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🗓️ 23 September 2024
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Journalist Julia Doubleday joins Bad Faith to interrogate whether inconsistencies exist between the left’s commitment to universal healthcare and our willingness to criticize Democrats on a range of public safety failures, and the indifference from some on the left to the Biden administration’s declaration that Covid is "over" — even as multiple refinfections present the threat of long Covid and massive public health problems. Have legitimate concerns about CDC misinformation and overly broad vaccine mandates made it difficult to discuss Covid health risks without being pegged as "authoritarian?"
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0:00.0 | Every infection is not necessarily going to cause you lasting damage, but it could it might and a great way to find out |
0:09.2 | Everything COVID can do is to get it 20 times in the next 10 years, which to be clear is Joe Biden's plan for you. |
0:15.8 | I want to talk about long COVID. And I think when I asked why should people care? |
0:20.3 | In front of mind for me was long COVID because I do think that a lot of people having had now, you know, |
0:25.6 | basically everybody having had experience first-hand with COVID, it can make you feel a lot more |
0:31.2 | confident that it's less of a big deal. I mean I remember you know at the |
0:36.1 | beginning I happened to have been recently unemployed because the Bernie campaign |
0:41.2 | was over when COVID started, right? |
0:43.4 | So I was able to, you know, and I don't live as anybody, I don't have kids, so like I could |
0:50.0 | completely isolate. |
0:51.8 | And it was a long time before after I started working frankly |
0:56.0 | working at being asked to come in and work at Rising one of my biggest concerns |
1:00.7 | was oh gosh well now I am I have to be mask listed on camera at a workplace |
1:05.1 | sitting next to someone who has been very vocal about his disinterest in ever wearing a mask and who got sick all the time. |
1:11.3 | It was out of work because you're sick all the time and it's just something I want to expose myself to but I was in a very privileged position, right? So I felt like there was a high return on me masking |
1:25.6 | because there was basically if I were diligent |
1:28.4 | in public, there's basically no other way I could get it. |
1:30.9 | Right. |
1:31.9 | I was only exposed because I had nobody living in my house with me who had to be |
1:35.4 | unmasked at the job. I was only exposed if I put myself in that position, right? If I didn't wear a mask in the elevator |
1:40.8 | before I went on on a run or I didn't leave my house very much that year except for it to go down on the elevator and go in a run. |
1:47.0 | Okay. But then life, everything opens back up, life is returning to usual, I'm going into an office place every day, unmasked |
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