The Perks Of Being A Walmarter
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 16 July 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
All 5,300 plus Walmarts and Sam’s Clubs nationwide will begin requiring shoppers to wear masks next week. On the state level, half of the governors in the US have now instituted at least some kind of mask requirement in public settings.
New safety recommendations from the National Academies of Science, Engineering,and Medicine say schools should prioritize younger children and children with special needs where it is safe and possible. But the committee offered no guidance on what level of infection makes in-person learning unsafe.
And in headlines: verified Tweeters get hacked, RBG out of the hospital, and an update on Goya’s Beangate.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, July 16th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:08.4 | And I'm Gideon Resneck and this is what a day feeling refreshed and rejuvenated after |
| 0:12.6 | three hours of not being able to post tweets. |
| 0:15.0 | Yeah, and feeling immediately saddened by all of the mean tweets about the blue checks. |
| 0:19.3 | I can't help it that I worked at a place one time that got me verified. |
| 0:22.7 | I'm a person of the people. |
| 0:24.5 | Yeah, I think we should all just, you know, be kind to each other, |
| 0:27.7 | no matter what color checks are next. |
| 0:38.0 | On today's show, the latest on how children will or won't return to school in the fall, |
| 0:41.4 | then some headlines. |
| 0:42.7 | But first, the latest new coronavirus cases are rising in almost every state. |
| 0:47.2 | Summary openings are turning into reclosings, |
| 0:49.6 | testing backlogs and hospital capacity issues continue in certain areas. |
| 0:53.3 | And yet, and yet we still lack a coherent national strategy to deal with the pandemic. |
| 0:59.4 | As has been the case, cities, states, businesses and individuals have had to take up the response |
| 1:04.3 | themselves case in point masks. The latest and perhaps the biggest business to step into the |
| 1:09.8 | Serena is Walmart. So let's get into what they're saying and how this is actually going to work. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, for sure. So beginning Monday at all, 5300 plus Walmart and Sam's clubs, which they also own, |
| 1:19.9 | every shopper is going to be required to wear a mask. And the company claimed yesterday that |
| 1:23.6 | already 3,500 or so locations are in places where there were these government mask mandates that |
| 1:28.4 | were locally enforced. With this announcement, Walmart is joining other national retailers like |
| 1:32.5 | Starbucks, Apple and Costco in imposing masks in their stores and also Kroger is instituting a |
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