Keeping Up with the Coronavirus - The CDC Sows Confusion | Bernice A. King

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The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Hey, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah, and joining me for today's headlines is my very good friend Michael Costa. What's going on, Michael? How you doing, Hey, Trevor. I'm just trying to stick to my New Year's resolutions. I'm trying to read upside down more so, the purpose being, well, you know, I keep getting these upside down books in the mail, and uh, I don't know if it's supply

chain or Amazons. So I just figured instead of throwing them out, just learn how to read them. So, you know what, Michael, I wish the world had more people like you. A lot of people would have just thrown the books away. But I'm challenging myself to read upside down. I love that. I knew that you would get it. Yeah, you just see the world in a completely different way. I guess I could also flip it, but then i'd have to read it. Then then I would have to

go upside down. It's easier for me to do it like that. You know, sometimes I wonder how this pandemic has gone on this long because there are people like you in the world, and I'm like, how haven't we solved it already? Thank you so much, dude. Yes, that's exactly right. Good, I'm gonna read it. Just read a little bit. You go ahead, you go ahead. All right, Well he's doing that. Let's jump right into today's headlines. We begin with the big news from the world of sports.

And no, I'm not talking about all the great NFL playoff games over the weekend. I mean, I've always said, man, the most exciting games are the ones that are over in the first quarter. No, I'm talking about Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis star whose name is worth up to a hundred and forty points in scramble. This is supposed to have been a big week for Djokovic, but like my dream of starring in the biopic of wird L, it

wasn't meant to be. The Australian Open got under way Monday without the world's number one ranked male tennis player, Novak Djokovic, returned to his day to Serbia after being deported from Australia for not being vaccinated against COVID. The Australian government said it canceled his visa because Djokovic's presence could lead to an increase in anti vaccination sentiment and even civil unrest. Australia requires everyone entering the country to

be vaccinated or have a medical exemption. Djokovic had an exemption because of a recent COVID infection, but it's sparred to outrage in Australia, apparently prompting the government to act. An opinion poll yesterday showed seventy of Australians wanted Djokovic deported. It says a lot about you when that many Australians think you're too dangerous to be in their country. I mean, this is the country whose health minister is a giant, poisonous spider or I get things done in Australia is

the last country you want to get deported from. I mean, imagine, imagine stepping off a twenty five hour flight and then immediately having to get on another twenty five hour flights. I don't know what djokovic thing is in the vaccine, but it can't possibly be worse than breathing in thoughts for fifty hours straight. But then again, it's not that

surprising that Djokovic would be against the vaccine. Keep in mind that this is a man who says he knows that he has a gluten intolerance, and this is completely true because he's physically weaker if he's holding a slice of bread. Yeah, so gluten works like kryptonite for him. You think COVID is scary, but Djokovic could die just walking past the bakery. I will say, as hard as it is to sympathize with Djokovic, it is a little disturbing that the Australian government allowed him in then deports

to him just because they change their minds. I mean, if a government can arbitrarily deports an athlete, or's to stop them from deporting a whole team? And how can we get it to be the New York Jets? And also I love how the Australian government is proclaiming that there's some health component to this as if. I mean, you've been to Australia. It's not exactly the health the asculpture. They eat terrible food, They drink exuberant amounts of beer.

A blue and onion has like forty thousand calories. Trevor, and you're gonna kick this guy out of the tennis tournament, you still haven't kicked out the sting ray that killed Steve Irwin, You know what I mean? And I can relate to Novak Djokovic because I've been kicked out of a bunch of outback steakhouses, and same as Novak, they said it was an issue with my visa. I don't know what that means, but yeah, I stand with you. What's the guy gotta do to be allowed to play

the tournament? Nine time champion, three time defending champion, world number one, tied all time for grand What do you gotta do, Trevor? Get vaccinated? Yeah? All right, let's move on to some technology and used arguably the most important tech breakthrough of the last few years has been five G. And there are a lot of crazy conspiracy theories you might have heard, like five G causes cancer or tois

um or it's a mind control tool. I mean, a few weeks ago, it was actually going around that when they turned on five G, anyone who had gotten the COVID vaccine was going to explode. This is the thing people believe, which is ridiculous. I mean, I have five G on my phone and I turned it on before we came out here, and look, nothing happens, you see.

