Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from the Brooklyn Bunker.
Speaker 1: We'd be moving around a lot these days, from studio
Speaker 1: to home and back again. You know, folks, I get
Speaker 1: to a place often where I am just wanting to
Speaker 1: throw out my hands, where I'm wanting to be like,
Speaker 1: I'm just done. I'm done in general, right because every
Speaker 1: time that I open up the news, every time that
Speaker 1: I look, you know, at the papers, every time that
Speaker 1: I go into Twitter, it just feels like I'm just dripping,
Speaker 1: dripping in like sewage and acid and just toxicity. It's
Speaker 1: no wonder why people opt out of social media after
Speaker 1: a while. It's no wonder why there is like extreme
Speaker 1: burnout from the news and people are just like after
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, they don't even want to turn on. But
Speaker 1: the reality is is that if you don't if you
Speaker 1: don't check in right, then you can't have a voice.
Speaker 1: Then you don't know what's going on. So here are
Speaker 1: some things that I want to bring to your attention
Speaker 1: that are happening right now that just shouldn't be. And
Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to talk about COVID on this show,
Speaker 1: because we're still in a pandemic, and yet the majority
Speaker 1: of the country doesn't think so, except for the fact,
Speaker 1: folks that this week, the United States has more positive
Speaker 1: COVID cases than any other country in the world. How
Speaker 1: the fuck is that happening when we literally have more
Speaker 1: vaccines than every other country in the world. Do you
Speaker 1: know why that is? Because we're the ones creating the vaccines.
Speaker 1: They're being created in the United States, and the federal
Speaker 1: government has purchased all of them, essentially so that every
Speaker 1: American can get their two shots and a booster. And
Speaker 1: yet we're still seeing reports, like I said yesterday, of
Speaker 1: hospitals having to close down emergency rooms. Of the Arkansas
Speaker 1: governor now after his fucking bullshit getting on the airwaves
Speaker 1: and telling people the hospitals are at capacity. Yeah, motherfucker.
Speaker 1: What did you think was going to happen when you
Speaker 1: didn't have a mask mandate in place? What did you
Speaker 1: think was going to happen when you were telling folks
Speaker 1: that they shouldn't send their kids to schools with masking,
Speaker 1: telling school boards and city councils that they can't have
Speaker 1: mask mandates. And then you in these Red states have
Speaker 1: the lowest vaccination numbers because you all believe the Trump bullshit.
Speaker 1: And you know what pisses me off even more is
Speaker 1: that when that fucking orange piece of shit had one
Speaker 1: of his hate rallies recently and he says, oh, you
Speaker 1: know you should, folks, you should get the vaccine, he
Speaker 1: was booed by his own fucking sycophants. That's how far
Speaker 1: gone these people are. And so I continue to say, look,
Speaker 1: you don't want to get the vaccine, right, what ambulances
Speaker 1: should be asking, folks is and when they're headed to
Speaker 1: your house to go get you anti vaxer, to go
Speaker 1: bring you to the emergency room to ask the question
Speaker 1: were you vaccinated? Let me see your vaccin vaccination card.
Speaker 1: Oh you weren't vaccinated. Well, there is no room at
Speaker 1: the end for you, because what needs to start happening
Speaker 1: is that we are going to keep our beds in
Speaker 1: this hospital for people in actual need. You didn't need
Speaker 1: the vaccine, you didn't need a mask. Well, guess what,
Speaker 1: you don't need a hospital bed either, because the same
Speaker 1: people that we're telling you to prevent your severe illness
Speaker 1: and death, who you didn't want to believe because you
Speaker 1: think that your Facebook and YouTube education is greater than
Speaker 1: their seven, eight, nine, ten years of schooling in the
Speaker 1: medical industry, then fucking google your way out of your symptoms.
Speaker 1: Once you catch COVID, don't now flood into hospitals begging
Speaker 1: for help. Fuck you. And that's really what I want
Speaker 1: nurses and doctors and health administrators to start saying, being like, no,
Speaker 1: if you haven't been vaccinated, you don't get to come
Speaker 1: to the hospital for what for the imaginary hoax of
Speaker 1: medicine that we're going to be sticking into your arm
Speaker 1: that you don't know anything about, and it's microchips and this,
Speaker 1: that and the other thing. Why do you believe in
Speaker 1: the hospital when you were on your deathbed, but you
Speaker 1: didn't believe in those same doctors when they were trying
Speaker 1: to save your life. I don't see why you should
Speaker 1: receive care. And people may say, oh my god, Danielle,
Speaker 1: that is so harsh. We don't want people to die,
Speaker 1: and I say, fuck them. You want to roll the dice,
Speaker 1: roll them. Our country just feels so fucked right now
Speaker 1: that I don't really know how you unfuck it. Because
Speaker 1: let me tell you something, we should not be in
Speaker 1: a place where we are trying to hold hands with
Speaker 1: these people, we're, oh, you know, let's bring them over
Speaker 1: to our side. Fuck that for what if you weren't
Speaker 1: going to be able to convince these people after four
Speaker 1: years of living under Donald Trump, right, and now their messiah.
