Return Of The Mask

What A Day

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4.6 • 12K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Los Angeles County reimposed mask mandates this weekend for everyone indoors in a public space because the Delta variant is causing cases and hospitalization rates to climb. Last week, the seven-day average of cases in the U.S. went up by almost 70 percent in a single week. The Biden administration kicked off a public war against social media companies last week regarding their inaction on the spread of COVID misinformation, and Facebook responded with a blog post that accused the White House of "finger pointing." And in headlines: extreme floods in Germany have left at least 189 people dead, a federal judge in Texas ruled against DACA, and a new report on the reach of Pegasus spyware. Show Notes: NYT: “The Pandemic Has a New Epicenter: Indonesia” – https://nyti.ms/3ex2yCU The Guardian: “Majority of Covid misinformation came from 12 people, report finds” – https://bit.ly/3ksXl2M For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Monday, July 19th. I'm E. Kila Hughes.
0:08.6	And I'm Kila Nresnik and this is what a day where we are begging someone to take their
0:12.3	crying baby on Jeff Bezos' flight to space.
0:15.0	Yeah, and don't apologize either. Just let that baby shriek and say nothing at all.
0:19.3	Yeah, make them the first baby to get glared at in zero gravity.
0:22.0	Yeah, don't change their diaper beforehand either. Let it stink and let it be low.
0:31.5	On today's show, search and rescue efforts continue after devastating floods in Germany,
0:35.9	plus the Tokyo Olympics unveils cardboard beds that appear to be anti-romance, but first
0:41.0	the latest on the Delta variant's impact on the world.
0:43.6	I would say that it's not punishment, it's prevention. We still have 4 million people
0:48.8	out of 10 million that haven't been vaccinated, and many of them are young people, and we're
0:53.8	seeing that this transmission is so highly contagious that it will cost more in the long run if
0:59.5	we have to see our hospitals being impacted, our ICU units as well as our healthcare workers.
1:05.7	That was Hilda Solis, chair of the LA County Board of Supervisors on ABCs this week.
1:10.6	And she's talking about the county's recent decision to reimpose a mask mandate for everyone
1:14.8	indoors in a public space. That's for the unvaccinated and the vaccinated.
1:19.5	Local officials made the decision because of how cases and hospitalization rates are climbing
1:23.3	as a result of the highly transmissible Delta variant. But this example from LA County
1:27.7	is just one of the many that shows what the world is facing right now.
1:30.9	Yeah, I mean, that's exactly right. In countries like Namibia and Tunisia, for example, recorded
1:35.3	deaths of skyrocketed by something like 40% in the last week or so.
1:39.6	They are among many African countries who, by nature, if capitalism largely have ended
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