People's lives are going to be disrupted on a daily basis, and as that happens, the alternate reality he's created is inevitably going to implode.

The president sought to defeat the narrative of COVID-19 with his usual tactic of, quote, censorship through noise.

But the virus is proving resistant.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

Italy has become the number one infection hotspot,

pointing the way to the future of containment and maybe politics too.

Yes, if the far right message is Italians first,

and then Italians have become pariahs because of the virus spreading there.

It kind of upends their rhetoric.

And revisiting the once-in-future paradigm of films about pandemics.

I felt that I was watching no longer like a very entertaining worst-case scenario,

but a thing that is happening all over the world right now.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield. And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Moments before tip off on Wednesday evening's game between the Utah Jazz and Oklahoma City Thunder,

the NBA scrambled to act on news that jazz star Rudy Gobert had contracted COVID-19.

Utah's no longer on the floor. The Thunder are no longer on its bench. The officials have gone back to the locker room.

The fans here in the arena don't know what's going on.

We don't know what's going on.

You are all safe.

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