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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wikay Up Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker, Folks.

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Speaker 1: In my conversation today with doctor Jonathan Metzel, our regular

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Speaker 1: Wednesday conversation, we're going to once again be talking about

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Speaker 1: COVID right because while America seems to have wanted to

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Speaker 1: turn the page, burn the book, forget that COVID exists

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Speaker 1: and is happening. We had doctor Fauci on a couple

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Speaker 1: so we don't need the same type of protections that

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Speaker 1: can assume some level of normal. I want to read

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Speaker 1: you this thread that came out from NPR Politics yesterday

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Speaker 1: that should be setting off alarm bells and I kind

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Speaker 1: of want to dig into. So here it is from

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Speaker 1: NPR Politics. They're thread from yesterday. The White House is

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Speaker 1: warning it will have to wind down a program that

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Speaker 1: pays to test, treat, and vaccinate unensured people for COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen because the administration has run out of money for

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Speaker 1: the program, which Congress fail to include in funding legislation.

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Speaker 1: Second tweet. Another immediate impact will be an end to

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Speaker 1: federal funding for monoclonal antibodies, a treatment that had been

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Speaker 1: provided free of charge, Starting next week. The White House

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Speaker 1: said it will cut allocations to states by more than

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Speaker 1: thirty percent to try and stretch its existing applies. Number

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Speaker 1: three tweet. The government cannot buy more oral anti viral

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Speaker 1: treatments like packs void beyond the twenty million treatments already

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Speaker 1: treatments for immuno and compromised people. The White House said,

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Speaker 1: excuse me, immunocompromise people. Number four. Research into next generation

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Speaker 1: COVID vaccines will be curbed, and some surveillance for new

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Speaker 1: variants will also be stopped, the White House said. The

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Speaker 1: administration said it also will need to limit its pushed

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Speaker 1: to help poorer countries vaccinate people. Number five. The White

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Speaker 1: House had asked for twenty two point five billion in

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Speaker 1: funding for these items and more, but was denied as

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Speaker 1: a part of a broader funding package. Democrats are expected

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Speaker 1: the Senate. Folks, what the fuck right? So I want

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Speaker 1: us to be very clear, right that the government has

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Speaker 1: so much so that it just released, oh, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: over thirteen billion dollars to aid Ukraine to fight back

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Speaker 1: against the Russian insurrection, right, the Russian invasion. So we

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Speaker 1: But we don't have twenty two billion dollars to be

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Speaker 1: able to allocate for people in this country to ensure

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Speaker 1: compromise people people who are uninsured, that you're receiving the

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Speaker 1: are in what a global fucking health pandemic. So how

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Speaker 1: is it that you can stand up at the State

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Speaker 1: It is bullshit, and it's the continual fucking lie that

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Speaker 1: I am so exhausted by when I tell you how

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Speaker 1: and I'll tell you why, because you see, I didn't

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Speaker 1: I had no expectations. But when you come in as

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Speaker 1: to vote for you so that adults are back in

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Speaker 1: and that you're telling me that how you stand next

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Speaker 1: the numbers of people getting COVID in New York City

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Speaker 1: end of the tunnel, it is the next fucking COVID search.

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Speaker 1: So now we have a situation where those that are

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Speaker 1: right because in New York City, regardless of your insurance status,

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Speaker 1: And so what this NPR tweet thread and report is

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Speaker 1: wave of omicron infected forty five percent of the US population,

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Speaker 1: But this, folks, this what is being outlined here. But

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Speaker 1: of pretty much every single mandate that was put in place,

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Speaker 1: um with them now all being erased, and we're watching

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Speaker 1: what is happening in Europe, how is it not? How

435
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Speaker 1: how is it that we're locked into this belief still

436
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Speaker 1: that it's not going to affect us like we have

437
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 1: we've stopped. I mean, I you know, tried to not

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Speaker 1: watch as much cable news as I used to. I like, I,

439
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:36,479
Speaker 1: you know, for my own sanity and emotional protection, I

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Speaker 1: try to just dip in for like a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But I have noticed and my mother, you know, I

442
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Speaker 1: was home with her over the weekend, and my parents

443
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 1: and they're like, nobody talks about COVID anymore, like at all,

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Speaker 1: you know, not the numbers, not the infection rates, not

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Speaker 1: the deaths, nothing, And so like, how is it that

446
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: we're back into this place of believing that we can

