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Explain It to Me

America gives up on Covid-19

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Education, Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.47.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Ezra and Matt on the return of a virus that never went away. Resources: "America Is Giving Up on the Pandemic" by Alexis C. Madrigal & Robinson Meyer, WaPo "14 states and Puerto Rico hit highest seven-day average of new coronavirus infections" by Kim Bellware & Jacqueline Dupree, WaPo "How Trump uses a crisis: Repeal rules while nobody is looking" by Rachel Augustine Potter, WaPo Hosts: Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, Vox Credits: Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I thought the country was better than this in some kind of fairly profound way,

0:59.9

and beyond my fear of the concrete consequences, it's disturbed to me. It makes me sad. It's like

1:07.5

shaking my faith in society.

1:23.3

Hello, welcome to another episode of The Beads on the Box Media Podcast Network. I'm Matthew

1:27.6

Eglaceus here today with Ezra Klein. We started doing these chats to talk about the COVID-19 pandemic.

1:34.3

You know, we talk about other things too. The news cycle got onto some other stuff, but today I

1:39.5

think we wanted to come back to coronavirus because the virus is not gone, and in some ways it's

1:47.6

making it come back, and it's kind of alarming. More more good news on the weeds, man.

1:53.5

So there is disagreement over whether or not to call this a second wave or the continuation of

1:58.2

a first wave in parts of the country. It is like the beginning of the first wave, but it really,

2:03.7

we did not stop coronavirus. We did not suppress it. We did not have a huge fall in cases nationwide.

2:09.6

And meanwhile, both in ways that are statutory of states that have been opening up in ways that are

2:14.8

informal, like protests, but also even more informal than protests. We know that ridership on

2:20.0

subways, like in San Francisco, Bart has gone way up. We know that people are not doing nearly as

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