I'm Alan Alder and this is Clear In Vivid, conversations about connecting and communicating.

So the wearing of mask should be you take care of me and I take care of you and not I'm

in a vacuum I'm going to do what I want to do.

We've got to have that societal responsibility because we're all in this together Alan.

This is not something that 25 or 30% of the people can do what they want to do and think

they're not negatively impacting the rest of society.

You are, you may not realize you are but you are.

This hour long special of Clear In Vivid is a recording of a conversation I had with my

old friend Anthony Fauci during a live streamed event hosted by Smithsonian Associates on

September 23rd 2020.

It was some six months after it had been my guest on the show back in early March just

as the awful reality of the COVID-19 pandemic was becoming apparent and 10 days before we

learned of President Trump's diagnosis.

I talked to a doctor Fauci about what we've learned about the coronavirus that makes

it so deadly and what the prospects are for beating it back.

Dr. Fauci my hero I'm so glad to see you again.

Alan it's a great pleasure to be with you again.

I was looking forward to this.

I just came back from the White House where we had a task force meeting and I said now

let me go to something that's really going to be fun.

I think it is.

I had wanted to ask you all kinds of very forward looking questions about the future because

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