447
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: will this virus away and it's showing up aggressively again

448
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: in another place that we know we're behind three to

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Speaker 1: six weeks. Yeah, I mean again, the three, the three

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Speaker 1: main points to pay attention to right now. Number one,

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Speaker 1: cases are spiking seriously in places that have been precursors

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Speaker 1: to the United States and have demographically and infectiously similar

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Speaker 1: profiles in a way, And so number one, it's happening

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Speaker 1: other places. Number Two, there's a new variant, and we

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Speaker 1: don't know how bad it is, right we haven't done

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Speaker 1: the data yet. Again, I keep waiting for happy COVID

457
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 1: that grows hair on your head, gives you a four

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Speaker 1: hour erection, but it hasn't happened yet. But so we

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Speaker 1: don't know how bad this thing is. And honestly, it

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Speaker 1: could be bad. We honestly don't know. I will say

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00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: that in a lot of other places they're they're building

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Speaker 1: overflow intensive care units and things like that. So a

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Speaker 1: lot of other places think it's bad. And number three,

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Speaker 1: we're not paying attention. So that's that's a luxury we

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Speaker 1: have at this moment. The question is two three weeks

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Speaker 1: from now, how are we going to feel about that?

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Speaker 1: And I honestly don't know. I don't know the answer.

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Speaker 1: So um, you know, it could be it could be

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Speaker 1: that it's not a big deal. But I'm I mean

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Speaker 1: The hard part is I'm going to try to keep

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Speaker 1: playing it safe, especially for the next two weeks. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to think about think about, you know, when was

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Speaker 1: my last booster, and think about maybe thinking about another booster.

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Speaker 1: If I'm at the six month mark or the five

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Speaker 1: month mark, I'm going to figure out, you know, just

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Speaker 1: kind of put it in my mind, because it's I

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Speaker 1: don't know, we don't we don't know where we're going

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Speaker 1: to be in two weeks. And of course we're all

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Speaker 1: distracted by the rest of the world imploding and Chernobyl

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Speaker 1: and everything. We're just living. We're living like we're honestly,

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Speaker 1: we're living the eighties all over again, with like Chernobyl

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Speaker 1: and Van Drago and everything like that and so um

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Speaker 1: and so there's a lot going on right now. But

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Speaker 1: I would say that two weeks from now, if this

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Speaker 1: thing turns out to be as bad here as it

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Speaker 1: is in other places, people are gonna want to wit.

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Speaker 1: People are gonna wish that they that they took this

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Speaker 1: thing a little bit more seriously now. So I say

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Speaker 1: now is the time to be cautious, which, of course,

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Speaker 1: of course it's hard to do whenever when it's freezing outside,

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Speaker 1: and everybody's eating inside. I thought, fuck it, I'm eating inside,

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Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I mean I'm gonna I'm I have

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Speaker 1: done the same thing, right, like I have. I have

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Speaker 1: done the same thing. The thing that I am most

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Speaker 1: nervous about, and I want to get your thoughts on, is,

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Speaker 1: to date, I have not tested positive for COVID either.

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Speaker 1: But I'm really now concerned because in one of the

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Speaker 1: articles that I was reading, it's saying, well, for for

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Speaker 1: half the population that got omicron that they're going to

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Speaker 1: be better off with this sub variant, then the rest

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Speaker 1: of us who are boosted vaccinated but didn't get it,

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Speaker 1: and so and then and here's the other thing too,

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Speaker 1: because you just brought it up my booster, right. So

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Speaker 1: the third shot was in November, Viser CEO came out

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Speaker 1: and again I found this like just a little thread

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Speaker 1: in the Twitter because once again was not being talked

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Speaker 1: about on cable news. Visor CEO came out and said,

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Speaker 1: so pretty sure y'all need a fourth shot, right, He's like,

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Speaker 1: he's like, you need a fourth shot. We're working on

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Speaker 1: a long term vaccine that will you know, be be

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Speaker 1: working for at least a year, but we're not there.

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Speaker 1: So if you're if you are waning to that side,

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Speaker 1: like I am five months, six months, you need to

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Speaker 1: get a fourth shot. And I'm like, are we even

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Speaker 1: allowed to get fourth shots right now? Is that is

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Speaker 1: that a thing? Yeah? Well then I'm going to get one. Yeah, yeah, don't.

