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On the Media

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On the Media

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🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Prepping for the worst, hoping against hope for the best. Welcome to our new reality.

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0:00.0

There is no greater moral crime than betraying your country in a time of crisis that appears to be what happened.

0:07.8

Profiting off the virus, just when things were looking so good. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

0:14.9

I'm Brooke Ladstone. And I'm Bob Garfield. For years, U.S. preppers have invested time and money getting ready for imagined

0:23.0

doomsday scenarios. So are they prepped?

0:26.4

You can't make up a story anymore. It doesn't work. We've got coronavirus, and it's not

0:31.4

hypothetical. It's actually happening. Also, a new podcast about the government response to Katrina

0:37.4

sheds light on what to expect in our current national emergency.

0:41.9

A lot of the lessons that we should have learned during Katrina were about how do we redirect government inertia into cutting the red tape to help people.

0:52.6

It's all coming up after this.

1:00.0

From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

1:04.4

I'm Bob Garfield.

1:05.7

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

1:07.2

To this day, nobody's seen anything like what they were able to do during World War, too.

1:11.6

And now it's our time. We must sacrifice together.

1:14.6

Obviously, there's a big difference between what we fought then and what we're fighting now.

1:19.6

It's the invisible enemy. It's always the toughest enemy.

1:23.6

And yet precisely the same threat is posed by what then and now could be called the enemy within.

1:31.3

The American people will not relish the idea of any American citizen growing rich and fat in an emergency of blood and slaughter and human suffering.

1:46.0

There is no greater moral crime than betraying your country in a time of crisis.

1:51.0

Fox is Tucker Carlson Thursday night, reacting to the story that Republican Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina

1:57.4

sold off a boatload of stock just weeks before the market crashed because of the

2:02.8

virus.

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