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BBQ Becky Redux, the Trump Cult, Lockdown TV Guide & TNG [ Preview ]

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Abby & Robbie Martin

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4.6814 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Preview clip of the Patreon exclusive Media Roots Radio episode with Abby & Robbie Martin that you can access for as little as $5 as a month: https://www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio Abby and Robbie talk about how surreal and long the Covid-19 pandemic feels and move onto the disturbing incident of a woman in NYC threatening death by cop on an African American bird watcher. They also discuss Trump's Hydroxychloroquine announcement and how bizarre it is that so many of his supporters act like they're in a cult by trying to rationalize every nonsensical rant he's ever made. The last third of the episode is spent discussing more movies and TV shows for quarantine binge-watching including a long list of Robbie's favorite Star Trek The Next Generation episodes.

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Let's talk about hydroxychloroquine because Trump, of course, just had that infamous moment where he was just like, yeah, I'm taking it.

0:08.9

I'm literally taking it.

0:10.9

And I have been for weeks.

0:13.1

Well, so this is one of the weirdest things ever.

0:15.5

So I've even noticed smart people getting sucked into this rabbit hole of believing that there is a

0:22.5

conspiracy to stifle the idea that hydroxychloroquine is a cure or really effective against

0:32.4

coronavirus, COVID-19. Now, I find that strange because, yes, there is a tendency by the mainstream media to

0:41.8

just attack and bash anything Trump says or does. So I could understand why some people would

0:49.5

be seeing the media's reaction to the hydroxychloroquine thing as like they would maybe even perceive

0:55.4

it as a conspiracy.

0:57.2

However, that doesn't mean that hydroxychloroquine is some kind of miracle cure.

1:04.1

And the data suggests that it's marginally effective in helping some people with COVID-19, like marginally.

1:14.9

And it does have severe side effect for certain other people, too.

1:18.8

So that's the real data.

1:20.8

If you collect it all together, it's not, nothing is saying that it's 30% effective.

1:25.9

It's 20% effective.

1:27.0

In fact, the data shows it something between like 2 to 5% of like mitigating the effects of COVID-19.

1:38.0

Now, you know, certain doctors around the world have decided that it is worth the risk of

1:43.9

the side effects

1:44.6

to administer this to some patients and there is some data to suggest certain doctors and hospitals

1:50.3

globally are doing this with certain patients but the idea that this is something that people

1:59.4

should be doing in general or taking as a prophylactic measure

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