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Speaker 1: I mean there's a great strategy for doing that. It's

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Speaker 1: called lying um and and I recommend you do it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the problem is the formulation of the vaccine

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00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: that's still out there is still the delta formulation. There

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Speaker 1: is an omicron specific vaccine that they've been testing, and

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Speaker 1: I don't see why they're not like rolling that thing

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Speaker 1: out like yesterday. Um. So it's still the older formulation

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Speaker 1: of the vaccine. So it's it's good you want to

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Speaker 1: have high antibodies at a time like this. Um. But yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: I would just say, lyeing, go get this shot. I

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Speaker 1: mean I think that that's that that that that's one

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Speaker 1: reasonable strategy. UM. Don't don't quote me on that, don't

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Speaker 1: put me on television about that or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: But um but um, but no, I think that right

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Speaker 1: now is the time to right now is the time

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Speaker 1: to um to be a little defensive. And I do

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Speaker 1: I think you're right that if it's it's an overcron subvariant.

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Speaker 1: People who did I mean I didn't. I haven't gotten

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Speaker 1: it either, And so I asked my friend this morning,

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Speaker 1: is there a place I can rush out and get

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Speaker 1: the old omicron? You know? But you know, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think you're still better off having not had it,

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Speaker 1: because there are plenty people who are having long COVID

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Speaker 1: symptoms now from right, which again you know again people

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Speaker 1: are not and by people, I mean the administration, I

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Speaker 1: mean the CDC, I mean folks that have been going

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Speaker 1: on television for the past two years to talk about

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Speaker 1: COVID are not talking about long COVID and what I'm

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Speaker 1: hearing And there was a report in the New York Times, Oh,

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Speaker 1: we think that long COVID really affects your brain, right,

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Speaker 1: like that it's not just people having to work back

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Speaker 1: up to the respiratory levels that they had pre COVID,

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Speaker 1: but that they're having brain issues, right, They're having memory loss,

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Speaker 1: they're having focus issues, they're having migrains and all of

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Speaker 1: these things. Jonathan, do you think that this administration is

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Speaker 1: going to be caught flat footed in the next couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks because of the push to go back to work,

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Speaker 1: go back to normal, go back to the way that

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Speaker 1: things were. This is what has been coming out of

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Speaker 1: this administration for the last three weeks. We had doctor

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Speaker 1: Fauci on a couple of weeks ago who said, you know,

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Speaker 1: when it's pouring, you wear galoshes in a raincoat. It's

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Speaker 1: drizzling now, so you can take off, you know, you

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00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 1: can take off some layers. What's happening in China and

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Speaker 1: Europe and Israel is actually stating otherwise that it's it's

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Speaker 1: not drizzling actually right, that the storm is in a

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Speaker 1: different location right now, but it is actually you can

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Speaker 1: see it in the horizon. Yeah, I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: I think that's right. The hard thing from my perspective

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Speaker 1: right now is that it's not like they are very

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Speaker 1: smart scientists and public health researchers in the administration. It's

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Speaker 1: just the the pandemic became political for everyone, right. It

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Speaker 1: became an untenable political response for the Democrats to be

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Speaker 1: saying we need to stay cautious. That was actually that

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Speaker 1: was going to cost them the midterms. It was going

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Speaker 1: to cost them everything, and so health became political for

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Speaker 1: the Democrats. Also, is a reaction to it becoming so

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Speaker 1: political for the Republicans. And so it's not like the

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Speaker 1: Democrats are being driven by sound science right now. They're

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Speaker 1: trying to basically say, oh, mandates, no, no, that that's

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Speaker 1: that's you know, that's somebody must be somebody else mandates,

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Speaker 1: that's not us. And so in a way, nobody's making

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Speaker 1: decisions that are about health right now. And it's true

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Speaker 1: on both sides. I mean, Eric Adams, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: easy to become mayor of New York two months ago,

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Speaker 1: when the cases are falling and everybody's vaccinated, you can say,

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Speaker 1: you know whatever, go everybody go to a strip club,

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Speaker 1: you know whatever. M But but but in a month

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Speaker 1: when things are going crazy, what's the Eric Adams position

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Speaker 1: to be. I mean, that's when things get hard. Like

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Speaker 1: he can be all chummy with Kyrie Irving now, but

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Speaker 1: if things start to get serious again, is he is

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Speaker 1: he can be able to turn the corner and say, look,

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Speaker 1: we got to take this seriously again. That's that's really

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Speaker 1: the hard question, because you know, nobody I think I

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Speaker 1: just think they realized that from a population science level,

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Speaker 1: that it became unmanageable. And and again it's it's hard

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Speaker 1: because I mean there's so much anger, frustration, beer in

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Speaker 1: the world, and then the weather starts getting nice and

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Speaker 1: the many you take off your mask for the first time.