Speaker 1: They don't even listen to their messiah after he says
Speaker 1: that he's been vaccinated, right, and that they should get
Speaker 1: vaccinated too. And as soon as they started to boo,
Speaker 1: this man just shriveled up like the fucking turd that
Speaker 1: he is. Okay, okay, okay, whatever it is that you want,
Speaker 1: Just still love me, Still give me money so that
Speaker 1: I can pay all of my lawyer fees for all
Speaker 1: of the court cases that are being waged against me
Speaker 1: because I'm a fucking criminal. And we continue to talk
Speaker 1: about these people as if like, oh, they know not
Speaker 1: what they do. Yes, they do. They know exactly what
Speaker 1: they are doing. You know, right now you have de
Speaker 1: Satan and these other red state governors that are following
Speaker 1: in his footsteps with their big footing on municipalities and
Speaker 1: school districts for wanting to keep people safe. Thousands of
Speaker 1: children have already been infected with COVID nineteen. Many are
Speaker 1: going to die and are dying right now. And what
Speaker 1: is Joe Biden doing about it? Because I can recall
Speaker 1: that when Donald Trump was President of the United States,
Speaker 1: he threatened blue states left and right. Oh, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to give you any funding unless you kiss my ass.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna help you. I'm not gonna send FEMA,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give you aid because I don't
Speaker 1: like you. Well, how about we turn around and use
Speaker 1: that same type of energy for the greater good, which
Speaker 1: is Hey Florida, Hey Texas, Hey Tennessee, Hey Arkansas, Mississippi,
Speaker 1: and the rest of y'all. If you do not roll
Speaker 1: back your anti mask mandates, you will not be receiving
Speaker 1: any federal funding on anything. Why don't you start playing
Speaker 1: their fucking game and playing like you want to win,
Speaker 1: playing like you have some oomph behind you, because at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, they don't. Right, it's all
Speaker 1: handholding and stroking and playing to the bottom as opposed
Speaker 1: to playing to the top. It's all doing the middle
Speaker 1: of the road bullshit. And I'm telling you we are
Speaker 1: not living in times anymore of neutrality. Like I don't
Speaker 1: even like the fact that nalists are using the term
Speaker 1: anti masker. Just call them pro death, Just say that
Speaker 1: they are the pro death party. They are pro death
Speaker 1: and pro COVID pro pandemic. That's it. Because you set
Speaker 1: it up as if there are some type of fucking debate,
Speaker 1: and there isn't a debate, and then you have these
Speaker 1: assholes that are getting on these social media platforms and
Speaker 1: talking about, well, the vaccine doesn't work because people are
Speaker 1: still catching COVID. But guess what vaccines do work because
Speaker 1: the people that are catching COVID with breakthrough cases aren't
Speaker 1: dying and they aren't falling severely ill, and then they
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about the Russian roulette that we
Speaker 1: were playing in twenty twenty because they did what they
Speaker 1: needed to do in order to cover themselves and keep
Speaker 1: themselves safe. I believe wholeheartedly that had Donald Trump never existed,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't ever be in this place right now in
Speaker 1: terms of this division around vaccines, in this division around
Speaker 1: the pandemic, that things could have been orderly, they could
Speaker 1: have been thoughtful, and that when the vaccines were rolled
Speaker 1: out it would have been a praise God's celebration across
Speaker 1: America because we made it finally but instead we have
Speaker 1: the highest numbers of any place in the world, and
Speaker 1: yet we have the most vaccines. If that doesn't look
Speaker 1: like fucking global privilege, then I don't know what it is,
Speaker 1: because that's some Western privilege bullshit. Because there are people
Speaker 1: in other countries that are dying in the streets because
Speaker 1: they don't have the vaccine. They don't have the ability
Speaker 1: to get the vaccine. Meanwhile, you can get it at
Speaker 1: any fucking CBS and drug store across the country. And
Speaker 1: people are still flooding into hospitals, still filling up ICUs.
