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I don't know what to say

you've got to right

yeah it's okay

I don't know anything.

Hello and welcome to the

Hello and welcome to the Special Emergency Coronovirus Edition of Factually.

I'm Adam Conover, and look, we all have a lot of questions right now.

Am I going to get sick? Do I really need to stay inside and not see my friends?

How long is this going to last? Will Idris Elba be okay?

We have a lot of these questions and one of the big problems I've noticed during this pandemic

is how hard it's been to get reliable answers to these questions

that get everyone on the same page.

You know, last Saturday I found myself quarantined in my home, reading tweets and news articles about how important it was for all of us to stay inside

while the bar down the street from me was full of partiers people drinking swap and spit the usual I called my parents up and I said, hey, I'm staying inside and they were like, wait, are you supposed to do that?

No one said that yet where we live to us.

And that made me appreciate the degree to which not everyone is getting the same message right now.

And even for people like me, someone who's trying to learn as much as I can, it doesn't always

feel possible to get clear answers to the questions I have.

There's so much uncertainty lying in front of us and so few clear answers.

Well, when I'm in a situation like this, a situation where I need to know the answer to a question and I cannot

find it myself.

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