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🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/69915341 We discuss a new framing in media that everyone has already had covid, including the Wall Street Journal's "Think You've Never Had Covid-19? Think Again" and The Atlantic's "America Is Running Out of ‘COVID Virgins.’" Then we look at what we've learned in recent days about Biden's covid diagnosis and how covid response coordinator Ashish Jha worked to sell it as "a success story." Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Runtime 1:04:54, 01 August 2022 🧬

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0:00.0	To hear the full episode, become a patron at petriam.com slash netpanel pod.
0:06.3	We'll come back to the Biden stuff in a minute.
0:09.4	But what he's talking about is something that we wanted to make sure that we touched on for a little bit, which is a recent spate of articles that I just find fascinating.
0:18.0	They all popped up within a couple days of each other. It's, I think,
0:23.0	starting like July 21st, and the most recent one is like the 25th or the 27th of July. And I'm just
0:29.3	going to read the following headlines. They give away a lot of what the articles contain and what
0:34.2	we'll be talking about for at least the first part of this show. But here's a headline from the Wall Street Journal.
0:40.5	Quote, think you've never had COVID-19.
0:43.5	Think again.
0:45.8	The Atlantic.
0:47.0	This one is bad.
0:49.1	Quote, America is running out of COVID virgins.
0:53.8	And the Washington Post with the lovely framing, quote,
0:59.0	Meet the COVID Super Dodgers.
1:01.6	With the subhead, the no COVID club gets more exclusive every day.
1:06.0	And some members have no idea how they're still here.
1:10.3	Yeah.
1:10.9	I mean, one of the things that we've been talking about, right,
1:14.4	is how one of the primary political projects that's been ongoing around COVID since February
1:19.7	is normalizing these very high levels of infection and getting people used to the idea that
1:26.4	it's just totally fine to have COVID everywhere,
1:29.6	which is, you know, where we're at right now.
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