An Extremely Bizarre Plan to Play Basketball

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The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Rising case numbers, an empty theme park, and 22 teams in quarantine. What could go wrong? Joel Anderson, Slate staff writer and co-host of Hang Up and Listen, joins to explain what's going on with the NBA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:05.0	Hi, Catherine.
0:06.0	So historic stock market crash yesterday because people were afraid of this second wave of the virus as things reopen.
0:15.0	Well, it was hilarious in a really sick way.
0:18.3	You know, the news alerts are like, tons of people are dying,
0:21.8	there's all sorts of institutional failure all over are all around us.
0:27.1	People are being murdered by the police.
0:31.0	People who are speaking out against murder by the police are being abused by the police.
0:36.7	And the S&P is up X percent.
0:41.1	Yeah.
0:42.1	Yeah. And it was like day after day it was that and it was so it was just
0:46.8	it had a real real dystopian vibe like the the profiteers were totally confident that the profiteering would continue despite these horrors.
0:56.3	Right, no, no, I mean that's what that's Germain, like I think is really just starting to settle in on those people. The idea that there was going to be a bad phase but then
1:05.1	we're going to do this reopening and we're going to get to phase two in three weeks and
1:08.6	then another three weeks will be at phase three and everything's going to continue that way
1:12.4	and every industry is going to find a new way to reopen and we'll be fine, you know?
1:19.0	And it's all the sudden like just hitting that that's not the case.
1:25.0	Yeah.
1:26.0	The rates are going to continue to be steady and probably increase with reopening
1:31.0	and we are going to have this virus around for a very long time.
1:35.3	Right and there was a you know a projection from somewhere I forget that that we're going to
1:40.4	reach 200,000 deaths by September in the US.
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