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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Monday, October 24th, 2022.

I'm John Puthore. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always.

An ailing executive editor, Aig Greenwald. Hi, Abe.

Hi, John. We're going to get to why he is ailing in a minute.

Media commentary columnist and American Enterprise Institute fellow Christine Rosenhykrstein.

Hi, John. And associate editor and author of the Rise of the New Puritans. No,

or Rothman, Hi, Noah. Hi, John. Abe. So at long last two and a half years into the pandemic

that is either over and not over about to have a surge or not a surge, you have finally contracted

COVID. I can't believe it. I had prided myself on not getting it. Now you can hear. I've not only

tested positive, but I have symptoms. Like Rochelle Wollensky. Yes. Rochelle Wollensky, CDC director,

unlike you, Rochelle Wollensky got the fifth shot, got the Bivalent Booster, and nonetheless contracted

COVID a month after getting the Bivalent Booster. Yes. So interesting detail. In the Washington

post tour door, a result of Biden's first year and a half and the troubles that he fell into,

which I think was published, it was available on Friday. I don't know when it was in the paper,

but it's like a 5,000 word piece in which the clearly the administration, the White House

participated. There are on the record quotes from Bruce Reed and Tom Donnellan who were like leading

White House aides in the, and so they were trying to shape and sculpt the piece.

One very interesting detail was that inside the White House, there was alarm that the claims

that the vaccine was going to prevent transmission were unfounded. That what the vaccine could do

was spare you, mitigate the symptoms and help you, but that it was not in the conventional sense

a way of interrupting the transmission of COVID. No kidding. I didn't know that people in the

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