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Greetings and salyut a shim well well well well well my friends we have a big nose today as russia has developed a possible back scene for covert 19 reuters and other news outlets around the world now reporting russia has indeed become the 1st country to grant a Regulatory Approval to a covert 19 vaccine after less than 2 months of human testing a move moscow likened to its success in the cold war era of the space race and apparently russian president Vladimir Putin is so high on the efficacy of sub vaccine that he even had one of his own daughters take it. Theres no actual word yet on a u. S. President donald trump has put a banker to put me on an intravenous drip of my drug sequoia queen and lysol in an effort to outdo his russian counterpart will keep you and keep you abreast of that does happen and while us back sports and political political as well now dust off the old cold war 2. 0 debate over moscows. Potential vaccine on cable news channels and social media to no end the virus itself continues to flourish here in the u. S. Especially inside the walls of United States prisons work order analysis by the u. C. L. A. School of laws code 19 behind bars data project and john hopkins the nobel coronaviruses now infecting american Prison Inmates at a rate more than 5 times higher than the overall u. S. Population and thats climbing in fact at the Federal Correctional Institution and see go will texas the federal bureau of prisons reports that more than 1300 of the approximately 1750 prisoners held there have tested positive for covert 19 these brutal statistics of lead to multiple uprisings among the incarcerated populations across the United States just last week in georgia violence broke out of where state prison where the Atlanta Journal constitution reports that quote tensions were running high due to cope with 192 people incarcerated at the prison have died of the disease while 22 inmates and 32 employees have tested positive. So if cope with 19 on fire inside us prisons exposing even more horrors of our Prison Industrial Complex i think thats a good place to start watching the hawks. If you want to know whats going on a city you streets you want to see. Them so lets see see rises you always just stay ill see you will slice mass graves see desolate systemic deceptions the late show which i will sell when the guild. And welcome everyone watching the hawks i am to roll them and im going to try and joining us today to discuss the state of u. S. Prisons as we get deeper into the 1st year of the cobra 1000 pandemic is the president of the n. W. Slepian georgia mr james wood all and dr andre m. Perry author and fellow at the metropolitan policy program at the Brookings Institute thank you both for coming on today. So look over probably have overcrowding lack of proper medical care or unsanitary Living Conditions were already major issues in the u. S. Prison system how is covert 19 exacerbated these existing issues dr perry your thoughts. Well if you mentioned it were looted. Art. That. Were its product. Areas. Are. Areas. There are also. Areas people have little recourse and so we need to look for examine the conditions in prisons in and we need to socially distance people and create the kind of conditions that enable people to thrive and so in the short of it is that prisons are in the main places that that are conducive for virus spread. And other illnesses. And james here in washington d. C. A family of an inmate recently died from cobain while being held in North Carolina wasnt informed of his death by the bureau of prisons until over 100 days after it occurred we talk about coping in prisons we often only focus on the guards the staff and inmates but how has this crisis affected the families and communities surrounding the u. S. Prison system. Well thank you for that question in son of a father who currently serving a sentence in a Georgia State prison ive known too well what that impact does my father got colvin on t. V. We were not able to know really know what the status of your health was you know Legal Counsel is not able to visit these inmates we have complaints of people not even being able to get the kind of recreation. Accustomed to serving time so you know this situation is exacerbated. I was just on the wire many of ways which is what you mean izing just i frankly just in so there must be action taken action taken now to not only save not ours but also to save money every Single Person in the prison system in this country you know has been has been damaged and broken for a long time thats why i agree with a lot of people that say you know we need to abolish the prison system as we know what rebuild it from the ground up finally turn it into a place of reform rather than incarceration but i also want to talk about Something Else because gentlemen if we cant keep covert from spreading like wildfire in a lockdown secure environment like a potential how can we begin to expect to contain covert in our schools james i want to start. Well what we have to look at really what this disease is actually doing and i honestly believe that we have done ourselves a disservice when. Or not honest from a state and National Level as to whether the risk factors involved in this situation if we as a community forwards us economy in money in commerce over the actually all the lives of people who live in our communities big we can actually defeat this disease this virus is so as weak as it relates to school and we talk about opening up colleges and universities we talk about open you go well i mean really nursery you know what were talking about is not the actual helping people but rather how can we keep money flow into peoples pockets how can we keep the bottom line up in margins here in such a basket and we dont lose billions of dollars from me economic standpoint but also as a as we are up market so the 1st step is actually hours out of peoples lives not money but in the 2nd part