substances you know a year of i think they did accomplish unity and hey you know we just want things to be different. le bron james publicly and many do teams talking about being black in america is still treated 2nd class do you endorse that well i mean i guess we have different point of view from everyone you know so i mean very similar opinions i think it could be a little bit more effort given you know from you know it lee or you know officials you know just like you can be different programming in schools i mean i definitely have strong opinions about this shit one day 'd but after some of the ins and outs of ron and some it's different. the white house senior adviser and trump's son in law jared cushion reactors in the n.b.a. strike by saying the players were lucky to be in the position they were in they

could take a night off without suffering financially warningly what do you say to that. can you repeat that question please are. you know jared corrosion a said that the players could afford to take a night or 2 off because they're in a financial position that americans aren't in. i think i think the point was that money is not everything you know i think the point is you want to avoid i collect voice obviously you know some things are not going to be perfect but i just think that that was the point of taking the night off not necessarily about the money because so many people in america is rich. or rich and you know everybody is that felons and everybody. john denies it give the magic took some heat in july for standing on the rest of the team during the national anthem you have defended isaac and said you probably

wouldn't have taken then me why not well the thing is this i always like to ask questions so you know if you know how it is how something happens on t.v. things will happen yes if so any time i see something i always want to ask questions so for me i probably wouldn't do it because everyone else did it but i feel like you're standing on the hill and that's that that's my approach but i get the message that i defy deference whiteness ok what about those who say players should stay out of political areas social justice basically saying just shut up and play it's not your area i don't agree with that because the root long and no one must have one mission one alan clinton would you put make it to bring you know let my young son and smile become knowledgeable and you would be

a smart ass want to be there but you're i think the message. be all you can be a leader you know you're asking for you know be multiple. what do you make of the players living in the bubble can you handle that well. i definitely could have handled living in the bubble you know it was. it's just so interesting it reminds me of old school new york city basketball when you got to play you and it's another another team coming on in multiple teams are in the vicinity of the venue i think it had to be asked me. out a lot of money and you think sports it is handling the pandemic. not i think. i mean i think they handled it pretty cool i mean we want to see sports and you look at the big athletes i don't think they can get affected by you know kobe so you want want to still have the opportunity to see sports and i think i want a really good job we can have that we're sports like not played on television.

would you have opted out of the season. i don't think i actually remember i wanted to retire early i was 22 years old i was a little stressed out i actually call from our time it was just like you know everybody so different now i want to retire for different reasons that really but i think it's just up to now i probably would not play it so i don't think i'll want to just miss. does the abbreviated n.b.a. season take away from whoever wins the championship i think. i think this championship is going to be one of the most difficult championship because. you don't even really have home court advantage if you lose the game it's not like you can go back home break so's you can potentially get people being swept in there

people are losing and there's no home court advantage it's really going to come down to ask because higher you know and well. what do you think in clippers they made him i mean road in los angeles cold faber's almost a witness i like to call a person you know i think the look was pretty organization. great players you know lou williams on that team. and they got a really good team there in los angeles in there and be a team you 'd know i think you know what bus system they played very well i mean you have a shot they have a legit shot. you know until you so many you've done a lot for you have been a remarkable 2nd magni have done so much for mental health awareness don't you feel led them to think that the public now has much more an understanding of mental illness than before and i think so you know back in may. if you were just to

say you know you have an issue you have a mental illness i think media with it one supporter as much as they support or understand coverage and i think people have a better understanding and able to deal with it better and you just want to continue to be a part of that movement. you said that in the past you weren't happy you were in a dark place and you can you explain what that was like. yeah you know just. i think wanting to be number one i think also stress uncertainty shifting that's what causes you know athletes sometimes. you know go to a certain thing so i believe that. you know just those things make it stronger with us strong. i'm really happy that i was talking about it. and it was good. the public by the way how are you doing i

don't great you know just enjoying the skull they will have a count like a long vacation but you know trying to get through i mean but other than asking people come together and know that it is a different time now but i think that's our home if anything. does it ever come back to haunt you metta there are periods in your life waiting to go into that dark place again. and i'm pretty happy. i mean i actually it's some of support out there and so many people that go on to different things that we've gone through in our neighbors and we just support each other commitments at the dock in congress you know obviously a long time ago you know and all the laws that those are those are doctors times and you know anything you don't personally it's pretty easy compared to you know what we've been through just being in america but other than that everybody came and so if you have issues you know it's not like you're back alone so you just get

