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Just a block from Columbia University, over 100 pro-Israeli demonstrators urging American colleges to ban face coverings during protests.

No one wants to hear about COVID anymore. If you see somebody in a mask in an airport, everyone's like, who's that freak?

There is a lot of loud, fringe voices from the left and the right.

The left that's convinced that the pandemic is just as bad as ever, and we all should still be

masking indoors.

You're sitting on a subway train and someone puts on a mask like this and comes in,

you don't know if they're going to be committing a crime, they're going to have a gun.

There are calls tonight for college campuses to put a mask ban in place.

This comes after police on Long Island made their first arrest under a new law, which

bans masks in public. The Welcome to the death panel.

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health communism and a short history of trans misogyny at your local bookstore or request them

at your local library. I'm Beatrice Hathar Bolton, and today is our annual COVID-year-and-review

episode for 2024. I'm here today with my co-hosts, Artie Virkant. Hello. And

Jules Gil Peterson. Hello. And I know that Artie has prepared some opening points about what this episode is.

And since we have a lot to get through today, I'm just going to start us by immediately handing it over to him to walk through what we're going to be talking about and what this episode is.

Sure. So welcome to COVID year five.

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