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Welcome back to The Breakdown. It is Saturday, April 4th, and as every Saturday,

this is an extended episode that has all of the rest of the week's episode mashed into one for

your long walking around the house from room to room, because that's as far as you can go,

or your death-dying errands out to get

additional supplies, whatever it is. This is all the episodes in one. But what I like to do is

recap a little bit about what the theme of the week was or what the feel of the week was.

And I think that this week was interesting because if you go back two weeks

and listen to this episode last week, I was really nervous about the degree of politicization

around the response to coronavirus, particularly this idea that the health outcomes and the

economic outcomes existed as

two competing countervailing polls rather than as something that were inextricably linked

together. That changed this week. We had a full admission from the White House on down that

this was a thing that couldn't just be turned on or

off and we couldn't just restart the economy because we felt like it, right? And so because of that,

I think that there's now an opportunity to talk about what comes next in a way that didn't

before, right? Last week, people were discussing and debating is the cure worse than the disease, but it

was highly politicized.

This week, we have a chance in going forward next week to actually discuss what it looks

like to win this war.

And I think that that's a really important point that we're not really discussing.

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