#447 Pandemiversary

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Milly, Sami, and Amanda reflect on the one year anniversary of the day the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic. They recount the early, terrifying days when Milly almost got stuck in Europe, and recall the national failures that led us to 529,000+ deaths. They discuss mixed feelings about their own vaccine eligibility and share how the last 12 months have changed them. Finally, they explain what’s happened in the Breonna Taylor case one year after her death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Betches media presents Donald Trump was a stain on our country. I'm someone's daughter.
0:08.4	Congratulations, Mr. President. The Betches sub podcast. Mr. Vice President speaking.
0:17.1	Hello, I'm Amanda Duberman. I'm Millie Tumeris. And I'm Sammy Sage. And this is the
0:22.8	Betches sub podcast where seespan meets the group chat to help you process and laugh at the biggest
0:27.1	topics and US news and politics. Happy Happy Thursday. Happy Thursday. This has been a long week
0:35.8	because it's been for anyone every week has been so long for me lately. You know what though,
0:40.5	today is 311, which reminds me that Amber is the color of your energy. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Wow. I
0:49.2	just had to like dig through my brain for where that all. Millie, I really hope that this morning
0:54.8	as everybody was like, it's the anniversary of the pandemic. It's the anniversary of the pandemic.
0:58.4	Millie is just like actually. It's 311, baby. Yeah. That's so funny. Wow. That's like
1:06.9	high school me would have like been like, oh, yeah, yeah, totally. Yeah. I mean,
1:11.6	Pi Day is right around the corner. 30. Oh my god. I want to say it's Friday. Who's
1:20.7	Aileen. So by many metrics today, March 11th, 311 day is also the one year anniversary of the pandemic.
1:31.4	On this day, on March 11th, 2020, let's let's take us back. Joe Biden has just had just won a bunch
1:37.9	of primaries effectively closing off the path for Bernie Sanders to win the nomination.
1:43.0	On this day, last year, Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
1:47.8	The World Health Organization declared a global pandemic. And at that point, 31 Americans were
1:53.4	known to have died of COVID-19. The NBA canceled the rest of its season and a previously unknown
2:00.1	government doctor named Anthony Fauci testified before Congress that the coronavirus was about
2:05.0	to get a lot worse. Let's listen to Dr. Fauci one year ago, talking to Congress on March 11th,
2:11.5	2020. Is the, is the worst yet to come, Dr. Fauci? Yes, it is. Can you elaborate? Well, whenever
2:17.9	you have an outbreak that you can start seeing community spread, which means by definition,
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