Speaker 1: There are makeshift bed and tense being put up like
Speaker 1: it is twenty twenty, when we had nothing other than
Speaker 1: the mask and social distancing and washing your fucking hands
Speaker 1: to combat this virus. And now once you have something
Speaker 1: that says, look, we won't die going to the grocery store. Look,
Speaker 1: you can share a meal with a friend again. You
Speaker 1: can move your life from outside of zoom. For these
Speaker 1: people that wanted to open up the economy so quickly,
Speaker 1: you would think that they would be the biggest propontus
Speaker 1: to get the vaccine, so we can go back to
Speaker 1: buck to normal. But no, let us march through the
Speaker 1: Greek alphabet instead, because folks, while we want to roll
Speaker 1: our eyes at these people, and trust me, I do,
Speaker 1: the reality is is that the longer that this virus
Speaker 1: stays around, and this is what doctor Jonathan Metzel tells
Speaker 1: us every fucking week, and later on in the show,
Speaker 1: doctor Marcella Nunez Smith, the head of the White House
Speaker 1: COVID Task Force, will say once again that the longer
Speaker 1: that this virus stays in the air, the longer the
Speaker 1: amount of time that it's given to continue to mutate
Speaker 1: on top of itself. And as Jonathan said yesterday, the
Speaker 1: virus is mutating thousands of times every minute, right waiting
Speaker 1: for that next silver bullet that works around all of
Speaker 1: the vaccines. And then we're truly fucked because we would
Speaker 1: have had an opportunity once vaccinations were rolling out at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year to really squash this and
Speaker 1: we didn't. And that's what we were in a race
Speaker 1: against time for, because scientists know how viruses work, and
Speaker 1: this one is an anomaly on a lot of fronts,
Speaker 1: but they know the more virus, the more likely it mutates,
Speaker 1: and our inability to catch the mutation before it is
Speaker 1: now completely in total, making the vaccines that we do
Speaker 1: have ineffective. I don't want to get to that place.
Speaker 1: And I know that you folks listening to this short
Speaker 1: as fuck don't want to get to that place. But
Speaker 1: I got to tell you that that's where I believe
Speaker 1: we are headed. I think that we are headed for
Speaker 1: a very long hard fall and winter again. And I
Speaker 1: am continually worry about the Petrie dish that we call
Speaker 1: our school systems, particularly in these states with governors that
Speaker 1: have turned themselves into executioners. You know, I just every
Speaker 1: day I say to myself, how do we get here?
Speaker 1: Why are we here? And every day it comes back
Speaker 1: to the bullshit from the Republican Party. That's how we
Speaker 1: got here. There lies the hatred, their cruelty, those are
Speaker 1: their values. That's how we got here. Coming up next, folks,
Speaker 1: is my conversation with doctor Marcella Nuniez Smith, the head
Speaker 1: of the White House Task Force on COVID nineteen. She's
Speaker 1: going to talk about the vaccines and the Fiser FDA approval,
Speaker 1: the Maderna pending approval, and where we go from here.
Speaker 1: Doctor Marcella Nuniez Smith, thank you so much for rejoining
Speaker 1: woke A f to bring us up to date on
Speaker 1: where we are with the vaccinations. This week, Fiser was
Speaker 1: just FDA approved for their vaccinations, and I heard earlier
Speaker 1: today that Maderna has filed for their full FDA approval
Speaker 1: as well. What on top of this news coming out,
Speaker 1: which I think is really good, right for those people
Speaker 1: that have been hesitant because they've been waiting for some
Speaker 1: other stamp of approval, we have had the most positive
Speaker 1: COVID cases in the United States in the world. This week.
Speaker 1: School is back in most of the country after Labor Day.
Speaker 1: It will be after that. What are your thoughts about
Speaker 1: where we are with vaccinations, about hesitancy and whether or
Speaker 1: not the FDA approval is going to move the vaccination
Speaker 1: numbers up. Yes, yeah, no, thank you. It's great to
Speaker 1: be back. Thank you so much for having me at
Speaker 1: such an important conversation. Notable really the full approval from
Speaker 1: the FDA this week for the Fizer BioNTech vaccine, and
Speaker 1: I think that is a watershed moment for us. I
Speaker 1: know people personally who've been waiting for that stamp of approval,
Speaker 1: as you said, and so here it is. You know,
Speaker 1: if this is what you've been looking for, it's arrived
Speaker 1: and please do go get vaccinated. You make a very
Speaker 1: sobering observation. Right now, many people, it's back to school season,
Speaker 1: it's back to work season, and where are we right
Speaker 1: now as a country with the increase in cases and
Speaker 1: even more really the hospitalizations and even loss of life
Speaker 1: that we're seeing. And I want to just remind everybody
Speaker 1: that right now, sadly, it's still a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
Speaker 1: And so when we look at who's in the hospital
Speaker 1: and who's losing their lives now, and these are largely
Speaker 1: preventable because of the vaccines, and all the vaccines are effective,
Speaker 1: not just fisor Maderna and Jay and Jay as well
Speaker 1: keeping people out of the hospital on the line, and
Speaker 1: so it really is important to get vaccinated. When we
Speaker 1: talk about children, I'm sure we will get into that more.