But it turns out not everyone who has concerns anyway, It turns out not everyone who has concerns about five G, where as A ten hats this morning the major airlines warning of a possible catastrophic aviation crisis beginning in less than twenty four hours, when A T N T and Verizon are set to launch a new stronger five G

technology which would give faster wireless service. The concern whether five G signals could interfere with radio altimeters that's the device pilots used telling them how far they are from the ground and helping them land and poor visibility. Executives for airlines including American dealt United in Southwest urging US officials to keep new stronger five G signals at least two miles away from US airports, saying in the letter,

immediate intervention is needed to avoid significant operational disruption. To be blunt, the nation's commerce will grind to a halt. One union saying it's pilots are prepared to ground their planes if the f A doesn't act. Yeah, but how will they know how to ground their planes if there's five G? Just me, Okay, look, look, I'm not saying the airlines are making this up. I'm not saying that. But we all remember how they said the same thing

about regular cell phones for twenty years. Right, yeah, remember how terrified they had us. Everyone airplane mortal, This plane could crash. One time, I forgot to turn off my phone and then the plane hit turbulence and I looked at my phone was like a ship. This is me. I'm sorry, everybody, I'm sorry. So anyway, I don't think

the airlines are gonna win this fight. And honestly, even if it's true this time, if it's true, if you tell people that they can download a movie in a few seconds, but there's a slight chance it'll crash a plane, pretty sure people are gonna be like, yeah, it's it's worth it. I'll take that chance first downloads. Also, how is this my problem? I mean, you want me to take on the cell phone company industry in the airline industry, right,

you knew five G was coming? It comes after four G. You know it's after five G, Trevor, six G. How how do you want me to go? You know you're asking me to take on the Airline's a place where I can't even get a full can of coke or I can't even change my middle seed. This is not my problem. But you know what crashed together my friends.

I love that. That's what friendship is all about. That all right, let's make all our moms happy and go to church with this next story, have you ever seen a pastor who worked a little too hot to keep the congregation's attention? Well, one pasta and Oklahoma, Well he just out did them all and tells a church leader facing criticism for smearing his spit on a man's face during a sermon. It happened over the weekend. Gross, So

many people talk about this on social media. Yesterday, Pastor Michael Todd of Transformation Church in Vixby was giving a sermon on Sunday about how to quote received God's vision can be nasty. He said, I just bought my dream car, and now you're gonna ask me to send it back and ride in the hoof. Do you get yeah? Because

the vision I'm about to give you and might get nasty. Well, the pastor says, while he was trying to make a point in his sermon on Sunday, he realizes that he crossed the line and the guy on stage that was his brother. How is COVID still spreading in America? We're doing everything right. Huh, We're doing everything right. Look, I know it looks nasty, but I will say this pastor's point that God might ask you to do stuff that

other people don't like. He's not wrong. Yeah, all these people who are like, God doesn't want you to wipe your nasty spit on people. Yo. Somewhere Abraham is like, yo, he told me to kill my damned son. I wish he just wanted me to spit on him. You know what, misterpy me and my kid had to go to after that. She was never the same. The pastor is just trying to say, sometimes God will give you a message that

may throw you off, like flam in your face. And you know the fact that that was his brother, that he was doing that too. For me, that makes it even worse because now it feels like he just uses the scriptures to mess with his sibling. And God sends a great flood and to show you what that flood looked like, I'm gonna stick my brother's hand and some warm water while he sleeps. I don't know. I mean I I see this as a beautiful expression of spirituality

a cost. What are you talking about? This is disgusting, It's gross. Okay, A few I Honestly, I didn't want to say anything because it's a black church. But what the fun is going on? Dude? Huh is this? What is this what black church is all about? No, it's not. That's why it's disgusting. I mean that being said, it's not as bad as what happens at white church. But you're right about it. When religion was invented, they were doing some dark ship. It kind of shows how sensitive

