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Inching Towards Normalcy

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We're about 9 weeks into the Great American Shut Down and maybe, just maybe we're starting to see a light at the end of this tunnel? To help us parse this, call on an actual scientist, our good friend from Stanford Medicine, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya who helped write the Santa Clara Study and the just released MLB study. We discuss where we are now, where we might be going, the strategies different states are employing, and yes, at bit of the politics around all of this. And will we see the return of college and pro sports any time soon? You'll have to tune in for the answer to that one. Also, a Ricochet first time poster gets the highly-coveted, much sought after Lileks Post of The Week badge, and we pay tribute to the great Reverend Richard Penniman. He was built for speed and good golly, we'll miss him.

Music from this week's podcast: Long Tall Sally by Little Richard

Hosts:
James LileksPeter RobinsonRob Long
Guest:
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

Discussion (101)

  • Hammer, The@RyanM

    I very much enjoyed Peter's interview with Jay on Uncommon Knowledge. But I did not agree with many of the conclusions that the Dr. came to with respect to where this data points us. I very much felt that he was playing it safe, knowing that anything he says will be tweeted and written about (last time, it was "Jay Bhattacharya owes us all an apology") unfairly, and will probably also reflect on Stanford University.

    (I expressed most of my own thoughts in a post a bit further down ... probably now on page 2 ... so I won't repeat it all, here)

    I'll be curious to know if his positions have changed any, now that he's had a week to sleep on it. Either way, I do appreciate his input, even if we don't completely agree in the end.

  • Mark Camp@MarkCamp
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    Hammer, The (View Comment):

    I very much enjoyed Peter’s interview with Jay on Uncommon Knowledge. But I did not agree with many of the conclusions that the Dr. came to with respect to where this data points us. I very much felt that he was playing it safe, knowing that anything he says will be tweeted and written about (last time, it was “Jay Bhattacharya owes us all an apology”) unfairly, and will probably also reflect on Stanford University.

    If there were a transcript, then we could have a Conversation about your thoughts, which you can't express because there is only audio.

    That's why I wish there were a transcript of this.

    If this obsession of Ricochet management with audio files were taken to an extreme, the entire Ricochet project--intelligent Conservation--would vanish entirely.

    I'm glad they still tolerate Conversations between Conservatives who are able to read and write, even as they use our subscription funds to enable these podcasts or whatever the hell they are called.

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