America the Distractable

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🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Will voters become as consumed with the issue of abortion rights in the same way the political class has, even to the detriment of more urgent issues like inflation and crime? We discuss and debate. Also, the perpetual Covid mitigation regime in Democrat-dominated locales, the New York Times’ failed hit on Elon Musk, and why we know what we shouldn’t know about Russia’s war on Ukraine.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcasts.
0:27.0	Today is Thursday, May 5, 2022. I am John Baudford, the editor of commentary. I have
0:34.0	having a computer problem, so if this sounds weird and different, it's because I am doing
0:39.4	this from my iPhone and I apologize, but still on their computers and on their classy,
0:46.6	sure MV7 mics, we have executive editor, A. Greenwald Hyay.
0:52.0	Hi John.
0:53.0	Senior writer, Christine Rosenhykristine.
0:55.0	Hi John.
0:56.0	Hi.
0:57.0	Hi.
0:58.0	Hi John.
0:59.0	Hi, because I am so rattled by my computer problems, we have done even less preparation
1:08.4	than usual for this podcast. I guess the big new detail that is emerging today in America
1:20.7	is that we, according to NBC News and a couple of other things, we have hit the million
1:26.8	death mark in the pandemic now, you know, two years and two months into the pandemic.
1:37.4	And a couple of things I want to note because they go against a lot of the things that we
1:43.7	have been saying and it's worthy of note. In this, the new, the BA2, the last month to
1:57.6	six weeks, hospitalizations in the United States are now in fact up after several months of
2:04.4	hospitalizations declining, although the death toll continues to decline, although the
2:13.6	rate of the decline is slowing and there are reports of a concern about a new version of
2:22.6	Omicron, a new variant of Omicron that is more contagious and potentially more dangerous
2:28.8	though, since the report I heard on this last night on NPR just kept, was it was a reporter
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