Ep. 191 - Coronavirus Special + Action Steps

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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On this special episode of The Breakdown Shaun unpacks and explains why The United States is in a particularly dangerous position with the coronavirus and what we can do about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you are listening to the breakdown, you are probably concerned about the coronavirus.
0:04.8	Instead of me just ignoring that, like that's not an actual thing.
0:08.8	Today I'm going to try to unpack and explain it.
0:11.2	My entire team has consulted public health experts, we've
0:15.4	consulted infectious disease experts and others. I'm going to try to really
0:19.7	explain not just what the virus is but the impact that it could have on our daily lives.
0:25.0	I'm going to give us some action steps and I don't just mean wash your hands, but yes,
0:28.8	wash your damn hands all the time, but we're going to go deeper than that. We're going to give you some action steps,
0:34.4	some things that you can begin advocating for, but if we don't, could really make this
0:40.4	a pandemic and the World Health Organization says we are right on the verge of that.
0:45.2	All right?
0:46.2	This is Sean King and you are listening to the breakdown.
0:49.9	The breakdown. Breakdown.
0:54.0	The Breakdown.
0:55.0	The Breakdown.
0:56.0	The Breakdown.
0:57.0	Unless you've been
1:02.0	Unless you've been living under a rock and truthfully maybe even if you've been
1:07.3	living under a rock you have heard of the coronavirus and as you already know we are in the middle of what the
1:15.4	world health organization is calling a global pandemic. So this isn't just a
1:20.8	creation of the news media, the World Health Organization, the
1:24.2	CDC and others, even the conservative-led CDC, are openly calling this what it is,
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