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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Rational Steps/Irrational Crazies

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

iHeartPodcasts

Daily News, Society & Culture, News

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Hour 4 of A&G features Dr. Dean Blumberg of UC Davis for a coronavirus update. Plus, Madonna continues to scare the masses. Plus, Joe asks about what we rational people should do when the irrational completely lose their minds?

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0:00.0

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0:29.9

15 so that people will have time and hopefully by that time will have people getting back to their lives.

0:36.9

We're getting rid of interest and penalties. However, if you have refunds or credits you would like to claim you may still file.

0:43.9

In other words, you can file early if you are owed money by the IRS.

0:48.9

The Senate continues to rassle over the economic relief package and will bring you some of the particulars of that this hour.

0:56.9

The financial stuff, the economic stuff, but right now let's concentrate on health with Dr. Dean Blumberg, Chief of Pediatric Diseases at UC Davis Children's Hospital.

1:05.9

Dr. Blumberg has been more generous with this time. Dr. How are you, sir? Good. How are you doing? Good. I assume you're still healthy at this point.

1:12.9

I hope so. Yes. How concerned are you about caregivers, doctors and nurses and their vulnerability to this horrendous disease?

1:20.9

Well, we're all vulnerable just like everybody else's since nobody's ever had this novel infection before, so we have no immunity to it.

1:28.9

Yeah, but I don't deal with sick people all day long either. Well, the sick people that we're dealing with, I don't deal with them right when they come through the front door.

1:37.9

So hopefully by the time I see them they're all screened and they're in appropriate isolation and we've got all the personal protective gear that we need to see them.

1:45.9

So I feel very confident with that when I'm seeing these patients face to face that I'm protected.

1:50.9

Have you been keeping an eye on the situation New York, the numbers that have developed there, the number of cases and deaths, etc. and what do you make of it?

1:57.9

Yeah, it's just going up logarithmically there. It's going up logarithmic in the U.S.

2:03.9

And so it's a scary situation and this is what all these dramatic edicts, the shelter in place stay at home is meant to try to avoid these rapid increases in cases.

2:13.9

I have in front of me a couple of extremely intelligent and well-reasoned pieces saying that the damage to the economy is not worth.

2:21.9

You know, the lives were saving. It's not that bad. This is crazy and they cite the Chinese statistics. How would you in short respond to those people?

2:32.9

That's cold. That's just really cold. Really. We're talking about people's lives here and we're talking about the people, you know, family members and individuals losing their lives.

2:41.9

And so I just don't see it that way. I think we've taken these dramatic steps too late and people need to realize that what's going on now reflects the infections that started occurring 10, 14 days ago.

2:55.9

So it doesn't take into account all the shelter in place that have been put in since then. That's going to happen later several days down the line.

3:03.9

But you buy, I take it the estimates that had we not really attempted to squeeze down on society and separate ourselves the risk of it.

3:12.9

You believe that it would be hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of deaths?

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