Returning to school amid pandemic
There's a big push to get students back in school in the middle of the pandemic. Similarly, I've noticed the official line on Covid and its Omicron variant now is that it's becoming "endemic," that we have to get used to it and that we need to get back to normal -- all of this coming from the same official sources who have consistently lied to us on this subject for two years. They also tend to dismiss the fate of Americans with "comorbidities" who might suffer severe consequences, as if the many tens of millions of Americans whose every vital organ isn't in tip-top shape is expendable. Many students, however, appear to be exercising an appropriate degree of skepticism: https://truthout.org/articles/students-are-walking-out-of-school-rather-than-returning-to-an-unsafe-normal/ Additionally, everyone in major media appears to be ignoring the very large-percentage likelihood that Covid sufferers, even those with initially mild cases, will suffer Long Covid, which at this stage appears to be a lifelong, disabling affliction whose symptoms in many cases resemble Alzheimer's paired with Black Lung. Some analyses I've read say Long Covid cases globally could easily mount into the hundreds of millions and gravely impair nations' functional capacity. My question in the light of these developments is whether you're willing to reconsider your stance that children should return to school? Yes, there are major consequences for keeping children out of classrooms. But the consequences for a return may be (and I think are) are good deal worse. Children are not the most likely to suffer the worst health consequences of Covid, but they are major vectors spreading the disease -- both to their teachers and to their families when they return home. And schools appear to be doing nothing to provide the ventilation needed to minimize the danger, possibly turning crowded classrooms into hotbeds of contagion. So is it time to rethink the return-to-school-and-normal narrative that our thoroughly discredited elites now seem so eager to thrust upon us?
Americas health
Saagar your message on improving personal health is so incredibly important so thank you for that. My question for you both is have you seen any movements within the government that seek to address the underlying health issues of our country? Such as food deserts, subsidies for unhealthy (and environmentally damaging ) monocrop agriculture, school lunches, I could go on forever. I’m in biotech sales in a lot of rural and underserved areas for a company often mentioned on the show but not by name (moral dilemma on some days but it pays the bills). I have become so black pilled by the health care system that’s controlled by pill pushing pharma companies so even if Medicare for all comes to fruition the care people would get is in most cases rotten and it seems that addressing the overall health of the country could fix a lot of problems.
Blind Spot - Unions
Every single time you talk about unions you frame it as “unions:good versus corporations not giving in to unions:bad” and I just wonder why? Your whole brand to me is fair, attempting accuracy and trying to explain reality to your audience. I’m an enthusiastic subscriber and I just don’t get why unions and their employers don’t get the same treatment. For example, you have never gotten the corporations point of view. Like the miners, for example, you portray their cause as sympathetic and clearly in the right — and I’m curious why there isn’t even a terse explanation as to why the ownership hasn’t “given in”? Is it possible it’s uneconomical? Or is there some sort gamesmanship? I don’t know and since no one covers the company’s side of things we have to speculate or just assume they are evil and greedy. I’d love to hear why a company — especially when you go so deep on the pro union side — is willing to have zero revenues for over half a year? Maybe the explanation is simple? Maybe it’s complex? But you two are great at complex so I’d love to hear at least the talking points from their perspective so we get a clearer picture of the dispute instead of it being one sided. You two are a good partnership, and balance each other out a lot — except when it comes to unions where you seem to have a blind spot that unions are always right. How come?