DV #74: California's COVID Disaster
The Ann & Phelim Scoop
The Unreported Story Society
4.7 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse in California, Gavin Newsom and his band of merry lockdowners have done it again. After a massive mismanagement of COVID data, one of the state's leading experts on COVID-19 has resigned. Newsom has also announced that the state will be unable to pay out full unemployment benefits that were decided by the Trump administration over the weekend. We discuss the latest on Newsom's shortcomings.
Also on today's episode we examine an article by our friend Lionel Shriver who points out some very interesting points about the pandemic in the U.K and the "overselling" of the virus.
And how are "COVID deaths" impacting total deaths across the world? In the UK, total deaths are down drastically from previous years. Are we over-counting COVID deaths or have deaths magically declined? You decide!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Anne McElheny. |
| 0:07.0 | And I'm Phelan McAulier. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to the Anne Filim Scoop Daily Virus, where we do what, Phelm? |
| 0:12.0 | Well, we discuss the latest news views, advice and madness of the pandemic. |
| 0:17.0 | Please God, the pandemic will be over soon, so Phelan will stop with that voice that I haven't grown to love over the pandemic. Please God the pandemic will be over soon so Phelan will stop with that voice that I haven't |
| 0:22.5 | grown to love over the last it's actually 21 weeks. 21 weeks I was going to kind of make |
| 0:28.0 | kind of a roll up to that. It's Tuesday August the 11th week 21 of the two week flatten the curve |
| 0:36.9 | lockdown and in our advice section today by the way |
| 0:41.0 | which we you know we haven't had a lot of advice by the way in the advice section of this |
| 0:46.7 | scoop don't trust the government but well and milk freezes and you can store milk by freezing |
| 0:53.6 | it is one of the big pieces of advice by by the way, that we had for the pandemic. |
| 0:57.4 | But the other one is that, you know, a lot of people are complaining that they put on an awful lot of weight and, you know, we have advice about that. |
| 1:06.3 | About, you know, the problem of people having put on an enormous amount of weight. |
| 1:10.0 | And our advice is |
| 1:10.9 | stop eating okay so if you stop eating you'll find that you won't have as much weight on |
| 1:21.2 | and that there's no actual mystery to the fact that you put on weight and you're wearing |
| 1:26.6 | I have big bones yeah no you didn're wearing. I have big bones. |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.7 | No, you didn't, |
| 1:29.3 | you didn't have big bones before or whatever. |
| 1:31.2 | You know, |
| 1:31.4 | you suddenly have developed big bones. Have you failed? Yes. Anyway, that's the... So what's on today's show today? Well, we've, you know, funny, before we get on to the teasers, I actually have a totally mad COVID fatality that we heard from the UK and I got this from the Spectator. |
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