Reopening without a plan

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Ezra and Matt on America's lost month and what happens next. Resources: "April was another lost month for Trump’s coronavirus response" by German Lopez, Vox "Flattening the curve isn’t good enough" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox "COVID-19: The CIDRAP Viewpoint" by Peter M. Sandman & Jody Lanard, Cidrap "Canada succeeded on coronavirus where America failed. Why?" by Zack Beauchamp, Vox "US coronavirus data is at odds with Trump’s push to get the economy back up and running" by Aaron Rupar, Vox Hosts: Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, Vox Credits: Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts 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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0:54.4	This is the most consequential and profound failure of presidential leadership in the modern
1:00.0	era.
1:01.0	Like, full stop.
1:05.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.
1:18.7	I'm Matthew Glacius, talking today with Ezra Klein, our topic as usual.
1:24.2	I've been thinking lately as we move to open things up in a way that feels unsatisfactory
1:32.5	to myself, most people I know, a lot of Vux readers, and in the spirit of actually trying
1:39.9	to be generous, something I did was look back at the original rhetoric around why we were
1:48.8	doing shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders.
1:52.8	The slogan at that time that was very widespread was that we need to flatten the curve.
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