through it and you know the most important thing is to enjoy your days that's really really important you know you got a lot of help belden yeah absolutely absolutely along the way a lot a lot of help and actually a lot of support because your family the most important you know and i think i think it starts with the family and then he goes down you know to if you need any extra help it you can always lean on camera and i think that's what. keep people going and keep keep people strong in his family struggling to raise a good future and that's what's most important we don't always have that well you know sometimes you ash the questions and you can find answers so what are you doing now will you in business what are you doing right now i'm just home. yeah going home and you know normally i would come down to check you out action studio you know it's on my own i mean i make and writing doing professionally i'll professionally well you know just making about number one to make sure the kids for

this college and i got kids in college and high school so i think that that's the biggest profession. and in part you know just doing an actress exports is going to you're staying a bass more i really enjoy sports really enjoy the game and i'm just really excited now i'm able to once again you know i work with people i love basketball so that's often i can do what i do basketball application experts exports. some come out come find some names you work with n.b.a. players well. i did i remember when i let him be i wanted to i was thinking about going to find hundreds when i was thinking about getting my own series 7 clouds all interested in that. and then at the sides of the digital marketing but i did at that management company we got a place an m.b.a. but it just i don't know if it doesn't interest me and some of the company but i don't really get involved because i'm finding it doesn't interest me i just like to

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back to politicking we now welcome dr abdul siad to our program physician being the ologist public health expert he's a progressive activists and he's author of the new book healing politics a doctor's journey into the heart of a political epidemic all right of the top doctor is it is this he level. asked me on november 4th look i think there's a lot of work that we're going to have to do to be able to heal 'd the moment that we're in you know the book i talk about this idea of an epidemic of insecurity. that has left us all anxious worried about the future driven by a systematic lack of basic resources and it won't and on november 3rd just because of the outcomes of want to election but it's going to be a function of everything that we can do from november 4th onward to try and rectify the lack of access to basic goods like health care and housing and i quality

infrastructure and jobs that pay a fair wage that too many people are living without right now particular in the context of this pandemic and so back to school time what do you say to parents who are asking is should i send my kid to school. you know the hard part is a is that it is an answer that really depends on a lot of things that are individual to those parents and i'll say this that in public health there is never one yes for no very rarely there's one yes or no but it's a question of how much risk is worth the circumstance now in some communities where there are still very active community spread the risk of sending your kid back to school is a lot higher in communities where there's not very much community spread obviously it's a lot lower you know is the school in the school district doing what it takes to prevent transmission in that school or they're requiring masks are they you know improving the quality of their a fax system or are they doing as much as they can outside and then how bored is it

for that kid to go to school and what are the risks if in fact they do get sick or someone in the family gets very sick you know some children are living in multigenerational households where they've got really parents or grandparents who really could have very very bottom if in fact they got sick other kids need really specialized education that they can only do in person and i think for every family they need to weigh the risks against the needs and make a decision for themselves but i would always say that being able to make sure that your kid is wearing a mask at all times that that school district has a real plan around what to do if there is a case how to prevent that 1st case from happening and of course paying attention to what the circumstances around school is and in the in the transmission and at around the community those are all really important things to do a doctor top white house officials are urging the nation's governors to persuade the heads of colleges to keep the students on campus even and in view of the band

or do you think that sounds weird. absurd look i i'm teaching this term at the university of michigan and you know i like to take my class fully online i really enjoy teaching and i wish i was able to do it in person but i also know that you know that for college students the ability to learn online via something like zone is a lot higher than for younger kids and every day that we keep colleges and universities open while there's active spread on those campuses in particular we are increasing the risk for every other person who lives in that community and you know that means then that you know kids who really do need to learn in classrooms like kids in kindergarten or pre-k. are not going to be able to do that and so you know colleges universities are not the most important institutions to keep open right now and it's worrying to me that the seems more in line with a political agenda driven by the white house than it does to be aligned with

science in the public health interest of the communities covered 19 has already claimed the lives of more than 183000 how much worse can it get. oh get a lot worse i hate to say it it could get a lot worse you know that there is no silver bullet to cover $911.00 a vaccine is not a silver bullet because of course there's a difference between a vaccine and a vaccination and we know that 50 percent of americans say that they wouldn't take a vaccine right now because the worried about the process that created and so it doesn't matter if you have to radically have a vaccine if people are not willing to take it so there's no silver bullet what we need to do is basic problem health we need to invest in testing we need to invest in contact tracing and the fact that we're not doing that as a society particularly as we go into the fall schools open in colleges universities open and we move indoors because it's getting colder outside the risk of a serious increase in transmissions as is always that we saw what happened over the summer and the last thing i'll say is not you know when we're worried about deaths

in particular watching what might happen with concomitant flu increase could be really really serious particular for the highest risk patients who of course are folks with preexisting conditions and and the elderly and so this is this is this is not a good situation or walking into right now and it could get a lot worse and we have to remember that do you see any cause for optimism. well we see cause for optimism larry. i believe that you know we got a choice about the leadership that we want and and i believe that if in this country we are willing to put science ahead of the political aims of a particular president if we're willing to invest in basic public health if we are willing to forego some of our own creature comforts so that those who need to be able to get to be together to learn and in to engage in society if we're willing to