Speaker 1: We know how to keep them safe and how to
Speaker 1: keep them safe in school, and one of the strategies
Speaker 1: is to surround them with vaccinated adults and people who
Speaker 1: are eligible haven't gotten vaccinated. So really notable Fiser approved
Speaker 1: Maderna with the full submission, so that's coming, and then
Speaker 1: of course we would expect Jay and Jada to submit
Speaker 1: as well. Really key, But vaccines don't save lives. It's
Speaker 1: vaccinations that do, and that's what we need to see
Speaker 1: continued uptake in the number of people getting vaccinate. What
Speaker 1: can you tell us about the booster shots. The President
Speaker 1: has said to us that eight months after your second
Speaker 1: shot that you should now be getting a booster shot.
Speaker 1: Can you talk about that and why why we're thinking
Speaker 1: that this is important eight months instead of a year
Speaker 1: or what have you. Yeah, I know a lot of
Speaker 1: questions out there about boosters. Let me start off by
Speaker 1: just kind of pulling pulling a separate and aside a
Speaker 1: conversation about people who might have weakened immune systems, and
Speaker 1: that might be because of a diagnosis that you have.
Speaker 1: Our medications that you take at FDN CDC already came
Speaker 1: out and said that, you know, you do need a
Speaker 1: third shot to get that initial good response. So your
Speaker 1: primary series should be three shots. And I say go
Speaker 1: out now, talk to your doctors. Get that third shot.
Speaker 1: That's really important. So that's not a booster right, So
Speaker 1: separate from that is its conversation about other people who
Speaker 1: have intact immune systems. You know, when might we see
Speaker 1: immunity begin to wane, which is very normal in vaccines
Speaker 1: that we would see that. And importantly, what the science
Speaker 1: now shows that some of the evidence suggests is with
Speaker 1: the addition of delta as well, that that immunity might
Speaker 1: begin to drop in a way that begins to raise
Speaker 1: risks somewhere around that eight month mark. Really important. What
Speaker 1: the President announced is a readiness plan in consultation with
Speaker 1: the Medical Advisor team, saying it does seem inevitable that
Speaker 1: we will need to offer boosters and so to get
Speaker 1: ready for that. But the FDA still has to do
Speaker 1: their process and the CDC, and so this isn't going
Speaker 1: to happen sooner than the end of September. So people
Speaker 1: should not should not go out now. Importantly, the fd
Speaker 1: is going to look at things like safety, so wait
Speaker 1: for that again. If you're immunocompromise, that's separate. Go talk
Speaker 1: to your doctor now about getting your third shot. How
Speaker 1: do we deal with the fact that across the country
Speaker 1: right now, Arkansas governor has come out and said their
Speaker 1: hospitals are collapsing on the pressure. Texas I believe that
Speaker 1: it was one of the hospitals has now closed. And
Speaker 1: let me get this right. Memorial Herman Hospital and Western
Speaker 1: Houston has closed three of their twenty four hour emergency
Speaker 1: rooms because of the amount of people that are coming
Speaker 1: in with COVID. What is your message to people that
Speaker 1: are living in these red states, These governors who have
Speaker 1: decided that they don't need to have MASK mandates that
Speaker 1: they are essentially putting their constituents at risk and continue
Speaker 1: to do so as their hospital systems are crumbling under
Speaker 1: the pressure. Which what kind of message should we be
Speaker 1: sending to these governors, to their constituents in order to
Speaker 1: get them safe. Yeah, you know, it's unconscionable. This is
Speaker 1: not a political issue. It never was. The virus doesn't
Speaker 1: no party lines. This is a public health crisis. Public
Speaker 1: health officials should be the ones making the decisions, the recommendations.
Speaker 1: You know, we are not where we were a year
Speaker 1: ago because we know so much more, and that makes
Speaker 1: it all the more tragic and inexcusable. We know that
Speaker 1: mask work, we have vaccines that work, and to see
Speaker 1: politicians standing in the way of the best in public
Speaker 1: health science and practice, putting constituents at risk, it's unacceptable.
