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The Owen Jones Podcast

I got COVID - as pandemic's gates open

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Unfortunately, it finally got me - and the same goes for 1 in 75 people in the UK. In my case, I was infected before my second Moderna shot. So anyway, here's a hook for where we're at with COVID-19 and specifically Delta now - how serious is the situation, are there signs of hope in the data, will the government's strategy of blaming the public work, will the mass vaccination programme save us, or does a bleak winter beckon? I'm joined by expert Prof. Robert West to talk us all through it.


Also - Dawn Butler joins us after being kicked out of Parliament for daring to tell the truth about Boris Johnson's lies.


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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. Welcome. Welcome to the show. Great to see everyone or if you're listening, of course, lots of you listen to the show on the podcast, which we're delighted about just to get before we start just so you know, I do have COVID-19, unfortunately, I was tested positive.

0:24.0

Yesterday, I'll talk a bit about that a bit later on because we are very lucky to be joined by the Emeritus Professor Bob at West, I just pronounced, mispronounced the first part of that, we'll talk about that as well.

0:38.0

But we'll be talking about the situation with the pandemic. I am thinking a bit wiped out, but I'm feeling much better than I did yesterday, but I'll talk about that as I said in a bit, but obviously if I was feeling too ill, I would not be doing a show.

0:53.0

My first shot has almost certainly helped, and I will talk about that as well because there are certain anti-vaxxers who have jumped on this as per with their total unhinged nonsense, but I am doing fine, as you can see, I've got my water, I'm going to stay hydrated.

1:15.0

I'm obviously self isolating for 10 days from when the symptoms began last week, but I'll talk about, I'll talk about my own particular circumstances just because it's important.

1:29.0

When this happens to use your platform to make sure you don't inadvertently feel people undermine confidence in our brilliant mass vaccination program, which we should be very proud of, but we will talk about that in about 10 or 15 minutes.

1:44.0

But first, before I bring in the brilliant Don Bottlem, we're very lucky to have Don Bottlem who is, of course, the style of the moment, having been kicked out of Parliament for the heinous, outrageous, despicable crime of objectively stating an objective, incontrovertible fact that Boris Johnson lies.

2:07.0

He doesn't lie once, or twice, isn't lie just occasionally just to spruce things up. He lies as a central element of his entire governing philosophy.

2:19.0

And what Don did is read out some very striking examples of those lies, and as a consequence, he was kicked out for breaking parliamentary convention because we live in a country where to call out to realize is to be held to a count, whilst those who are responsible for those lies get away with it.

2:36.0

The only people who are held to a count for conservative lies in this country are literally the people calling them out.

2:42.0

So we will, I'm about to bring in just not quick housekeeping.

2:46.0

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2:54.0

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2:56.0

And to support all the work we do in brilliant team and the documentaries that we're going to make, we are doing a documentary about who owns Britain has been slightly delayed.

3:05.0

I've got COVID-19 and I can't leave the house.

3:07.0

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3:13.0

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3:23.0

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3:30.0

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3:38.0

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3:43.0

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3:48.0

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