do all those things then we can keep this this this this virus that they look we're at any time or within a month of vastly taking down the transmission but it has to be because all of us decide that we're going to be a part of the solution so long as we have people who are trying to divide us and to politicize this virus we're probably not going to get there but the fact that we can and the fact that we could make that decision the fact that we could stand up and decide that we are going to take this thing on that's always cause for optimism and i'm never going to give up on that hope what degree of confidence do you have in the pandemic data i am confident in in the data that we have right now i worry that there is a lot of attempts at political interference but right now i am confident in the data that we have. that being set. the directions that this white house is taking you know taking that data responsibilities away from the c.d.c.

and centralizing it with some corporation in in washington d.c. the impact that the pressure that they put on the c.d.c. to change guidelines their appointment of a neural radiologist who is you know a doctor focused on imaging a brain rather than a baby epidemiologist or an infectious disease doctor as the top white house advisor on cove in 1000 these are all really worrying and so while i'm confident that the data we have right now is legitimate i worry always about the political interference with that data and that we all have to be vigilant particularly the journalists and the 4th estate to make sure that those numbers are real and that they can be depended upon because we need to know what's happening in our society with one of the greatest disasters in modern memory how we've been hearing a lot of the convalescent plasma as a treatment exactly what is it one of the pros one of the cons. so accomplice in

plasma is a a portion of the blood of people who have had a cold the 19 and in that blood so it's the part of the blood that doesn't have cells in it right so not red blood cells or white blood cells but in the blood there are a lot of other things including antibiotics and the the that the reasoning goes that if you give patients who are actively struggling with over 1000 some of that plasma that the antibodies inside of that plasma will be able to truly in their immune system to over 1000 and help them beat it now this is a treatment that is often used with different factions diseases it's being used right now the question is whether or not the f.d.a. should have given it in an emergency use our youth use use authorization because right now the data that we have to show that it is effective is really limited and problematic you know in science there are good ways of answering

a question and there are not so good ways of answering question and the question of is this effective for reducing death and disease to code in 1000 has only really been answered using some of the not so great ways and we need to wait until the best ways of answering the question you'll data and look at that data and make a decision and the worries here is that rather than following the science and the the best answers to that question there has been political pressure to produce a set of solutions we saw the president rush to extol the virtues of hydroxy chloroquine only to see that actually when we looked at that the a randomized controlled trials that it was not effective in fact the side effect profile was far worse in patients with over 1000 and so we've got to wait for the science and you know and so with with congress a plasma science is just not there yet in this is really worrying that we're seeing the politics push the process rather than the sites the annual flu shot as it

should everybody get one. yes everyone who is indicated to take one unless your doctor tells you you shouldn't take one you should be taking a flu shot it is really really important to remember that just because colvin 1000 is the disease that we're all focused on right now does not mean the flu has gone away and it's really important that people do what they can to protect themselves from a disease that could make over 1000 far worse supposing you have had 19 do you still get the flu shot. so that's a question for your particular doctor to answer you know for most people the course of cold in 1000 is is going to be self limited it's you know you know the symptoms will go away and at that point it's really important to dr doctor obviously for people who are having a serious illness and they're under direct medical care their doctors are the best place to make that choice but you know even if you've had a cold in 1000 which is the circumstance that most people are going to be and you should get a flu shot doctor of this is going to get worse how bad can it get. it

could get a lot worse and i just want to explain why the best estimates tell us that in order to get quote herd immunity the amount of sickness that we would have had to have is about 60 to 70 percent of people would have to be immune because they got the disease the best estimates tell us that even in new york one of the hardest hit parts of the entire country the number of people who've had it are about 20 percent and on average across the country you're not you're looking at single digit percentages we've had 185000 deaths and we've only gotten to single digit percentages of people who have the disease and potentially are immune and even then what we're starting to understand is they might not be immune because we have cases of people haven't got it now twice and so what that tells us is that if you had the had 10 to 15 times more disease think about how many more people would die but the

good news is that there's so much more we can do basic public health contact tracing testing masking social distancing all of these things can bring the transmission down and i remain optimistic because at any given time we're a month away from being able to tamp down the number of cases if we're willing to invest in doing these basic things in public health so yes they could get a lot worse but also a lot better. thank you so much we always love talking to you larry thank you so much for having me it's always a privilege thank you audie is for joining me on this edition of politicking remember you can join the conversation on my facebook page or tweet me at kings things and over get to use the politicking hash tag and that's all for this edition of politicking. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be

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