{"id":13859,"date":"2021-05-13T18:29:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T01:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13859"},"modified":"2021-05-13T18:40:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T01:40:30","slug":"a-great-day-for-america-cdc-ends-most-masking-social-distancing-for-fully-vaccinated-bradcast-5132021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13859","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A Great Day for America&#8217;: CDC Ends (Most) Masking, Social Distancing for Fully Vaccinated: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 5\/13\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_BidenHarrisMaskFree-TrumpAF1_051321.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">We barely made it for today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, after a nightmarish computer crash. So, if today&#8217;s show is an odd, disjointed mess that makes no sense at all, feel free to blame Microsoft. But if it&#8217;s great, I&#8217;ll take all the credit! [<i>Audio link to full show is posted below summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Among the stories covered on today&#8217;s program&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Huge <a href=\"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/13\/health\/cdc-masks-guidance.html\">news today from the CDC<\/a>! &#8220;This is a great day for America,&#8221; President Joe Biden proclaimed in the Rose Garden, after his mask free meeting with vaccinated Republicans in the Oval. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/vaccines\/fully-vaccinated.html\">fully vaccinated<\/a> may now take off their masks <i>in most places<\/i> both indoors and out, and end social distancing protocols, according to the CDC&#8217;s surprise announcement. There are a few caveats, as we discuss, and, of course, even though this weekend marks two weeks since the second COVID shot for Desi and me (and the &#8220;fully vaccinated&#8221; status that comes with it), we&#8217;ve still got a few reservations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Even the friends on <i>Fox and Friends<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/a36396200\/fox-and-friends-vaccination-segment\/\">admit they are all vaxxed up<\/a> now! But even that hasn&#8217;t kept them from continuing to pump disinformation about vaccines into the veins and brains of their horrifically misinformed viewers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The quest continues to get shots into arms of the hesitant &#8212; many of whom not-coincidentally-at-all happen to be Republican male and Fox &#8220;News&#8221; viewers. Some GOP state Governors are now coming up with clever incentives. West Virginia&#8217;s Jim Justice is offering <a href=\"https:\/\/governor.wv.gov\/News\/press-releases\/2021\/Pages\/COVID-19-UPDATE-Gov.-Justice-West-Virginia-offering-100-savings-bond-to-residents-age-16-to-35-who-get-vaccinated.aspx\">$100 savings bonds<\/a> to residents age 16 to 35 who get their shots. Ohio&#8217;s Mike DeWine announced on Wednesday that vaxxed up Buckeye Staters will be <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/ohio-governor-dewine-covid-vaccine-lottery\">eligible to win 1 million dollars<\/a> in a lottery, five weeks in a row! (But why not 10 winners each week of $100,000? We discuss.) In both cases, the payoffs are coming courtesy of the federal government, via Joe Biden and the Democrats&#8217; American Rescue Plan, which <i>no Republicans voted fo<\/i>r. But it&#8217;s nice to see Republican Governors enticing their residents with &#8220;socialist&#8221; cash prizes!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And then there&#8217;s Georgia&#8217;s embarrassing Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/greene-ocasio-cortez\/2021\/05\/12\/fd61d664-b37e-11eb-a3b5-f994536fe84a_story.html\">&#8220;aggressively confronted&#8221;<\/a> New York&#8217;s Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday night in the halls of Congress. She followed her, stalked her, and called her a &#8220;terrorist&#8221; and a <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/greene-ocasio-cortez-terrorists\">&#8220;chicken&#8221;<\/a> for refusing, apparently, to debate her about&#8230;whatever. It was some top-notch 5th grade level bullying, but nothing new for the loathsome Greene. Her caucus, apparently, has no problem with her behavior, even as they <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13857\">voted this week to remove Rep. Liz Cheney from her leadership position<\/a> because she refuses to participate in the Big Lie about a stolen election and believes Donald Trump should be held accountable for inciting an insurrection on the U.S. Capitol.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And, yes, it was an insurrection, despite the attempts by House GOPers in recent days to pretend that it was not. (Here&#8217;s some <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brikeilarcnn\/status\/1392825813230407681?s=21\">fresh video evidence<\/a> if you need it.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of accountability (or lack thereof), Politico offers a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2021\/05\/13\/how-palm-beach-is-preparing-for-a-possible-trump-indictment-492836\">fascinating scoop<\/a> today &#8212; for some reason &#8212; regarding extradition statutes in two different states in the event that, for example, someone who is staying at a resort in Palm Beach, Florida or Bedminster, New Jersey finds themselves criminally indicted by a District Attorney from Manhattan within the next few months. Hmmm&#8230;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And, speaking of a bit more accountability &#8212; let&#8217;s say, at the federal level &#8212; on Wednesday night, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/legal-issues\/mcgahn-committee-interview-subpoena\/2021\/05\/12\/d3b2217a-b38d-11eb-a980-a60af976ed44_story.html\">struck a court-approved deal<\/a> with the U.S. Dept. of Justice for Donald Trump&#8217;s White House Counsel Don McGahn to finally answer his 2019 subpoena to testify about his starring role in the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Docs\/Mueller-Report_REDACTED_041819.pdf\">448-page report [PDF]<\/a> issued by Special Counsel Robert Mueller concerning at least 10 documented instances of apparent criminal obstruction by the disgraced former President. No extradition charges are needed for federal indictments&#8230;unless the perp flees the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13858\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> as the Colonial Pipeline restarts after a ransomware attack shut down the nation&#8217;s largest pipeline network (and, yes, as I asserted in the <i>GNR<\/i>, we learned later today the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/security\/colonial-pipeline-paid-ransomware-hackers-5-million-u-s-official-n1267286\"><i>did<\/i> pay a ransom<\/a> to the hackers!); as gas hording Americans on the Eastern Seaboard have been panic-buying; as the Biden Administration greenlights the first major offshore wind farm in the U.S.; and as Tesla dumps Bitcoin due to its massive carbon footprint&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-CDCEndsMasksDistancingForVaxxed-GreeneAOC-TrumpExtradition-McGahnToTestify_051321.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We barely made it for today&#8217;s BradCast, after a nightmarish computer crash. So, if today&#8217;s show is an odd, disjointed mess that makes no sense at all, feel free to blame Microsoft. But if it&#8217;s great, I&#8217;ll take all the credit! 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