Drowning in Contradictions

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The COMMENTARY podcast examines all the contradictory notions we’re being asked to overlook. How do you reduce the overall COVID-19 caseload and, also, gradually reopen society? How will reopening local businesses lead to a spike in infections if most people are still too scared to patronize them? How can Democrats rally around Joe Biden and, also, profess their belief that women who claim to be... Source

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0:00.0	music
0:23.8	Welcome to the Commentary magazine Daily Podcast.
0:26.7	Today is Monday, May 4, 2020.
0:30.1	I am John Puthwarts, the editor of Commentary magazine with me today.
0:34.7	Senior writer Christine Rosem, high Christine.
0:38.0	Hi John.
0:39.0	Associate editor Noah Rothman, high Noah.
0:41.3	Hi John.
0:42.3	Abe Greenwald is suffering through technical difficulties in his remote location.
0:48.9	And so we are sadly going to have to do without him this day.
0:55.8	So, a bunch of things to talk about in relation to the pandemic.
1:07.4	We find that the rate of the growth of the virus is slowing, but just because that's the
1:16.3	case doesn't mean that we're anywhere near the end of this thing, we will probably hit
1:23.0	70,000 deaths today or tomorrow on our way to what the president, even the president
1:30.1	said last night on Fox News is a minimum of 100,000 deaths.
1:34.5	And that's excess deaths.
1:35.8	That's not like, oh, they're assigning deaths to this and it's terrible and all this.
1:39.8	Like, there's at least as much evidence that we are undercounting as that we are overcounting
1:46.8	because of these astonishing numbers of excess deaths at this time of year compared to last
1:55.0	year or the year before last.
1:57.4	So the feeling that people seem to be having over the last couple of weeks that this is
2:05.5	really mostly a problem in New York and it's not really happening elsewhere.
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