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Welcome back to The Breakdown. It is Tuesday, April 14th. I hope that you guys are

coming back off of a great Easter weekend. Maybe you took a long weekend. Maybe there's no such

thing as a long weekend anymore because of quarantine. But either way, I hope you're doing well.

Earlier today, I went to Twitter to ask what people wanted out of today's episode.

I said that it was either going to be option one, five evolving COVID-19 narratives,

such as dollar strength, contact tracing, supply chains, and declinification, or option

two, catching up on the crypto conversation, such as Libra

Stablecoin risks, ton regulatory issues, and more.

And by a two to one margin, folks voted for option two, catching up on the crypto conversation.

Now, this could be a small sample bias, but I do think that I've noticed a certain amount of

corona fatigue in the podcast market, let's say. And I think there's a few reasons for that.

One is we've now been in this for a really long time, right? The hype and just heightened

everything of going into lockdown and watching this unfold before us,

while scary and tumultuous is also something that we want to watch in a really close way.

And you could see that in how people were paying attention in the first couple of weeks.

Now we've sort of settled into a new norm.

We've settled into a new reality. And in a lot of ways, we're just past the point where all we want is for it to end, for us to go back to some sort of normal.

Now, I've said before on this podcast, and I will say it again, that I don't believe there's

another normal on the other side. I still think we are woefully behind in terms of figuring out what it looks like to get us back to work

and all too willing to create this dialectic between health outcomes on the one side

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