of actually being make sure that people have access to you know resources dr perry or what are your thoughts on that i mean the schools even stand a chance if we can even keep covert from from turning our prisons into even worse nightmares than they already are. Well 1st of all i want to cosigned. Double a c. P. President said my father also died in prison and i just want to be clear that the the that Structural Racism that actually put us in position to be in prison the Structural Racism that robs School Districts of the resources needed to protect children come from the same racist street and so no we wont be able to protect children and communities because one that the federal government have half not passed a spending bill that enables School States and School Districts to purchase the p. P. S. To socially distance in in classrooms and on buses to provide the technology so when you do have to shut down a school they can do Remote Learning and so and they not being able to get those resources to schools because they simply do not care about black people and so for me its clear that this is an epidemic well have more epidemic so there are always some type of tragedy it will repeat itself time and time again until we sure are eradicate the Structural Racism that continues to put black people in in a vulnerable position. Powerful and very true and my heart goes out to you i also lost my mom in a prison as well he died from cancer. Nearly 100000 kids 100000 kids in america have been affected with public 19 in just the last 2 weeks of july states like georgia are refusing a math mandate for students even though experts like dr anthony 1000 recommend all schools mandate universal mask wearing our schools across the United States only way to handle in Person Learning at this. Stage in the pandemic or do you think there is an alternative and at since you know we mentioned george ill start with you james. Well i think thats a very difficult question because one we as a community we dont need the government to tell us whats right or wrong we have a state we have a nation that has not done the right thing but we at the Community Level we know was guess what so regardless if it doesnt it mandates we mandate mask or not we need to tell our people to make sure that they wear a mask thats one of the reasons why we shoot in executive order myself as a state president in which all of our members all of our supporters all of our friends and family all we have mass when theyre on public because i dont need the governor of the state of georgia to tell us what is in the best interest of our people if we are on the community in the grass roots level we know what it takes to say. Im not im done waiting for. Government officials to do was in best interest of our people in this you know or that number to save our peoples lot because were going to not. Yet. Known schools are not ready. You see the schools on dont even know what day to open schools its endemic the lack of preparedness that schools and School Districts have the congress had 5 months to prepare for this 5 months and its almost as if the pandemic occurred a few weeks ago and so until schools have the resources to open safely and meet Safety Standards as well as the educational standards they will not be ready in what was pointed out earlier that as students congregate in crowded spaces there since these facilitating the spread those kids go back to their homes and spread. The disease of the illness more and so kids dont live in schools they live in communities schools are not some kind of bubble in which they are sheltered from the rest of the community and so we need to protect the community and the schools and till they are. Returned safely i would not advise a parent to send their child to a place that is simply not ready to take on on kids safely. Thats a great point you bring up and very quickly i just want to ask ask you both a bit at the end of all this is that what what do you believe believe colbert has truly shown as far as the truth of the american system whether its schools or just a story i think you know you guys a bit more going in the trenches for a long time i mean realistically covert is not just exposing that the idea of american exceptionalism was always a myth to begin with dr perry you could start with a little bit of time well. Yeah i was going to say that it really revealed the Structural Racism that is present in our country black people are dying at a higher rate and going to speak because not because of cove it. Attacks black people but it it attacks the conditions in which we live and those conditions were set in generations ago and theyre set every day and so racism is the preexisting condition that we need to get rid of not and not blame it on asthma or diabetes and all those other things that its Structural Racism that is making us vulnerable Structural Racism that it will destroy the resources needed to make our schools say the Structural Racism that puts black people in prison at higher rates and keeps them those conditions unsafe and so all this is doing is revealed playing the person issues policy that attacks black people every day in this country. And not had that its not just you know i and im the president in it was me i get it but its not just white people this is displaying it well in many ways what black you have known for 100 years is that the institution the empire of America Western civilization is here is not here if he cares more about our work if i see me in actual law and so we talk about. One of us when we talk about the Unemployment Insurance benefits theyre not going to talk about us yes literally becoming bankrupt because the people that are in leadership care more about your bottom line unwilling alexiss actually living the ones. We have a system thats committed more to the preservation of our it seemed so prevalent in actual peoples lives in so that is it racism thats like White Supremacy that is reflected. In this indication of the negro is so on so what do you go down a lot. Outside i say james thats powerful stuff and i hate to cut you off got to go to break but excellent excellent stuff mr james wood on dr andrea perry thank you so much for coming on and educating our audience always a pleasure having you both on and the good work that you do thank you so much. All right as we go to break over whether you can also still watch knocks on demand in the brand new portable t. V. s which is available on all platforms and coming up the battle over Public Versus Private Health Care is magnified in the time of coverage tonight stay tuned to watching the hawks. The world is driven by a dream shaped by the person. Thinks. We are here to ask. