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Civil Liberties Still Matter In The Coronavirus Crisis

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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Elie Mystal of The Nation about continuing to commit to political issues even in the wake of biological troubles, freeing prisoners and caged children during the health crisis, patriarchy problems, the upcoming presidential election, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yeah, my mother is not expendable and your mother is not expendable and our brothers and sisters are not expendable

0:07.4

and we're not going to accept a premise that human life is disposable and we're not going to put a dollar figure on human life.

0:23.2

Here in Maryland some of the messaging coming out of the administration doesn't match.

0:27.3

We have the surgeon general and Anthony Fauci saying things that were almost completely opposite of that yesterday.

0:32.8

So we're just trying to take the best advice we can from the scientists and all the experts.

0:37.2

We're not victims of circumstance. We can make decisions to meet moments. This is a moment we need to make tough decisions.

0:48.5

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernan, so I don't want to be ego-centric, but I'm gonna have to be EPIE-centric.

0:56.6

See that here in New York where rates of COVID are doubling about every three days.

1:02.0

So I'm gonna begin with the word from my governor and I respect all the governors of Trump listeners, but I'm gonna talk a little bit about Andrew Cuomo.

1:10.1

Now I really recommend and I think you'll respect this. I recommend skipping any appearance by the president on the subject of COVID and the coronavirus.

1:19.0

At those things he's doling out really dangerous racism and lies. He's hit bottom.

1:23.5

They should not be shown and they should be censored as public health hazards.

1:28.6

Back to Cuomo. He spoke this morning from the massive Javit Center in Manhattan.

1:33.5

That's just so you know the place where our team Hillary watched the returns of the 2016 election.

1:40.4

Okay, never mind. The Javits is being repurposed with a thousand-bed emergency hospital for the sick and dying.

1:47.3

Cuomo has managed to scare up medical supplies, but not nearly enough.

1:51.8

And one thing that's really useful about these Cuomo appearances every day, national news at 11 a.m.

1:59.6

Eastern time.

2:00.9

One of the best things about them is that he doesn't pull any punches. He can deliver bad news and

2:07.4

news that doesn't redown to his glory. And what he just said very simply is we haven't flattened the curve.

2:13.6

The curve is actually increasing. That's where he cited the fact that

2:18.4

cases in New York are and this is just diagnosed cases are

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