To hear the full episode, become a patron at patrian.com slash netpanel pod. It's been a little bit since we've

been able to do a proper COVID check-in. So much has happened since our last one a couple weeks ago,

and we're now fully heading into COVID-Winter 3. The past year so far has been, as we've been

saying for months, a long process of normalizing mass

infection. And COVID normalization is near fully solidified. It's harsh, and data has grown hazy,

spotier than it already was. The CDC reporting on data has dropped from a daily to a weekly

basis. And still between September 28th and October 26th, there were over 11,400 confirmed COVID

deaths in the United States.

That's about 400 deaths a day for 28 days.

And of course, the plan to transition COVID care, therapeutics, and vaccines to the private

market is still underway.

And meanwhile, I know this is a lot, but there has been a lot of updates. Mainstream COVID coverage has barreled full

tilt into the lockdowns were worse than the COVID itself era, with discourse emerging,

asserting that pandemic protections created a so-called immunity debt.

So first, let's get into the Biden administration's newly released fall COVID plan,

which includes a fall playbook for businesses and a really, you know, this is where I want

to start, actually.

The fall COVID plan, though, includes a partnership between Walgreens, Uber, and DoorDash

to basically do sort of focused protection expansion.

I swear I'm not joking.

Let me just read the White House's fact sheet on the fall plan.

Quote, Walgreens, Uber, and DoorDash are stepping up to answer the president's call to action by increasing access to COVID-19 treatments.

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