COVID and THE COVID DEFENSE ACT
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 18 August 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Progressive Congressman Mark Pocan has introduced the Covid Relief Act- he joins Thom to share his plan to redirect one percent of the pentagon budget to vaccinating the poorest nations on earth.
Also- the possibly criminal link between Florida's governor and the Covid cure his billionaire patron is heavily invested in. Also, epidemiologist Dr Eric Feigl-Ding gives Thom a look at the latest science. Does the delta variant mean we'll never reach herd immunity?
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| 0:45.4 | Can Ron DeSantis is apparently has evolved and a symbiotic, you know, the Republican governor of Florida |
| 0:55.2 | has apparently developed a symbiotic relationship with Fox so-called news is I'd say fairly openly |
| 1:02.3 | running for president in 2024 as the next Trump. |
| 1:07.3 | And Trump, of course, likes to take credit for making DeSantis governor. He gave him his endorsement |
| 1:12.8 | and that helped him in the primary and then got him elected. It won by 34,000 votes after |
| 1:19.3 | his Republican predecessors purged about a million people from the voting roles in Florida. |
| 1:25.1 | So, you know, is Florida changing? I don't know. We'll see. You know, they're passing these |
| 1:28.9 | restrictive voting laws. But there's this extraordinary level of coordination. |
| 1:34.9 | Eric Cleefeld is writing about this over at mediamatter.org between Ron DeSantis and Fox News. |
| 1:41.2 | And not only that, DeSantis now has not only banned private businesses from requiring people to |
| 1:49.1 | wear a mask to come in or requiring people to be vaccinated, but he's also now promoting |
| 1:56.7 | Regeneron. Now, Regeneron is the monoclonal antibody treatment that Donald Trump and Chris |
| 2:06.3 | Christie and Rudy Giuliani all got when they got sick with COVID. They all went to the hospital |
| 2:12.2 | and they got this infusion. And it's got to be given by infusion. They put a tube into your vein |
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