Vaccine apartheid, tankies redux, and the TTSG manifesto
Publisher |
Time To Say Goodbye
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
News
Politics
Publication Date |
Nov 24, 2020
Episode Duration |
01:26:14

Happy birthday, Jay’s sister!

Tammy checks in from a motel in Kennewick, Jay remembers his lost novel, and we talk turkey. 

8:30 – On the global vaccine race. The “good” science (from Sarah Zhang), the “bad” vaccine apartheid (syndicate.org/commentary/pfizer-vaccine-doses-claimed-by-rich-countries-weakens-covax-by-jayati-ghosh-2020-11">Jayati Ghosh, economist at JNU), Macbook vs. Chromebook, and the politics of glorifying private drug companies (vaccine.html">as in the NYT).

Also, check out this cool new vaccine data center from Duke Global Health Innovation Center: https://launchandscalefaster.org/COVID-19

41:00 – A listener question from Kurt: Are tankies real or just an online phenomenon?

49:55 – Our first audio listener question! Listener Cody Wilson asks about vote-election-politics.html">Jay’s recent NYTvote-election-politics.html"> op-ed / TTSGvote-election-politics.html"> manifesto on the value of disaggregating “POC” communities, and offers an explanation for why the Rio Grande Valley went crazy for Trump in 2020 (cf. The Texas Tribune). 

Thanks for hanging with us. Have a safe, socially-distanced Thanksgiving, and send us your questions and comments! @TTSGPod / timetosaygoodbyepod@gmail.com

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