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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Who Is Still Listening to the CDC?

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.65.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released their long-anticipated masking guidelines for the fully vaccinated and it turns out that your privileges are… functionally indistinct from those afforded the unvaccinated. If anyone is still listening to this agency, it isn’t the people public health officials need to reach. Also, Human Rights Watch’s embarrassingly unconvincing allegations against Israel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.

0:27.0

Today is Wednesday, April 28th, 2021. I am John Poghord, the editor of Commentary

0:32.9

with me as always, executive editor, A. Greenwald Hyab, senior writer, Christine Rosen,

0:39.4

Hygristine, and associate editor, Noah Rothman, Hynoah. It is my time to tell you, as I

0:48.1

rarely do, that you need to go to Commentarymagazine.com and subscribe to Commentary where you

0:54.6

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some other people and help support the podcast by subscribing because you listen to it, you're

1:12.8

enjoying it, you're part of our audience, we're very happy, but you know what, we're

1:19.5

not PBS, but you know, we do depend on support from listeners like you. So commentarymagazine.com

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and rate us on iTunes. I'm sorry, that's right. Please leave a glowing five star review

1:38.6

as Rich Lowry says. And if you don't like what you hear, forget I said anything, but let's

1:43.6

face it. If you didn't like what you were hearing, you probably wouldn't be listening

1:47.2

right now unless you are a new listener in which case welcome and you're going to like

1:51.6

what you hear. And if you don't like what you hear, don't leave a review. Biden's going

1:57.5

to have a big speech tonight introducing his let's turn the government into a giant milk

2:06.0

factory, but we'll talk about that tomorrow. Let's talk about the big news, which is the

2:14.6

CDC as Noah might say telling people to do what they've already been doing for the last

2:19.5

eight months or 10 months, which is that they can go outside without a mask if they're

2:25.7

fully vaccinated. But if you're fully vaccinated and you go into crowds, you should wear a

2:32.0

mask. Guess why? Guess why? As CDC director, Michelle Lensky, who is becoming in some respects

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