UBI Feel It Coming
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🗓️ 5 March 2021
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Summary
Republican governors in West Virginia and Alabama have continued to advise wearing masks, bucking the trend of governors in Mississippi and Texas who want to rush things back to normal. California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that his state will start sending 40 percent of doses to its most vulnerable neighborhoods.
New data out this week from a Basic Income experiment in Stockton, California show that giving people monthly government stipends increase their quality of life and ability to get a full time job.
And in headlines: Italy blocked a quarter million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from being exported to Australia, a series of major earthquakes and tsunami warnings near New Zealand, and great apes get vaccinated in San Diego.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, March 5th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm Gideon Resneck and this is what a day we are reporting that liberals have canceled |
| 0:12.8 | the horny version of Space Jam's Lola Bunny. |
| 0:15.2 | Yeah, first they came for racist doctor's cheese books and now I guess because somebody |
| 0:19.6 | decided that they didn't want Lola Bunny to have titties, that's all in us too. So fun. |
| 0:24.0 | What's next? Flubber? |
| 0:34.8 | On today's show, new data on universal basic income, then some headlines. |
| 0:38.2 | But first the latest. |
| 0:40.0 | Now I am very hopeful that we can get rid of these crazy masks because you know we all know |
| 0:44.4 | we don't want to wear the mask. I mean that's just all there's to it. |
| 0:47.2 | And as we continue to vaccinate more and more and more, we'll get rid of the mask. |
| 0:51.5 | But I don't know really what the big rush to get rid of the mask is because these masks have |
| 0:58.0 | saved a lot of lives. I mean, facts. So that was Republican. Yes, Republican governor Jim |
| 1:04.2 | Justice of West Virginia on CNN yesterday making a pretty obvious point that some other Republican |
| 1:08.8 | governors just haven't seemed to get masks are still the easiest and best tool we have against COVID |
| 1:13.9 | even as vaccinations continue across the country. Earlier this week, we talked about the Biden |
| 1:18.3 | administration's new ambitious goal of having enough vaccines for all adults by the end of May. |
| 1:22.8 | But ultimately, as it has been for the whole pandemic, most of what affects our day-to-day lives |
| 1:27.2 | comes from the leaders of our states. So let's talk a little bit about what states are and aren't |
| 1:31.5 | doing right now. Yeah, so last time we talked about this, it was the decision by Texas and Mississippi |
| 1:36.7 | to basically open up in defiance of what public health officials have been advising both of those |
| 1:41.6 | states are run by Republican governors. But yesterday, we did have a couple other Republican |
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