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Hello media consumers, Brian Curtis and David Schumaker of the Ringer here.

We got a lot of great stuff to get to today.

We'll talk about whether ESPN's Michael Jordan documentary can save sports fans, a TV

network, and humanity more generally.

We'll answer your listener mail questions, including which three media members would you

like to spend quarantine with?

Well, as David Schumaker guesses a strain pun headline and the overworked Twitter joke

of the week.

But David, as we enter a truly awful period of the coronavirus pandemic here in the United

States, I want to start with an issue that is manifesting itself here and all over the

world.

For weeks and months, politicians bummed around and did nothing about coronavirus.

Now they're doing everything, maybe in certain cases too much.

So let's talk about an important tricky issue, the coronavirus and government power.

I thought Josie Duffy Rice put it really well in a tweet this week.

This pandemic repeats a pattern we've already seen a billion times throughout American history.

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