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🗓️ 1 May 2020
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0:00.0 | Music |
0:24.0 | Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Friday May 1st 2020, which means that |
0:29.7 | the cruelest month is finally over and let it have been the cruelest month, a month in which |
0:38.7 | almost 60,000 Americans or about 60,000 Americans died from COVID-19. I'm John Potorzi, |
0:47.4 | editor of commentary magazine with me as always, senior editor A Greenwald. Hi, Abe. |
0:53.0 | Hi, John. Associate editor in O'Rossman, high Noah. Hi, John. And senior writer, |
0:58.4 | Christine Rosen, high Christine. Hi, John. So once again, we're in a weird situation in which the |
1:08.8 | news, if you want to take it as such on the worst hotspot in America, which is New York City, where |
1:18.2 | I'm talking to you from, is guardedly better. It keeps getting better, though, you know, saying that |
1:27.0 | saying that 205 people died yesterday from COVID doesn't sound great and it isn't great, but it's |
1:34.8 | better than 700, you know, which was the case so we could go. Hospitalizations are down, |
1:40.6 | intubations are down, all of that stuff is down. And so that does mean that we did apparently hit |
1:46.4 | the peak and are now, you know, heading down and now interestingly enough, apparently the per capita |
1:57.1 | death rate in New Jersey is now, where Noah is, is now exceeded the per capita death rate in |
2:06.0 | New York state. So that suggests that the measures that have been taken have been successful. |
2:19.0 | And people should be, you know, I mean, it's better to have gone through this with some |
2:28.0 | reason to think that the difficulties that we have all been enduring has been for good reason. |
2:39.8 | Noah, there was an interesting, your governor, Governor Murphy of New Jersey announced that he |
2:45.6 | was reopening parks and what else parks in a couple of other things? All forces. All forces, |
2:54.4 | right? And that, but he then said sounding like a parent of unruly kids in the back seat, |
3:03.0 | if you misbehaved, don't think I won't close him back up again. Yeah, and so I find it to turn |
3:09.8 | this car around, Mr. Precisely. And that's, I mean, there's a weird thing that's occurring with me |
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