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to air force base in alaska where is that to say come on ill show you whats the reason for any type of enhanced u. S. Military presence in this area russia. What is it suddenly about the South China Sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil. Take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have Nuclear Weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so thats why were going to drill down on the story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly its time to do news again. Health care remains one of the primary issues at the top of voters minds across america with coronavirus in our midst the concern for health and insurance is only heightened access to Quality Health care has never been available to everyone your ability to pay determines the quality of health care you receive and your outcomes add race to the mix and things tend to get a lot worse politicians have been grappling with how best to serve Americas Health care needs for over 5 decades now notably Hillary Clinton 1st lady in the ninetys attempted and failed to bring hillary care and universal Health Care Package to fruition providing health care for everyone with loud it is a Big Government takeover in 1903 fast forward 220000 president Barack Obamas Affordable Care act attempted to pick up where hillary care left off obamacare passed and Health Insurance became more acceptable for millions of people meanwhile Medicaid Expansion allowed for several low income individuals to Access Health care for the 1st time but the a c a 2 didnt create a health care haven. Private Insurance Companies pulled out prices went up the cost of lifesaving pharmaceutical drugs like insulin are well beyond the reach of most pocketbooks wool medicine is on life support and Community Clinics across the country are closing rapidly and have been for the past 12 years all of this meanwhile the Racial Disparities in care continue to grow and cope with 19 late Americas Health care crisis bigger everything from overcrowded hospitals lack of access to testing wait times over a month for test results show complete chaos and few people trust the system what a single payer option be better is universal health care or medicare for all a better route is government even equipped to handle the challenges of americas growing Health Care Needs and infrastructure a recent opinion piece by libertarian commentator hannah cox provides a few insights and joins us now to share more welcome him. Or him out your piece new yorks bill your to use emergency hospitals as another reason to distrust Government Health care is a scathing critique of the states response to cope with 19 arguably you promote removing government from the business of health care what that look like and how with the private sector deliver better service. Well i think one thing that were seeing during covert 19 is just how intertwined government already is in our Health Care System right from the get go we saw government start removing certificate of need laws certain deregulating start taking away some regulations that they had around telling Health Services and things that were actually preventing people from accessing faster cheaper and Better Health care the competition we havent had at the National Level yet its one of those things in place to begin with it is actually make it harder to get Good Health Care things slow down the process and make it less accessible and we should never have those things and things and as weve seen states try to approach the massive operates especially new york city where i was in march and april during the height of their outbreak weve seen them catastrophic leigh sales and actually trying to get Adequate Health care to people who need it. Absolutely atrocious what happened in new york city and i think the only reason we havent seen that replicate in other states is fortunately you havent had instance of populations but i think what happened there gave me every reason to fear if the government ever running my health care we saw patients and you want to get beds we sell trucks with bodies being put into then they didnt have space to deal with the people we heard about things called bathroom codes that where people were waking up without attendants and not knowing where they were and trying to go and get help or going to the bathroom and coding of people who wouldnt have survived had they actually had Adequate Health care and so we saw a government stay out across the board i do think if we were true move a lot of the regulations early if we were to get government out of the system we were going to have a crony people out of the system we could start to bring down the cost and actually trying to buy a Health Care System for people that brings in the cox back down to a simple supply and demand type of functionality you know theres a big difference between you know capitalism and crony capitalism which is you know kind of turning capitalism on its head but we can look at the private sector still failed in many ways too in the code situation because cobra test result delays are primarily a private sector failing with Quest Diagnostics and lab corps being the test of priscillas responsible multiple players and bragman