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So today, Artie Phil and I are here to talk in depth about a really important angle on the current state of U.S. COVID policy.

Recent CDC data shows that roughly 40% of people who died of COVID in January and February

of 2022 were categorized as fully vaccinated.

It has now become so obvious that the pandemic of the unvaccinated line is a lie, but the Biden administration shows no sign of changing course.

So we're going to contextualize what this means for the state of the pandemic and why this is

a bad omen considering the general policy direction that we're currently pursuing, because as it

currently stands, federal funding is a mess. The Biden administration is dragging its feet right

and left on COVID policy with an impressive lack of urgency, frankly.

For about a year now, the political rhetoric coming from Democrats has been that with vaccines, the pandemic is now a matter of personal responsibility.

And policymakers no longer have any responsibility or obligation to keep pandemic protections in place

or, God forbid, even expand them towards an adequate response.

Bleeding into now also even the new line that masking doesn't do much anyway.

Yes.

And you should give up on it.

Yes.

So we'll be getting into breakthrough infections,

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