, a f daily podcast. To hear more 270 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 1: from today's show, including my full interview with doctor Jonathan Metzel, 271 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 1: support me on Patreon at patreon dot com slash woke 272 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:13,679 Speaker 1: F Power to the people and to all the people. Power, 273 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.