It's very, very easy to say, okay, I will cut this person out of my life to save myself a little bit of grief.

But usually if we're talking about people who are maybe like very bottomed into these conspiracies who are like pretty deep in it, right?

The best thing you can do is to let them know that you're going to be there no matter what.

And that sort of gives them a little bit of space and allows them to backtrack gracefully if they choose to do that.

This is Sarah and Beth, you're listening to Pantsy Politics, the home of Graceville Political Conversations.

Hello, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us for another episode of Pantsy Politics. Today we're going to talk about the State of the Economy in light of the April Jobs Report and just our take on what's going on and what our expectations should be right now about the economy.

Then we'll share our conversation with Jane Litvenenko, BuzzFeed's senior reporter on disinformation. I'm a big fan of her Twitter feed, especially in all of her work.

She talks to us about misinformation and her advice for navigating digital media. I love this conversation. I'm excited for you to hear it.

And outside of politics, we're discussing what we perceived this year as a real shift, a positive one, and recognizing the complexity around Mother's Day.

So stick around. You won't want to miss that discussion.

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As we get into this conversation about the economy, it is necessarily a conversation about COVID-19. And we want to just take a second to acknowledge that there were very big reactions to Friday's episode that covered a wide spectrum of feeling.

We heard from so many people that it was our best episode ever. We heard from quite a few people who did not enjoy it and challenged where we were coming from.

And we got a lot of in between that was very thoughtful and interesting. And we've spent a lot of time thinking about those comments.

We covered some of our reactions to them briefly on Patreon last night. But Sarah, we thought we'd just take just a second here and react to your reactions.

Yes, it's an incredibly complex topic. And I think the first thing I'd say is like we definitely did not cover everything we want to cover.

So many people pointed out that there's this real complexity when it comes to kids in COVID and them not being vaccinated. We have two, not one but two episodes coming up where we're going to talk about that.

I'm talked to some experts surrounding particularly kids and vaccines. And we heard a lot of pushback when we were talking about schools reopening and mistakes made there.

And I think what I just want to make sure and say is one, I thought the reaction was overwhelmingly positive. And I don't mean just positive and you like the episode.

But just so thoughtful. People really engaging in some self examination and sort of awareness of where they saw themselves in the episode where they didn't see themselves in the episode.

Why I just I was so incredibly impressed. But there was a lot of, you know, if you're criticizing something about mask, that means you think there should be no mask or you think that the states that have pulled back the mask mandate have done everything correctly.

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