Ep. 195 - Join our new team to help people impacted by the Coronavirus

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Colleges and schools are closed. Thousands of businesses have shut down. People are afraid and they are out of work. We're forming our own mutual aid society to help one another. Listen and join us today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yesterday in Italy, 386 people who had been tested and diagnosed with the coronavirus died.
0:09.0	Yet people are still saying it's fake, it's a hoax, is caused by cell phones, and I want to say something,
0:16.0	I want to offer an olive branch to you.
0:19.0	Even if all of that is true, which it is not. Here's what I know is true. Everyday people's lives are already
0:27.8	being greatly impacted by this. Schools, elementary schools, middle schools, high schools,
0:34.0	colleges are being shut down.
0:36.0	Restaurants, movie theaters.
0:38.0	Yesterday, the CDC said no gatherings over 50 people.
0:41.0	Entire industries are being decimatedimated people are losing their jobs people don't know how they're going to take care of their kids and they need our help
0:50.1	We're forming a team today. I want you to be a part of it. Today is an action
0:55.0	step episode and we need all hands on deck. This is Sean King and you are
1:00.1	listening to The breakdown. The breakdown.
1:05.0	The breakdown.
1:07.0	The breakdown.
1:08.0	The breakdown. The breakdown. Yes, the coronavirus is real.
1:17.0	It's hard to see people right now saying that it's not real, that it's a hoax, that is
1:26.2	fake news.
1:28.3	Some of that comes from Donald Trump, but it's not just from Trump.
1:31.7	You know, when fear sets in in a society, conspiracy theories
1:38.1	abound and there's a whole community of people saying it's caused by 5G cell service.
1:47.0	Who knows? I have no idea if the coronavirus is impacted by our cell phones or not.
1:57.0	Let's say our cell phones do impact it, okay? What I know is all over the country now nearly 200,000
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