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The Gist

Brainworms or Biden

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On the Gist, COVID-19 deaths continue to rise. In the interview, the second half of Mike's discussion with Dr. Rashawn Ray, a sociologist studying new methods of measuring implicit bias using virtual simulations of police officer decision-making at the Lab for Applied Social Science Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. He and his team are encouraged that by researching and educating law enforcement with real life social interaction training, they might be able to incite change in outcomes between officers and civilians. Ray is a Brookings Institution fellow and associate professor of sociology at UMD. Part one of their conversation is today. In the spiel, the Trump Biden ratio. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following program may offend those with delicate constitutions,

0:03.6

Baptists, FCC commissioners, and the former Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan.

0:12.3

It's Friday, September 4, 2020, from slated to the Gisdai, Mike Peska.

0:16.8

The US is at 187,000 COVID-19 deaths, and at the current trend,

0:23.4

we should pass 200,000 deaths within three weeks.

0:27.6

The port of a million by election day is not out of the question.

0:31.6

In a way, this isn't and shouldn't be a surprise, given how poorly we've handled the crisis

0:38.8

and how long it's been clear that we've handled the crisis poorly.

0:43.1

This was all forecast. On April 1, the Washington Post ran this item,

0:47.9

Debra Berks and Anthony S. Fauci, the leaders of the White House Task Force,

0:52.4

emphasized that although the projection of 100,000 to 240,000 deaths were likely,

0:58.8

they were hopeful that they could prevent such a high number by adhering to strict mitigation protocols.

1:06.3

Three days before that, here is what President Trump said.

1:10.8

So you're talking about 2.2 million deaths, 2.2 million people from this.

1:18.7

And so if we can hold that down, as we're saying to 100,000, it's a horrible number.

1:26.1

Maybe even less, but to 100,000. So we have between 100 and 200,000.

1:32.2

We all together have done a very good job.

1:34.5

Now I would say that will be replayed and he'll be held to account,

1:37.5

but there's just so much to replay and he's rarely held to account.

1:41.8

The death toll is, in many ways, inviolable. And think about how much isn't.

1:47.3

In the last two days, the stock market plunged, but job figures improved.

1:51.5

Trump has been raging about urban violence, but Paul show his raging has had little effect.

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