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Ep 3 | Is the Pandemic over? Legacy College Admissions, Generation Z Voting Data, Facebook’s “Metaverse,” China’s Military Might, Rikers Island

Lost Debate

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News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6607 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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We discuss a host of issues from around the country: Bill Maher’s declaration that the pandemic is over [0:50] The problem with legacy college admissions [6:12] Gen Z political disenchantment [13:06] China’s surging military might [16:31] The crisis at Rikers Island [25:26] Subscribe to The Lost Debate’s YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF LOST DEBATE ON SOCIAL: Follow Lost Debate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostdebate/ Like Lost Debate on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lostdebate Follow Lost Debate on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelostdebate

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0:00.0

They're much more policy driven than other generations. Like other generations, it's like, oh, as long as my side wins, as long as my political party's in charge and I'm okay with it. Whereas Gen Z said, we don't care about Republican Democrat. What are you going to actually do for these issues? Welcome to the lost debate, unconventional media for the rest of us. I'm Ravi Gupta. And I'm Corey Bradford. We've got a pack schedule today. Corey, where are we going to start? We got a lot to talk about today, Ravi. First up, coming up, younger voters are more disengaged with politics than ever before. What does that mean for Election Day and next year's midterms? Also, China low-key launched a hypersonic missile. Robbie asked the question, will China's military surpass ours?

0:39.4

And finally, 14 people have died in a New York jail since last December.

0:42.8

I sat down with two experts on how staffing shortages have brought the infamous Rikers Island into further crisis.

0:48.7

But first things, first, is the pandemic over?

0:52.3

Robbie, I think that's a question that a lot of people are asking.

0:55.1

And Bill Maher did a really interesting segment about this on his show last week.

0:58.7

Let's take a look at that clip and see what he had to say about it.

1:01.5

I know some people seem to not want to give up on the wonderful pandemic, but you know what?

1:06.8

It's over.

1:07.7

There's always going to be a variance.

1:10.6

You shouldn't have to wear masks I

1:12.9

should be able I haven't had a meeting with my staff since March of 2020 that's

1:18.6

crazy so Robbie what do we think about this I mean is does Billmore have a point I

1:22.7

mean how much more of this do we have to endure before we get back to some

1:27.0

resemblance of what's normal?

1:29.3

Yeah, I'm spiritually with Bill Maher, even though I think we probably come out on some of the

1:34.4

issues differently about what we actually do about it. But he's got a point about people who cling

1:40.1

to the pandemic. I think if you've ever had the experience of, you know, either being sick and

1:44.8

spending a couple of days at home and not seeing daylight or just being depressed and not going

1:49.2

outside for a day or two, it's really hard to reemerge and get back to life as normal. And we've

1:54.0

now done this for a year or two as a society. And so I think a lot of people are really

1:57.7

frozen as they think about how to reengage with life as

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