Savage Love Episode 702
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com. |
| 0:06.4 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
| 0:16.1 | well, there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast. |
| 0:24.6 | On Friday, the Republican governor of Florida finally, finally issued a stay-at-home order, a decree. |
| 0:32.2 | Weeks after the state's beaches were packed with spring break revelers. |
| 0:36.0 | We all saw the video. |
| 0:37.4 | Better late than never, |
| 0:38.3 | I suppose, but it's a little like the mayor in Jaws waiting until after the Great White |
| 0:42.2 | has finished eating the very last kid in town before finally closing the beaches. Interestingly, |
| 0:48.4 | and by interestingly, I mean, whatever the fucking fuck, the governor's order exempts religious |
| 0:53.5 | services in Florida. |
| 0:55.6 | And it overturns stay-at-home orders previously issued by Florida cities and counties that closed churches. |
| 1:01.6 | The governor's order says that only essential businesses can remain open and people can only leave their homes for essentials. |
| 1:08.6 | And all those suburban megachurches that have opened up and abandoned |
| 1:12.3 | J.C. pennies up and down the state are defined as essential. Did the virus draft this decree? |
| 1:19.8 | California has the most cases of this coronavirus after New York, and Florida is headed where |
| 1:25.3 | California is now. So you would think that when Florida's |
| 1:28.5 | governor sat down to draft his stay-at-home decree, he might have looked to California |
| 1:32.7 | where health officials in at least one county have determined that fully a third of their cases |
| 1:37.4 | can be traced back to a church service. One of the largest outbreaks of COVID-19 in the entire |
| 1:43.1 | United States, 71 cases traced back to a single service at a California megachurch. |
| 1:49.6 | Here in Washington State, a church choir decided to go ahead with rehearsal at their suburban church. |
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