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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

The Economy Still Has the Virus

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Republicans have begun embracing masks. It’s a welcome change -- but it’s also an economic indicator.  Guest: Slate’s Jordan Weissmann.  Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.1

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0:18.8

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0:27.2

Remember when we were still debating about whether wearing a mask was a good thing or not?

0:32.2

It was not that long ago.

0:34.3

Back at the end of February, the head of the CDC, Robert Redfield, he got in front of

0:38.6

Congress and he sounded so confident when a member asked whether healthy people should

0:44.6

be covering their faces.

0:46.5

He gave a flat out no.

0:48.0

As I do see people feeling a need to go by mask.

0:54.8

You can hear that he sounds a little annoyed to answer this question.

0:59.0

And it really does displease me to find people going out.

1:04.0

There's no role for these masks in the community.

1:06.8

These masks need to be brought.

1:08.4

When Redfield came back to Washington to testify some more over the past few weeks, he's

1:13.5

been wearing a mask.

1:15.7

So have all the politicians sitting across from him.

1:18.7

One was even wearing a Plexiglass face shield.

1:25.4

And I should say this is a good thing.

1:28.0

Learning about a novel virus means constantly reassessing what you know and what you don't.

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