The Court of Public Vaccination w/ Prof. Melissa Murray

America Dissected

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Politics, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Your right to swing your first ends where my face starts. That principle captures the limits of our freedoms in this country. And the Supreme Court has long held the precedent that people could be required to be vaccinated to protect the public from disease. But a recent ruling against workplace vaccine mandates may upend that. We speak with Prof. Melissa Murray, NYU Law professor and host of “Strict Scrutiny,” a podcast about the supreme court, about that, the retirement of Justice Breyer, and more. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/americadissected.

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0:00.0	The number of COVID-19 deaths during the Omicron surge has now surpassed the total number
0:10.2	of deaths during the Delta surge.
0:12.8	Moderna and Pfizer both announced trials for Omicron-specific vaccines.
0:16.5	A new study finds that child tax credits increased the brain activity in infants of low-income
0:20.6	mothers.
0:21.7	This is America Dissective.
0:22.7	I'm your host, Dr. Abdul-Elsan.
0:29.7	The last two years of COVID-19 have been a lot of things.
0:33.7	They've been taxing.
0:34.7	They've been tragic.
0:36.0	But one thing that I think a lot of us have taken out of it, or at least something I
0:39.3	have, is so much appreciation for what it means to live among people I might never know
0:43.8	or even speak to.
0:45.8	Especially now that this pandemic has detached so many of us from the things that we used
0:49.1	to take for granted.
0:50.9	Think about walking around your city or your town.
0:53.3	Think about all the collective experiences, your time at school.
0:56.4	Go into a sporting event or a concert.
0:58.5	What makes those experiences so incredible?
1:01.0	It's the other people there, of course.
1:03.6	So let's just call this experience collective effervescence.
1:06.8	The idea that experiencing a thought or action together fundamentally changes the experience
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