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137: The Covid apocalypse that wasn’t

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The end of lockdown, climate alarmism and Simone Biles quits the Olympics. Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss.

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Hi, it's Fraser here.

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Before we kick off with this week's Spiked Podcast,

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I just wanted to give you another quick reminder

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that this episode is also available on video.

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then why not check out the Spiked

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podcast on video when you get the chance. You can either get it on the

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spiked YouTube channel or via the spiked website at spiked hyphen online

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dot com. Now onto this week's spiked. website at Spikes hyphen online.

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Now, onto this week's Spiked Podcast.

0:26.0

Hello and welcome to the Spiked Podcast.

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I'm Fraser Myers.

0:30.0

There's no Tom Slater this week, but we are joined by Spike's editor Brendan O'Neill.

0:34.3

Hello?

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And Spike columnist Ella Wheeling.

0:36.6

Hi.

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Coming up on the show, the COVID Apocalypse that wasn't, the government getting cold feet

0:41.9

over Net Zero, and Simone Biles withdrawal from the Olympics.

0:47.0

So we've had Freedom Day, all of the scientists predicted complete disaster, the opening of clubs,

0:56.6

the scrapping of social distancing, the binning of masks, that was all supposed to lead to an explosion

1:02.1

in COVID cases. In fact what we've seen has been

1:04.5

completely different. We've seen a sustained and rapid falling cases. At the time we're

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