we are now. A little spit on the face from your brother. I mean, my brother used to pin me down and drink orange juice and then do the the you know what that is. No, I don't know what to do. The spit down to the face and then you know, you went back up. I'm sorry. I didn't realize my brother was just presenting me with scripture at the time. You didn't do that. Maybe it's just my brother. Did you know he was doing this when he was

drinking the orange juice? Did you know what was coming? Sometimes? That was that was so tricky. Half the time he was just having some breakfast orange juice, and the other time he was getting ready to kick the ship out of me. So that's trauma, coustumes, that's trauma. Yeah, and uh, you know he's probably watching, and I'm onto you, dude, and and I don't I don't you know, I guess you won because here I am crying on TV about it. We're gonna talk about this in the break. We're gonna

we're gonna fix this all right. When we come back, we'll tell you why you're wearing the wrong mosque and how to get the right mosque and why that mosque is also wrong. So stay tuned, because you see your brother con is that No, no, I was just just trying to keep breathing upside down. You go ahead, man,

Welcome back to the Daily Show. We are now answering year fifty of the coronavirus pandemic, and dealing with life in a pandemic has been a struggle for a lot of people, small in the owners, teachers and of course people with a chin fitish. But one group that's having a tougher time than you'd expect is the CDC. So let's catch up with all the latest in another edition

of Keeping Up with Corona. From the beginning of this pandemic, the CDC has tried to give clear, simple guidelines to the public and from the beginning, they have mostly failed. I mean, do you remember their masque chart Shop looked like a traffic lights had and aneurysm. And look, I'm not saying that telling million people how to behave during a global pandemic is easy, but it also doesn't seem like the CDC is getting any better at it. The

CDC has updated its guidance on masks. According to the agency, cloth masks do not protect against the virus as effectively as other masks, saying any mask is better than none, but masks that fit well like n offer the best protection. The agency stopping short ofverging all Americans to upgrade their masks, drawing immediate criticism from some health experts. You know, the approach that the CDC has taken right now with mask

and I think just adds to the confusion. We should be making it loud and clear that the ninety five rush freighters are really the only thing that will really protect you. Okay, okay, hold on, hold on. If cloth mosques don't protect you, then tell people they need to wear a better mosque. What's this, Well, it doesn't really work, but but it's it's fine. It's fine. I mean, in that case, I might as well wear a T shirt with a seatbelt drawn on it instead of an actual

seat belt. Yeah, I mean it looks like a seatbelt doesn't protect me, but I mean apparently that's enough, right. The thing I really don't understand is, now that we know cloth mosques don't work, who are the people who are still wearing them? Huh? Because look, we've pretty much got two teams. Yeah, You've got the people who are scared of COVID and they're running around looking like Bain. And then you've got people who think COVID is total bullshits,

so they refuse to wear a mosque altogether. And I don't agree with them, but at least they stand by their beliefs and they don't care if those beliefs end up killing their workers in the Supreme Court. But a cloth mosque, it's just wishy washy, like you either want to protect yourself or you don't. You can't just the tip the coronavirus come on people. It's like someone being like, yeah, I wear condoms, but only if they made like a doily by my condoms on Etsy. At the same time,

though this does suck. I mean, we spent two years building up a whole wardrobe of cloth mosques. You know, I had musque for every situation. I had my work mosque, at my weekend mosque, at my masques, for going to funerals, at my masques, for going to weddings. It's too bad now if you wore a cloth mask because the CDC was kind of okay with it and you got infected with COVID. Well, the CDC also has some new guidelines for how long you should isolate from other people, and

it turns out those guidelines so weird as hell. At the same time, the CDC finds itself facing backlash over some of its other recommendations concerning how long those who have tested positive for COVID should isolate and whether a

