Return Of The Mask
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
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
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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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