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#197 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Social Distancing, Is It Working?

If social distancing actually works as intended, if eiher we flatten the curve, such that the health care system doesn't break, the level of contagion and bidity and mortality is more flue like than smallpox. And then there's just this very strange element to this confirmation bias, which is the cities, the blue counties were the first and hardest hit by this riht. So trumpestan, the virus is only now arriving, right? It's just, this was perfectly tailored for misinformation and conspiracy theory and confirmation bias,. Just a complete failure of public health, split along political lines. Something like ninety seven per cent of americans are actually under lockdown...

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