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from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington broadcast center

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty

Armstrong and Getty show

We have a major epidemic of RSV, maybe peaking right now, we're going to enter into a major

epidemic of flu and we haven't been taking the actions that we would normally be taking to try to mitigate these kinds of pandemics

because I think a lot of public health officials and I think a lot of school districts are a little bit gun shy right now,

given the backlash to what we did during the pandemic.

That's interesting, so that's Scott Gottlieb, he was one of our favorite go-to doctor type guys.

During the whole pandemic thing, but he seems to think we need to be doing what?

Shut down, what is he wanting to do? He thinks people are hesitant to do, let's hear more from him.

In the next clip.

Closing a school for one incubation cycle for two or three days when you had a major outbreak of flu or RSV in the past was not that uncommon.

If you had 40% or 50%.

What? Okay, plain it. I'm disagreeing.

There's an Indiana national news.

We know hand hygiene for example is very effective at stopping flu transmission.

Do you hear any school district talking about hand hygiene right now?

We know wearing a mask if you have the flu or RSV when you go out is effective at preventing forward transmission.

Nobody wants to say that.

So I think that there's a lot of reluctance now.

In part because of the failure of public health messages, you think during the pandemic and things we got wrong and the backlash to it.

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