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Accidental Tech Podcast

429: Digital Speedo

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 β€’ 2.5K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 123 minutes

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0:00.0

Today is a very big day for me because I am as of what six o'clock this evening. I am officially

0:07.3

Maxinated because two weeks ago at about six six thirty was when I got my second shot of Moderna and so I am

0:14.7

Ready to party except not really I haven't changed anything and don't really plan on changing much

0:18.8

But nevertheless at least I can walk around without fear of catching something that will make me dead

0:23.0

So I'm very excited about that. Yeah, congratulations

0:26.0

It'll be interesting to see like how we all like slowly warm back up to things like I think I think you know

0:33.0

Some people are you know some people never stopped doing anything some people are gonna, you know jump right into it the second

0:39.0

They're allowed to I think a lot of people are gonna have a much slower ramp back to like you know quote normal

0:45.6

Or at least like you know quote unrestricted behavior

0:48.7

Like it's really like so today literally just today

0:51.3

I was I was waiting outside my school to pick up my kid and

0:54.2

And I heard from one of the residents that the town has officially dropped the outdoor mask mandate

1:01.1

And I mean first of all, I you know, I don't know if I should verify that I probably should

1:05.6

But also like I thought okay, well

1:08.6

Should I take my mask off like I

1:11.4

In theory I'd want to but like how many people around town?

1:15.8

Know that they've dropped the mask mandate. Like am I gonna appear like a jerk if I and even though you know

1:22.4

There's I mean the president and that's that's a phrase that we cannot respect again

1:28.0

Said you know basically as you know that we don't need to really be wearing a mask outside it as much anymore

1:33.7

You know except in certain circumstances but for the most part like in most circumstances

1:36.8

We don't really need to be doing that but like it still seems like I don't know if I I don't know if I'm comfortable

1:41.8

I'm comfortable that I'm no longer at risk

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