Speaker 1: You know, the President has said this. When it comes
Speaker 1: to schools, it is completely unacceptable. We have to make
Speaker 1: sure our children can be in school and be safe.
Speaker 1: CDC has clear guidance on what's needed there. The President
Speaker 1: has really directed Secretary Cardonar, his Secretary for Education, to
Speaker 1: use every level possible to make sure children can be
Speaker 1: safe in school. And you're right about the hospitals. They're
Speaker 1: stretched and stressed. We need the hospitals to be there,
Speaker 1: not just for COVID patients, but for everybody else who
Speaker 1: has a heart attack, a stroke, a car accident. And
Speaker 1: at this point it's really attenable the situation there. So
Speaker 1: it's not political. This is a public health crisis. Kudos
Speaker 1: to the public health officials in those states and cities
Speaker 1: who are stepping forth courageously putting science first. Last question
Speaker 1: for you is about what you said earlier, vaccines don't
Speaker 1: save lives. Vaccinations save lives, and we know that we
Speaker 1: are seeing and hearing about more breakthrough cases with in fact,
Speaker 1: with people becoming infected with COVID. The good news is
Speaker 1: they are not becoming hospitalized or dying. So what is
Speaker 1: your message for those folks that are saying, well, see
Speaker 1: that's why I'm not getting vaccinated, because you can still
Speaker 1: get COVID anyway. Yeah, I think that's so right, right
Speaker 1: to be able to say, Look, the vaccines were always
Speaker 1: intended to keep you away from severe illness, to keep
Speaker 1: us out of the hospital, and they're still working really
Speaker 1: really well of that. That's why there isn't a rush
Speaker 1: now to say to people who've been vaccinated, you need
Speaker 1: to go out and get boosted now, because they're still
Speaker 1: working right to your point, the breakthrough infections. And one
Speaker 1: of my good friends right now just texted me and
Speaker 1: he said, look, I got a positive test, but I'm
Speaker 1: feeling pretty good. I'm so glad I got vaccinated, right,
Speaker 1: And that's the idea there is that the vaccine is
Speaker 1: going to keep you away from the worst of COVID nine.
Speaker 1: That's still true. Delta it's different, right, and Delta is
Speaker 1: more contagious, and so we're not you know, this isn't
Speaker 1: the same kind of advice you're dealing with before. If
Speaker 1: you're not vaccinated, your chances of getting infected are incredibly high.
Speaker 1: And when we look in the hospital and who's dying
Speaker 1: their unvaccinated people, it's not too late. It is urgent, though,
Speaker 1: So please make that good choice for yourself. Your family
Speaker 1: wouldn't want anybody else grieving unnecessarily in our country. Doctor
Speaker 1: Marcella Nunia Smith, we thank you so much for your
Speaker 1: continued work and effort to try and and curb this pandemic.
Speaker 1: You know, doctor Fauci said, you know, lastly, doctor Fauci said,
Speaker 1: you know this week that we're going to be living
Speaker 1: with this for quite some time. Is that you're feeling
Speaker 1: as well? And do you do you have more hope
Speaker 1: as we move into fall in winter that it doesn't
Speaker 1: look the way it did in twenty twenty. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I can see the whole whole of optimism we have
Speaker 1: to now that we didn't have before you the vaccines,
Speaker 1: knowing what we can do to keep ourselves safe with
Speaker 1: a mask wearing. So we are in a different place.
Speaker 1: We know the clinical trials are well underway for those
Speaker 1: children who are under twelve, so we would anticipate emergencies
Speaker 1: authorization coming along for those age groups. So it is different,
Speaker 1: and I think it's important, and I agree very much
Speaker 1: with doctor Faucci. I mean, we live with other infectious disease.
Speaker 1: We live with influenza, for example, and so if we
Speaker 1: can move from pandemic to endemic, I mean I think
Speaker 1: that's huge, but we have all the tools now to
Speaker 1: really make a difference and bend the curve in the pandemic.
Speaker 1: I'm encouraged to see the number of folks stopping up
Speaker 1: to get vaccinated now. It is climbing quite Frankly, I
Speaker 1: think people are paying attention. Delta has gotten their attention,
Speaker 1: and you know, with the full approval, I'm sure there'll
Speaker 1: be additional employer and other mandates coming down the pipe.
Speaker 1: So I think more people will be getting vaccinated and
Speaker 1: that is good. Doctor Marcella. We thank you so much
Speaker 1: for your work, for joining us to keep us informed,
Speaker 1: and we hope that you will join us again soon.
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