Wise to the Lies?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On the Gist, pronouncing names. In the interview, Mike is joined by Ed Yong of the Atlantic. As a science writer, not only did he warn of an epidemic in 2018, but he has been covering the coronavirus in a clear and vital way. In his latest piece, "Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die," Yong articulates how this tragedy could have been prevented, and explains why America isn't defeating the virus any time soon; it has defeated America. In the spiel, do Trump's lies still work? Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ah, the sound of spring cleaning.
0:03.6	Steam clean your way to brighter bathrooms and sparkling kitchens with the car-chasteen cleaner.
0:09.6	You'll be done before you know it, with more time to pitch your feet up.
0:14.0	Find your car-chasteen cleaner at carchard.co.uk or a car-chare retailer.
0:20.0	The following program may contain explicit language.
0:24.0	It's Monday, August 10th, 2020 from slated to the Jistine, Mike Pesca.
0:32.0	With the US at over 5 million coronavirus confirmations and over 160,000 deaths,
0:38.0	there's not much we're doing right or did right.
0:41.0	You can procure the PPE, you can have tests, terrible, uncontact tracing.
0:48.0	You know how to tell that we utterly failed uncontact tracing?
0:52.0	Contact, the people are still calling it contract tracing.
0:56.0	Contract, contact tracing.
0:59.0	Contract tracing is what we need to.
1:01.0	Contract, contact tracing.
1:02.0	Along with contract tracing.
1:04.0	The contract tracing program.
1:06.0	That was CNN, NPR, and Bloomberg.
1:09.0	Not Bloomberg, the network, Bloomberg the former mayor.
1:12.0	He tried, he really tried in announcing an initiative back in April with New York governor Andrew Cuomo.
1:18.0	I mean, he's Bloomberg, he thinks in contracts.
1:20.0	We get it.
1:21.0	As for the rest of us, contract tracing and contact tracing are of course easily transposed.
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