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Teaser - David Leonhardt and the Emergency of Normal w/ Abby Cartus (01/31/22)

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🗓️ 1 February 2022

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/61925249 Abby joins us to discuss the New York Times' pivot to full on covid skepticism, in the form of David Leonhardt's recent commissioned poll on attitudes about the pandemic, the corresponding interview on Times podcast The Daily, and a look back at two years of Leonhardt's downplaying of covid risk. Then, we take a look at the "Urgency of Normal" PR kit, a document designed to sell 'focused protection' to suburban parents. Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/71239…e-vierkant/ Runtime 1:25:12, 31 January 2022 🧬

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0:00.0

Well, let me take us on a little journey, though, if you will.

0:04.4

Yes, please.

0:05.3

I promise this won't take too long.

0:07.4

But I think it actually, all the stuff that we're talking about with regards to Leonhardt is only really going to be supported by some of the stuff that I'm about to bring in.

0:17.7

I looked at, I basically read every newsletter of his from the last two years

0:21.5

that mentioned COVID, which is most of them, although some of them are just like tiny mentions

0:25.0

or whatever, like little updates or like a link to something, whatever. But what emerged really

0:29.5

quickly was a couple of really obvious things, some really obvious stuff. Like for example, he has

0:35.4

said like four separate times during the pandemic that

0:38.6

COVID appears to be in retreat. That's February 11th, 2021, literally headline of his newsletter,

0:46.7

pandemic in retreat. May 21st, 2021, he tweeted out, COVID may now be in permanent retreat in the U.S.

0:56.2

October 4th, 2021, COVID in retreat.

0:59.3

Again, the same headline, basically, for his, for his morning newsletter.

1:05.7

And just recently, January 19th, 2022, Omicron is in retreat. What's next? So, I'm just imagining the,

1:14.6

uh, the Orson Wells, like, you know, the, the march of like the, the headlines and stuff,

1:19.1

except it's just the same headline every time. The, so in this January 28th,

1:23.2

2021 morning newsletter, he writes, the only one line from this that's important is, quote,

1:28.5

we may be in the very early stages of herd immunity. January 28th, 2021.

1:35.5

Wow.

1:37.0

If that, okay, you know, I recognize a variety of people may be listening to this for a variety of

1:42.9

reasons. If that doesn't get you to discount, David Leonhardt, I don't know what the fuck else I'm going to be listening to this for a variety of reasons. If that doesn't get you to

1:44.6

discount, David Leonhardt, I don't know what the fuck else I'm going to be able to say that will,

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