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🗓️ 12 July 2020
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Al and Former Detroit Public Health Commissioner on the Mistakes Trump Keeps Making.
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody, great one today. Finally, my guest is Dr. Abdul-El-Syad. Dr. El-Syad is a doctor, |
0:14.0 | which is why I call him Dr. El-Syad. And he's not one of those doctors that over-prescribed opioids. |
0:20.2 | I would not have one of them on. |
0:22.9 | No, Dr. El-Sayed is an epidemiologist. |
0:27.6 | Why have an epidemiologist, Al? |
0:30.3 | Well, because we're in a pandemic. |
0:33.4 | That's why. |
0:35.4 | And we as a country are not handling it well. |
0:38.1 | And when I say we, and of course mean Donald Trump and his enablers. |
0:43.0 | And by that I mean Vice President Pence, Republicans in the Senate and Republican governors. |
0:48.8 | My God, these Republican governors, not all of them. |
0:52.8 | Hogan of Maryland, Baker of Massachusetts, |
0:55.6 | the wine of Ohio, doing a fine job because there really shouldn't be anything partisan |
1:01.7 | about a pandemic. You follow the science. You listen to epidemiologists because it's an epidemic. |
1:09.6 | But wow. Governor Kemp of Georgia, Ron, epidemiologists because it's an epidemic. |
1:11.6 | But wow. |
1:19.1 | Governor Kemp of Georgia, Ron DeSantis in Florida, Abbott in Texas, |
1:20.3 | Ducey in Arizona. |
1:25.9 | Hey, let's open the state, but not implement any of the CDC guidelines. |
1:27.2 | That's a good idea, isn't it? Kemp, you'll remember, |
1:29.2 | opened tattoo parlors, barbershops, and massage parlors immediately, and then a week later |
1:36.5 | announced that he was opening pickup bars. And wouldn't you know it? Just as epidemiologists had |
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