negative test should be required to end that isolation. The CDC says the infected can end isolation if fever free just five days after a positive test, When a study of infections in the NBA suggests more than a third are probably still infectious ending isolation, the day five should include a negative rapid antigen test, tweeted one of the researchers. Why do all the work to identify infections if we are going to just let them go back to work

while still potentially infectious. Yeah, that's a great point. These CDC guidelines could be sending people back to work while they are still contagious. It's like the CDC is trying to turn every office into the CDC office. Look, if we have to work alongside deadly viruses every day, then so do you? Why would you do that? Why would you test and then still let the person go? Imagine if the T s A had that philosophy, just like

pat you down? Is that a gun? Yeah? All right, go on now, to be fair, To be fair, Dr Fauci says that these new rules are an attempt to keep the most infectious people at home while also getting essential workers back to work faster, because, let's face it,

basically everyone has omicron right now. And if people don't have to be in isolation as long, then hopefully hospitals can bring back nurses faster, you know, hopefully schools can bring back teachers, and the NBA teams can stop signing sweaty dads that they found at the local y m c A. But even after you come out of your much shorter isolation, the c d C has some pretty

weird expectations of what you should be doing next. Part of the guidance we recently got from the c d C was what to do after five days of isolation, once you're out and you have no more symptoms. They say, these are the people you should stay away from after you and your COVID five day isolation. People who are overweight, battling depression, current or former smokers, and pregnant people. That's nearly nine out of ten people. You guys, you know,

the CDC is create easy people. You can come out of isolation as long as you don't interact with basically any other person. You realize you're describing isolation. And look, I understand, I understand that the CDC wants to protect vulnerable populations, but this is a legit minefield. I mean, you know what's not going to help depress people. Everyone's staying away from them. Not to mention, we're supposed to

stay away from overweight people. CDC is gonna get people canceled because now you're gonna be like, hey, I can't hang out with you for a few days, and they're gonna be like why not. Uh. Honestly, it sounds like the CDC is trying to describe a very specific person, but just doesn't want to call them out. That's what it seems like. They don't embarrass them. Stay away from a former smoker who's pregnant, whose hair is curly but everybody knows is actually a perm and she's really into

pandas even though she's never been to China. Her name rhymes with mamantha. And look, I know that a lot of this confusion is because the virus itself is confusing. I understand that it's constantly changing. We'll in you things, and it's hard to keep up. It's like trying to stay on top of TikTok trends. You're like, okay, I finally learned that I ain't ever been with a batty dance, and TikTok is like, no, we're doing encanto memes now.

But it absolutely does not help when the people who have to explain what to do in response to the virus answer like this, At what point does the administration saying, you know what, the strategy isn't working, We're going to change strategies. Six former administration officials last week wrote that open letter urging the administration to change course, to change strategy. Is it time? It is time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day.

It is time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day. How does that sound so familiar? Oracle? When will it be done? It is time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day. Now. Look, communist point was that the administration doesn't need a new plan because we already have a way out of this pandemic,

which is everyone getting vaccinated. But it should be obvious by now that hoping everyone gets vaxed isn't enough, which is why the Biden administration is rolling out a new plan to get everyone in America and at home COVID test just as soon as the omicron wave is over. Just into the Sena news room. The website where you can order free COVID nineteen at home tests from the government is up and running. The site was quietly launched today.

We just checked it does work. Go to www dot COVID tests dot gov and that's where you can order your test. At this point you can order four per household, and we're told the bill ship within seven to twelve days of ordering. About a week to a week and a half. So let's say you go online and tomorrow you place an order. On Wednesday the nineteen, they should be on their way to you by the end of the month. Okay, okay, look, I mean it's great the

tests are finally going to be available to everyone. But seven into twelve days. I don't think that's a little too long in a pandemic. I mean, every day is precious. Every single day's precious in the pandemic. If anyone should know that, it's Joe Biden. You know, I can't help but think that if America just took a military approach to COVID, this testing thing would be solved like that because there's no delays when it comes to the American military.

