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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Daily News, News

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Hour 3 of A&G features changes to our lives, Xi's strong words, something called "The Olympics", the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and Jack gets angry about women's soccer (tune-in to hour 4 for more).

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0:00.0

I think the use of masks is going to become more normalized.

0:23.2

I think people are going to use them on a voluntary basis.

0:25.2

And certainly people who are at higher risk from COVID, bad COVID outcomes or from influenza.

0:29.2

But I think going to work with the sniffles is going to be frowned upon.

0:32.1

I think businesses are going to have access to routine testing.

0:35.5

I think there might be symptom checks within certain settings.

0:38.4

If you have a Congress setting where a lot of people are getting together and might check

0:41.0

symptoms, fever guns might become more routine, even though they're not that helpful.

0:45.4

I think you're going to see a veneer of safety superimposed upon normal life.

0:49.8

Huh.

0:50.8

Is that good or bad?

0:52.4

Are we getting too caught up in that last tiny little fraction of safety?

0:59.2

That's what I was about to say, echoing my final words last hour.

1:03.6

There are civilizations that are on the march that are all about what do we have to get

1:08.7

done, China most notably.

1:11.7

And there are civilizations that are worried about that last degree of safety or weather

1:15.8

lobsters have feelings and those civilizations get crushed.

1:19.9

So I'm just trying to think this sure.

1:22.0

I'm trying not to have a knee jerk reaction.

1:23.8

I like Dr. Scott Gottlieb.

1:25.3

My knee jerk reaction is we're being way too careful.

1:28.4

I mean, we we we we we've lived forever, but certainly my entire life is all I can

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