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Explain It to Me

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Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Ezra and Matt review four major plans for after social distancing; plus the Democratic primary finally ends. Resources: Dan Hopkins' tweet "National coronavirus response: A road map to reopening" by Scott Gottlieb, AEI "A National and State Plan To End the Coronavirus Crisis" By Zeke Emanuel, Neera Tanden, Topher Spiro, Adam Conner, Kevin DeGood, Erin Simpson, Nicole Rapfogel, and Maura Calsyn, Center for American Progress COVID-19 Response White Papers, Harvard University "Simulating Covid-19: Part 1" by Paul Romer "Even A Bad Test Can Help Guide the Decision to Isolate: Covid Simulations Part 3" by Paul Romer "It’s time to move past employer-based health insurance" by Ezra Klein, Vox Hosts: Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, Vox Credits: Producer and edited by Jeff Geld More to explore: Subscribe to Impeachment, Explained on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or your favorite podcast app to get stay updated on this story every week. About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

While we are winning the ideological battle, and while we are winning the support of so

0:06.6

many young people and working people throughout the country, I have concluded that this battle

0:13.0

for the democratic nomination will not be successful.

0:17.3

And so today, I am announcing the suspension of my campaign.

0:30.0

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Fox Media Podcast Network.

0:38.4

I'm Matthew Glacias here today with Ezra Klein.

0:41.7

We're going to talk about Bernie Sanders, who recently dropped out on the presidential

0:45.7

race in a minute.

0:46.9

But first, we really wanted to try to dive into some of the different ideas about how to

0:53.6

kind of get out of the lockdown phase that we're currently in as a country.

0:58.7

Ezra has been doing, I think, a fair amount of reporting on this recently speaking to

1:02.2

some of the people who've been writing the plan.

1:04.5

So I'm just going to ask you, like, what are the big ideas that are out there right now?

1:08.2

Yeah.

1:09.2

So I think this is, it is really important that people have a sense of what comes after

1:12.5

social distancing.

1:13.9

And the more you look into it, I am going to just say to preview this conversation, the

1:18.2

worst it is.

1:19.2

This is not a comforting form of reporting I've been doing.

1:22.4

Right now, I think there are, there are probably more than this, but there are three or four

1:26.4

main plans that are floating around.

1:28.1

And I think the differences between them are very illustrative of what the actual binding

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