America doesn't need bombs and then start building them. America always has bombs ready to go. America wants to drone someone, No one is like, okay, we can place the order now, and then we wait seven to twelve days unless there's a holiday. Then in that case, no, it's just boom, that terrorist is gone. Baby, what was just a family were boom? There's still gone. I stand by my boom. If America was that proactive when it comes to pandemics. We would have all gotten these tests months before, oh

mcron even got here a little. To be honest with you, I don't even know if I trust at home tests. We're just gonna test ourselves antigens is that before after we mess up the directions on an easy Mac. So look, I know a lot of people are frustrated with the government right now, and they're depressed that this pandemic seems to never end. Like when are we going back to normal life? When can we go to work and hang out with friends like we used to? When is the

Daily Show going back to having an audience? You got me, Trevor, you don't count. It's all a mess. But the good news is the good news is it won't be a mess much longer because people, if we just keep doing what we've been doing, then it'll be time to keep doing it every day until it's time. All right, when we come back, Dr Benice King will join us to talk about the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. You don't want to miss it. I'm sorry a little. I just yeah, I just I'm sorry, man, I should I

lost it. I'm sorry. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is Dr Benice A. She's the daughter of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. And Coreta Scott King. She's here to talk about advancing the legacy of her parents through her work as the CEO of the King Center. Dr Benice King, Welcome to the Daily Show. Thank you. I am so honored to be here. UM. Let me stop by saying happy belated, Uh Martin Luther

King Junior Day. UM. I've seldom seen a holiday that seems to be celebrated by as many different people in as many different ways as I have seen with m LK Day in America and as the daughter of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. I'd love to know what you feel MLK Day should be about. Well. I try to capture in three ways. It's a time to educate, advocate, and activate and people follow under you know, each one

of those in different ways. Uh. Some some people use this as a time to you know, advance the teachings of Dr King, and then some people advocate that many shoes that are we're faced with in this nation, um, that people are concerned about, and they used that time to raise their voices to advocate for issues and groups of people in fact, and then activate how do we capture the holiday under one massive theme and focus. And it became about a day of service, so we started

touting a day on, not a day off. In your lifetime, you saw your father go from from being one of the most hated men in America to now being one of the most beloved men in America. But ironically almost not because he's changed, but because people have changed what he stood for. Hmm. That's an interesting insight, Trevor. I've

never heard it put that way. Wow. Yeah, because we have an affinity for for for their deceased leaders, they're more comfortable when they're no longer with us because they are not able to, you know, influence the masses in the same way. You know. It's kind of like good and evil. When you have something that's so powerful revolutionary like that, you know, people do want to kind of

find the easy, comfortable part of it. Um And I agree with you that that that has happened, um and And, and that's why we have to continue to be resolute in teaching the whole king. I think there's no escaping the fact that his whole essence cannot be spoken about without speaking about your mother, Curtis God King, what do you what do you wish people knew about the work that she was doing to help fight for civil rights

in America? In many ways, I think she was much more advanced, um, you know, uh than my father morally, uh and in terms of her um insight, she gave him a lot of you said, sounding board feedback when he prepares messages and sermons. Um. But probably one of the most important ways is when it was when he spoke out against the Vietnam War in nineteen seven. You know, um,

everybody turned against him. Literally, the black leaders of a fee urbanly they all turned against him because they felt that we had made so much progress on the civil rights front from the Johnson administration that we need to kind of you know, you know, you know, be careful at this point that we don't alienate. Yeah, And so um, my mom said, Martin, we could really use your moral authority and voice. I mean, look when you said he's

most hated and now one of the most loved. What I say to people is the reason all of what we know about Dr King at the level that we know it, um, And why we can't seem to shake him. It is because she she immediately went to work two and a half months afterward, a grieving with our with four little children. She had this amendous called to continue their work, and she was very strategic and everything she did, um,