taishan in the private sector exacerbate administrative burdens and costs how to be used backs you know jibe with your narrative on private sector strength in handling Americas Health care crisis can the private sector without government help actually handle this when they couldnt even get the testing right. Right but when you think of the private sector fail to handle it you know what do we mean our private sector we certainly dont mean a free market sector because thats not what we have even the private sector still has to jump through hoops they have to wait for the f. D. A. To approve things the process we saw at the very beginning and if you arent able to adequately start developing the testing there is a lot of give and take over who can not the task what kind of tests were appropriate how many could administer them and they went back and forth not really slowed down the process of the rollout and so even though it might be private companies responsible for it still have great and enduring variability to fully and address the needs of the market so i think that when were talking about what would a private system look like we have to remember we havent had a private system in this country for at least a 100 years weve had a system that its overly run by government and even when you have private actors trying to do their best the consul have to jump through hoops and again i think we need to go back to one of the most important thing comes our Health Care System which is that government is intervening into the Health Care Market or its friends it is not doing this willy nilly its doing it for people who come in and pay a lot of money they lobby their friends in government because they want to protect their interests they want to block competition they want to ensure that they make the most money and that theyre the only option in the game and it works in new york city they have an overflow hospital only 79 patients they spent over 50000000 dollars and counting on this Overflow Center for 79 patients and one of the reasons they couldnt see more patients was that ambulances companies there had special contracts with government hospitals to where they had to take patients to the overflowing hospitals even the city beds were right there at the overflow hospitals thats the kind of cronyism you get under government where they are padding the pockets of the size of a few selected companies and so its to the disadvantage of all of us and hannah we know that several countries have successful government run universal Health Care Systems that boast lowering Overall Health care costs lowering administrative costs and creating an Overall Healthier society through better preventative care. Like australia canada switzerland and the u. K. Theyve all handled covert 19 better than the United States doesnt this make the case for Government Run Health Care. I dont think it makes a case for Government Healthcare but i am going to agree with you that our Health Care System needs to be totally redone its a hot mess its embarrassment makes a mockery of our foundational beliefs and it really is a battle its our company that claim to be capitalists this isnt how it free market would function and it really needs to be addressed i dont think it makes a case for Government Run Health Care because even in this country while they boast about their health care and 2 while its maybe cheaper on its face they also cant bring you we cant get beds for basic surgeries when they need it we have people coming across the border from canada here to get operations done and so its you know in what capacity do they have great Healthcare Systems that you can see a general practitioner pretty quickly and cheaply maybe yeah but as far as other real medical needs i dont know that it actually measures up and furthermore our country is just not comparable to countries like australia or england that have you know the population of a couple of our states so i think when we think about the National Federal Government Health care for 360000000 people that terrifies me ive never seen the federal government handle anything well for 360000000 people and something is as dire as health care should not be left up to them i think it best we should look at state purchased what we can do and again i think if we were to actually make some of these changes wed have under covert permanent like expanding tele health like getting rid of certificate of needless why should companies have to go in and argue against their competitors to add another health care bat or to add another piece of equipment when they need it we need to get rid of these things that make it harder to obtain the Actual Health Care Services themselves and when its harder to gain the services obviously the price goes up and i know you know manual we will probably always argue because i do believe that health care is a human right that we shouldnt have to pay for and that there is a good system before im on now but i do also enjoy the fact that you come out and i want to give voice to people who dont hold the same viewpoint. As i do so i want to say thank you so much for coming on and being that boys today pleasure always a pleasure having you on thank you very much for having me all right well everybody and that is our show for you today and remember in this world we are definitely not told that we are loved him up so i tell you all i love you i am i robot and im a me keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and night everybody. Max geysers financial Survival Guide liquid asset those that you can burn in zigzags quite easily. To keep in mind no acid to mean to inflation. Or. The sudden fullest and illegal takeover of a government by a small group. Rather than revolution results so just that small group the corporations when you have a tiny people who have all the power you have to have some means to make sure the rest of us dont get together and take it back. 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