The Chinese Dragon’s Missing Scale

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🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The rehabilitation of the “lab leak” theory of COVID-19’s origins in the press is now accompanied by the Biden administration calling for an investigation. But what will his administration do with that information if the worst is proven correct? Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily.
0:26.3	We are on the cusp of Memorial Day weekend.
0:33.4	Monday for Memorial Day. So I hope everybody has wonderful plans here in the
0:37.9	Northeast. It's apparently going to be cold and rainy. So that's really great.
0:42.7	I'm very excited about that even though, you know, according to Noah Rothman's own
0:47.5	governor, you know, Memorial Day was the magical time when suddenly every
0:53.9	fact pattern that we've seen in relation to COVID over the last six
0:57.1	months, suddenly immediately came true and the
0:59.7	state can open from Memorial Day so everyone can get rained on. So his
1:06.0	science doesn't follow the weather, John. The science is the science. That's
1:09.2	absolutely true. That of course being associated with
1:11.7	a normal Rothman high Noah. Hi John. Also with us,
1:15.6	senior writer Christine Rosen, hi Christine. Hi John.
1:18.8	An executive editor Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe.
1:21.6	Hi John. Abe, you know, I got to tell our listeners that
1:25.8	the mail continues to pour in, which is interesting about our
1:33.3	asking you guys whether we should remain a daily podcast or not.
1:37.2	I think we got another 150 to 200 emails yesterday.
1:42.9	And there are two things the overwhelming. So this brings the total to
1:46.8	I don't know five or six hundred anyway, there are two
1:49.9	two important things to say. One is that the overwhelming majority of you
1:54.9	wants us to continue daily and so we're going to continue daily.
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