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4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Climate chaos, collapsing public health infrastructure, the scramble to archive 2020, and the rise of Qanon politicians.

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0:00.0	I've heard from other health departments who have actually purchased new fax machines since coronavirus started to keep up with the volume of reports they're getting.
0:08.9	Yes, our public health system in the year 2020 hinges on the fax machine.
0:15.5	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield.
0:20.6	Human beings in the midst of radical change aren't so hot at noticing how severe it is.
0:26.2	Someone can tell you, we didn't used to have 15 days above 100 degrees every year,
0:32.5	but to you, whatever you find, feels normal.
0:36.2	Also,
0:36.9	Where we go one, we go all.
0:39.0	QAnon was once just a cultish internet conspiracy.
0:42.3	But with the help from Donald Trump, this November,
0:45.0	we will see real-life Q&N-associated candidates on the ballot.
0:50.2	I stand with President Trump.
0:51.9	I stand with Q and the team.
0:53.4	Together, we can save our republic.
0:56.6	It's all coming up after this.
1:00.5	I'm WNYC in New York.
1:02.8	This is on the media.
1:04.4	Brooke Gladstone is out this week.
1:06.5	I'm Bob Garfield.
1:08.1	You may have missed this amid all the headlines recently, but, you know, Siberia is on fire.
1:14.6	What's been going on in Siberia and the northern Siberia towards the Arctic Circle has been crazy.
1:19.6	It's been so unusually warm.
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