Political Gabfest - Who Should Get the Vaccine?
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Emily, David and John discuss the politics of violence in the U.S. and are joined by bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel to talk about COVID vaccine distribution, and by Edward Ball to talk about his new book, Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Jamelle Bouie for The New York Times: “Trump Needs His Own Sister Souljah Moment”
Science Magazine: “An Ethical Framework for Global Vaccine Allocation”
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: “National Academies Release Draft Framework for Equitable Allocation of a COVID-19 Vaccine, Seek Public Comment”
Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy by Edward Ball
Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball
Julian Kozlowski, Laura Veldkamp, and Venky Venkateswaran for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: “Scarring Body and Mind: The Long-Term Belief-Scarring Effects of COVID-19, Working Paper 2020-009A”
Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:
Emily: Marc Levy for the Associated Press: “Pennsylvania High Court Takes Up Another Election Lawsuit”
John: Elizabeth Bernstein for the Wall Street Journal: “The One Thing You Can Control Right Now: Yourself”
David: Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley
Listener @GreenNeck: Bridget Alex for Discover: “Which Ancient City Is Considered the Oldest in the World?”
Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Gabfest each week, and access to special bonus episodes throughout the year. Sign up now to listen and support our show. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John discuss whether we’ll consider this the most important election of our lifetimes thirty years from now.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Gab Fest contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.9 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for September 3rd, 2020. |
| 0:15.7 | The Who Should Get the Vaccine Edition? |
| 0:18.4 | I'm David Plotz. |
| 0:20.4 | No longer, Business Insider. I'm about to start |
| 0:22.9 | something new, but not quite ready to say what that is. But I'm a free agent at the moment. |
| 0:28.9 | Only if you're a business insider, do you know David's business? In any case, I'm merely David |
| 0:34.9 | Plotz. That second voice you heard was John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes. Hello, John Dickerson. Hello, hello. Good to be with you, David Plotz, no longer of Business Insider. And the first voice you heard was Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. Hello, Emily. Hello, hello. I'm glad to be here with you. It feels like a normal day. |
| 0:56.7 | Emily's in New Haven, but she's wearing a Philly T-shirt. Yes, which my youngest sister Dana gave me, |
| 1:02.3 | which I really like wearing. On today's Gab Fest, the unrest in Kenosha and Portland and elsewhere, |
| 1:10.4 | death in the streets, murder in the streets, |
| 1:13.4 | President Trump fanning promoting violence, what is going on, what is to be done about this. |
| 1:20.0 | Then the president seems to be preparing to release a vaccine before election day, whether or not it is ready. |
| 1:26.2 | We will talk to Zeke Emanuel, leading scientist, ethicist about the prospect of an early vaccine and then who |
| 1:35.0 | should get that vaccine and when they should get that vaccine. And then Ed Ball has written |
| 1:40.3 | a fascinating book about an ancestor of his, an early member of the KKK, a book that |
| 1:46.6 | tells us a huge amount about the power and nature and persistence of white supremacy in the |
| 1:51.0 | U.S. We will talk to him. And dear Gaffetz, listeners, we have a live show. We're going to have a |
| 1:56.8 | live show on Wednesday, the 16th of September at 7 p.m. |
| 2:02.5 | So in about two weeks, 7 p.m. Eastern time with the Texas Tribune Festival, our dear friends down in Austin, who put on an amazing festival. |
| 2:11.3 | This year will be a more virtual festival, and we will be doing a live show and partnership with them. |
| 2:15.7 | You can go to slate.com slash live to get |
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