Well, look, let me just tell you what I think here.

I think that Berks and Fauci have gone well past their, they've expired.

Their time of usefulness has expired.

But other places were long before us, and they're now, it's a life, it's got a life.

And we're putting out that life because that's a bad life that we're talking about.

Hey, this summer, and you're being inundated with all this American bicentennial 4th of July, Bruhaha,

don't forget what you're celebrating.

And that's the fact that a bunch of slave-boning

aristocratic white males didn't want to pay their taxes yeah hey everybody welcome to the

muckrake podcast i'm your co-host jade sexton i'm here as always with nick how to

begin this there's so much happening today,

you know, that unfortunately is one of the side effects of living in the Trumpian era of American

politics. It's just flooding the zone, so much to keep track of. But the first things,

first we have to talk, Nick, about the fact that coronavirus is spiking all around the country.

In more places than it's not. It's disrupting things all over again. It's actually worse than it was in the very beginning.

We're being told by experts that perhaps we're looking at an escalation

that is going to be even worse than what we've seen so far in terms of not just infections,

but tragedies. It's a really hard thing to stay on top of, yeah. You know, it's interesting. It's a

culmination of a lot of things, too. We've seen some reports that show that there didn't seem to be a connection between spiking and the protests. But I just feel like rationally, it's hard to swaddle that because there's so many people were out. Now, I would say, and I kept my close eye on it, there were a lot of masks, and it was outside. So in theory, there should have been some mitigating circumstances there,

but it also coincides with the premature opening of businesses in a lot of these states as well,

which seems to be an easier way to track whether that spike is connected to that.

So a perfect storm.

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