it's it's it's like to me. That's why I call it the architect of the King Legacy, because she really provided a blueprint for how we must continue to remember Dr King and his teaching, and in all uncertain terms, she was insistent that we understood those teachings. You see some of the opponents of of voting rights using your father's words in their defense or using it on a day to say I'm pro moderin Luther King Jr. And then almost you know, ignoring his teachings on on what

he believed in. You're looking at a country that right now is considering getting rid of the filibuster. How do you grapple with the idea of the filibuster where voting rights needs to go in America and the risk of not having a filibuster in a country where power goes back and forth the entire time. Yeah, you know, I've had mixed feelings about it. I mean, I've I've tweeted out about you know, doing away with it. But you know, it's it's a difficult thing because the filibuster is neutral

as we know it. It's how it's used that makes it, uh something for good or for bad. We would not be a democracy if we did not have voting rights. And I agree with the Republicans in the sense that we should make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. But how that looks as different, you know, um, And

that's what we need to be talking more about. So it's it's kind of hypocritical to me, um to say we shouldn't set aside this filibuster and just at this point vote on what the majority says for something that's funny then to everybody, so you got away you know the workaround, you know, like with Kurston Cinema and um and and and Manson saying, you know, you know, the poisonous aspect of our democracy and we have to stop

what you just said, the back and forth. I actually agree we did have to do that, but at at the price is what we're looking at, the price of them getting back in charge and saying, okay, you did this, So we're gonna do this life, y'all about the Boston or the damage of millions of people being disenfranchised. That's what we're looking at you. I hear you, and and and it is a it is a it is a dilemma.

And again, funny enough, I think that's something that your father doesn't get credited enough with, is how much strategy he had to put into the movement, how strategic cats are? Can you can you? Can you say that again, because that's what's missing today. Before I let you go, I want to talk about some of the work that you've been doing recently, um in spreading some some some really wonderful messages. You know, many people know you. You you have a fantastic new book out talking about love and

it's it's a it's a beautiful experience. Yes, there it is.

It starts with me, and it's a it's a really wonderful story of a young girl who's going out there and changing the world in in in you know, in her expression of love and and and doing things whilst also you know, loving people, not just sitting back, um, but you're also the CEO of the King Center, and you you've done something really revolutionary and and and different for an organization, and that you've moved a lot of your lessons and a lot of the ideas about non

violence online. Talk me through that a little bit, if you don't mind. We found a way to kind of developed an online experience that is reflective of what we do in person. So non violence for us is a love centered way of thinking, engage in speaking, and acting that brings about personal, cultural, and societal transformation. Daddy said, and I have a dream. It's a part that most people missed in his speech. We must forever conduct our

struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. He was talking about how we talk to you know, words are powerful. In my Christian tradition, we say death in life and the power of the tongue. You can murder somebody with your tongue. So when people say I'm not violent because they don't do anything physically, it's not confined to that. We cleared that up even in this this online experience. For some reason, people think love is something like this, you know, man, be pan be weak kind

of thing. It's not what love does. Is it make sure that you are always trying to elevate the situation and even the person. So I try to participate in that part of the struggle. And that's what nonviolence, you know, really represents. And I think if we get to that place, we can have these hard conversations. But I like to I like to talk to people the way where the

defenses come down. I'm learning how to listen because that's a non violence you know, UM where um tool as well listen if my friend John Bryant of Operations Home will say, listen without being defensive and speak talk without being offensive. H thank you so much for continuing to share not just your father's legacy, but your mother's as well. And uh, you know, a story that has changed the nation forever. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank

you so much. Don't forget people. Dr King's book, It Starts with Me is available right now. For more information on the King's Centers non Violence three six five online classes, visit the website below. We're gonna take a quick break, but we'll be right back after this. Well that's our show for tonight, but before we go, if you like what you heard from Dr Bernice King tonight, then consider

supporting the King Center. The King Center is dedicated to educating the world on the life and teachings of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. And to inspiring new generations to carry forward his unfinished work. If you can help support his vision, please donate at the link below until tomorrow. Stay safe out there, get your vaccine, and remember cloth mosques are not for COVID protection, They're just for rubbing banks.

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