From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, Armstrong and Getty Show.

Some scientists have advised that wearing an N95 mask properly and securely on an individual level can help prevent transmission.

Recent COVID counts are far less detailed than they were at the beginning of the pandemic, but the Centers for Disease Control says a one week period in the middle of last month.

So nearly 19% increase in COVID hospitalizations. Scientists say they're also watching a handful of new variants that may be better at evading immunity.

New COVID booster shots are expected to be available this month.

Yeah, the you're listening to a rerun, of course. This is this is the summer of 2020 that you're listening to.

And I wonder who's going to win the election between Trump and Biden and Wow, we can't this can't still be what we're talking about.

Get it. Have they brought back mask mandates anywhere where your kid goes to school, anything anywhere in the country. I know some places have.

I'm really not looking forward to that if that happens in my local school because dang it.

I didn't think it was possible that we would go there since there's data now.

You know, a lot of us suspected this back during the mask mandates before, but now there's data to show it doesn't help, especially with kids for a variety of reasons.

Sure. Yeah, it's utterly useless on a population level as an individual if you're compromised where the right mask carefully might help you.

It does have an effect in schools. The effect is it makes kids miserable.

They can't it's harder to learn how to speak and read and hear your teacher and all that sort of stuff. So it doesn't have an effect all negative about education. It doesn't have any effect positive about health.

That anybody just had a pop elliptic thought, will you allow an apocalyptic thought, Mr. Chairman, me of all people. I'm captain.

I think I'm speaking all day long. We were talking last hour about how this this monkey, the human monkey may have gotten so smart and invented things that will ruin its existence on earth.

And maybe it's the apple from the tree and knowledge or whatever you want. Maybe it turns out to be nuclear war or we just die of being amused to death.

Nobody has babies. You know, who knows what it's going to do, but it just occurred to me. COVID is not done.

It's not done evolving. It's not done going around the world. Maybe the first like big COVID show.

Which we all went through was not the biggest COVID show.

Well, that's what happened with the 1918 flu as I remember talking about three years ago because I read about it.

It came, I think it was in the spring back then. It came and did some damage and left and people thought, Oh, God, that was awful.

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