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Speaker 1: I mean I totally understand that. For me, I thought, man,

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Speaker 1: I can go back to my life of just waking

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Speaker 1: up in a different hotel room every morning and not

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Speaker 1: knowing where I am or how I got that's the

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Speaker 1: life you had, good doctor, Yeah, who is Like who

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Speaker 1: is who is this person? And how did I get here?

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Speaker 1: And sneaking out with my clothes and like I missed

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Speaker 1: that life that you missed that life, but like clearly

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Speaker 1: the nineteen seventy Yeah, but but but and so it's

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Speaker 1: hard because like the minute you have a touch of

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Speaker 1: normal normalcy, you recognize kind of oh we lost that's

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Speaker 1: what we lost. Um but but but but again, you

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Speaker 1: know again it's just resilience. Unfortunately, I don't know. It's

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Speaker 1: like all these things I was thinking the other day,

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Speaker 1: like COVID and putin are exactly the same, Like this

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Speaker 1: thing you kind of stopped paying attention to and then

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Speaker 1: they come back and show you like with a vengeance.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, So you know the last question that

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Speaker 1: I have for you, Jonathan today, is we have seen

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Speaker 1: these spikes happen at different seasons, right like we have

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Speaker 1: We have noticed notably, you know, the late fall winter

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Speaker 1: has been really bad in the United States. Spring and summer. However,

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Speaker 1: even though Delta was this covered in the summer of

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Speaker 1: what twenty twenty or twenty twenty one, I don't remember.

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Speaker 1: Is it better if there is a surge that happens,

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Speaker 1: that it happens for us in the springtime because we're

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Speaker 1: able to be outside, because you're not going to be

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Speaker 1: lowered into you know, the indoor dining or indoor things,

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00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: and there is such a desire particularly here, you know,

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Speaker 1: on the East Coast, that things start to get warmer.

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Speaker 1: Is that is that a better scenario for us rather

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Speaker 1: than a fall a late fall winter? I mean absolutely.

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Speaker 1: If it's an airborne virus, you want to be outside,

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Speaker 1: and that's always going to be true. The thing is,

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Speaker 1: we had never seen a virus during the pandemic spread

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Speaker 1: as quickly as the Big Oh last December, and we thought,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, how could it spread that fast? And

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Speaker 1: now this new variant spreads thirty times faster than that,

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Speaker 1: and so the virus is always going to try to

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Speaker 1: find our patterns and then subvert right the whole goal

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Speaker 1: of the of the viruses to be more infectious than

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Speaker 1: the one that came before. And so this new variant

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Speaker 1: is going to have some new rules and and and

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Speaker 1: the other thing we haven't even spoken about is we're

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Speaker 1: defunding COVID research right now in a pretty significant way.

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Speaker 1: And so there are real implications for just our health apparatus,

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Speaker 1: our healthcare, all these kind of things. And so we're

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Speaker 1: you know, the risk is a knowledge vacuum in a

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Speaker 1: particular way. Well, Jonathan, we here at least unwoke af

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Speaker 1: We'll continue to keep our eyes open and have conversations

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Speaker 1: about COVID even if the mainstream and the rest of

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Speaker 1: the world has moved on. I wouldn't say the rest

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Speaker 1: of the world. I'll say the United States has moved

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Speaker 1: on and think that we're past it. I'll tell folks

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Speaker 1: that are listening to stay vigilant, to read up on

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Speaker 1: what is what is happening, because you're not going to

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Speaker 1: see it on cable news until it gets to a

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Speaker 1: fever pitch. And we don't need things to reach yet

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Speaker 1: another fever pitch when we know exactly what it is

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Speaker 1: that we need to do, which is wear masks and

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Speaker 1: be really thoughtful about how we gather and where we gather. So, folks,

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Speaker 1: this is your first warning as we learn more about

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Speaker 1: the omicron subvariant. Jonathan, as always, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for making the time to walk us through the latest.

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Speaker 1: That is it for me, dear friends today on woke

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Speaker 1: a app. As always, Power to the people and to

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Speaker 1: all the people power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.